Talking About…Learning & Teaching
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Online Marking in Canvas a CoSS Perspective Joe Berry, CoSS E-Learning Manager Joe Berry delivered a presentation to the Learning Forum at the Medical School this November. The talk focused on the experiences CoSS have had rolling out online marking in Canvas. COSS is ahead of the rest of the University in the scale of its online marking, and being the first UK University to use Canvas we are consequently blazing the trail for the whole country! As with any new system there are quirks and bugs to be uncovered but so far the feedback has been broadly positive from academics andadministrators. Generally, staff find the system easy to use, but concerns have been raised about the Canvas ‘philosophy’ which constantly encourages dialogue between the students and faculty. Nonetheless Canvas is showing potential both for faster online marking, and for more varied forms of feedback. Joe will be compiling a short list of feature requests at the end of this phase of marking to feed back to Canvas in the hope of tightening up some of the weaker aspects of the tool. As Canvas's first UK HE customer we hope to have some traction to mould the system to our needs. Please talk to your local E-Learning Manager to access Online Marking training available in your School. Your eLearning main contacts for each School are: 1. Business: Joe Berry 2. Education: Geraint Evans 3. Social Policy: Dee Partridge 4. Government and Society: Danielle Hinton CoSS has a range of Canvas Programme Specific Technical Help ranging from: 1. Canvas Staff Help: https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/3915 2. Canvas Student Help: https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/185 3. Technical Support Help Form: https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/185/files/76512
College of Social Sciences
Vol 7 No 1, 2013