Teaching Tools

Canvas Essentials: Studio

Canvas Studio is a tool for uploading and sharing video content inside Canvas. Studio also has a built-in screen recording tool so you can create video messages, podcasts or any other screen recording within the tool itself. Both students and teaching staff have access to Studio. As you’d expect, Studio allows users to upload videos […]

What is Slate? 

Slate is a new course unit information management system, intended to replace the existing course unit information publishing system called CUIP. Designed and developed in FSE by James Marsh and Steve Pettifer. 

Canvas Essentials: Discussions

Like Blackboard, Canvas has its own Discussions tool that enables discussions between the entire course unit cohort or a group. The basic functionality is not significantly different…

Canvas Essentials: Assignments

This article will compare the Assignment tools within Canvas to Blackboard. This is not intended to be a training piece but a overview of features to give you some idea as to how it differs from Blackboard.

peerScholar – Overview

Peer Scholar is a peer evaluation tool. This article provides an overview of the different types of evaluation activity that you can build in Peer Scholar and what the workflow process looks like for students.