Workshops and Training

Canvas is Newcastle University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is an online learning platform where you can host all of your course content, study materials, and module and programme information. The aim of this short webinar is to provide you with an introduction to the Canvas environment.

• Introduction to Canvas (webinar)
• Creating and Managing Assignments (Canvas/Turnitin webinar)
• Online Marking and Feedback using Canvas (webinar)
• Introduction to Canvas New Quizzes (webinar)

Inspera Assessment is the University's new system for centrally supported in-person digital exams. Our Inspera sessions, suitable for all staff, cover the fundamentals of creating or marking a digital exam.

• Creating and managing exam questions in Inspera (webinar)
• Marking and moderating an Inspera exam with manually marked questions (webinar)
• Marking an Inspera exam with auto marked questions (webinar)

Turnitin allows electronic submission of assignments on Canvas with similarity checking (including online marking and grading via Turnitin Feedback Studio). This session will demonstrate how to mark and provide feedback on assignments submitted to Turnitin.

• Online Marking and Feedback using Turnitin (webinar)
• Creating and Managing Assignments (Canvas/Turnitin webinar)

ReCap is Newcastle University’s lecture and event recording service. ReCap allows audio and visual material, including the presenter’s voice, presentation slides and visualised documents, to be recorded, edited and published online.

• Using ReCap in Teaching Spaces (webinar)
• ReCap Personal Capture (webinar)
• Editing ReCap Recordings (webinar)
• Using ReCap for Video Assessment (webinar)

Incorporating reflection into your teaching practice is an effective way to help students understand their own learning processes and develop an awareness of their own skills. NU Reflect provides the tools to do this, ensuring students have the reflective skills to prepare them for a successful future.

• Using NU Reflect to Support Reflective Practice and Skills Development (webinar)
• Effective Personal Tutoring using NU Reflect (webinar)

Buddycheck is a Canvas integrated tool for peer evaluation of group work contribution. It can be used to enable students to evaluate their own and their peer's contribution to, and performance in, group work.

• Introduction to Buddycheck for Peer Review (webinar)

H5P is a tool that lets you create simple online content such as interactive videos, quizzes, games and presentations. This training webinar offers a 30-minute introduction to H5P looking at some of the benefits of using the tool, followed by an optional 30-minute task where you can try creating some H5P content yourself.

• Creating Interactive Content Using H5P (webinar)

This is a comprehensive online training resource developed for all Newcastle University colleagues and can be accessed 24/7 from your Canvas dashboard.

• Canvas Orientation Course (self-enrol)

This course provides you with some of the core skills and techniques for embedding accessibility into your teaching and learning practice, and in making your digital resources accessible to everyone.

• Accessibility in Practice (self-enrol)

This short, self-paced course is available in Canvas and will introduce personal tutoring best practices and responsibilities for the role. 

• Personal Tutoring (self-enrol)

This short course takes around one hour to complete and guides you through the steps needed to make your own podcast, from initial ideas through to uploading your first episode.

• How to Create a Podcast (self-enrol)

Are you developing a new blended module for the first time, or rethinking the delivery of a current module? This course follows the general structure of an in-person module design workshop with a number of short activities - you can complete these independently or with your module team. At the end of this course you will have prototyped a blended module design that you can begin to implement.

• Module Design: ABC to Canvas (self-enrol)

LTDS also offer module design as a bespoke workshop for schools or stage teams - please contact ltds@newcastle.ac.uk to discuss your requirements.