5 Tips for Improving Accessibility
Accessible design helps every student. This post gives you five practical tips and a short routine for checking your Canvas pages.
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Mastering Personalisation Tactics
Personalisation does not mean a separate course for every student. This post offers four practical tactics and a way to keep them manageable in…
Tips and Tricks for Creating Playlists and Choice Boards
Playlists and choice boards give students a say in how they learn. This post shares practical tips for designing both, and shows how to…
A Minimum AI Learning Entitlement: What You Can Build in One Canvas Week
A HEPI guest post proposes a minimum AI learning entitlement for every student. Here is what you can realistically offer in one Canvas week,…
Why Canvas Feels Clunky and What a Gamified VLE Could Do Differently
Canvas is reliable, but its inconsistent page building, exposed modules page and bolted-on gamification limit what you can design. Here is where it falls…
WCAG 3 Is Still a Draft: What to Do in Your Canvas Course Now
WCAG 3 is a working draft open for review. This calm explainer covers what that means, what the W3C has and has not said,…
Tell Students Where They Stand on AI: An Assessment-by-Assessment Statement in Canvas
Students should never have to guess where they stand on AI. This post shows how to add a short, specific AI use statement to…
The Engagement Cycle and How to Use It
Students rarely disengage in the middle of a task. They drop away in the gaps. The Engagement Cycle gives you three stages and nine…
One Page vs Pre-In-Post vs PANDA: Choosing a Structure for Your Canvas Week
A one-page week, Pre-In-Post and PANDA each shape how students meet your content. This post compares their strengths and limits and shows how to…
5 Tips for Building Effective Rubrics in Canvas
Five practical tips for HE academics on designing Canvas rubrics that make standards clear, speed up marking and give students feedback they can act…
