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The Praise Wheel is a fun, interactive activity you can add to your Canvas course. It works like a digital spinner—when you spin the wheel, it lands on a compliment, complete with confetti for extra celebration. Using the Praise Wheel brings the power of positive reinforcement into your teaching. Compliments boost motivation and help students …
Customisable Question Mark Cues are a simple and powerful tool you can use in your course. These graphics act as reflective cues to highlight areas where learners might need extra support or where you want to prompt deeper thinking.
Canvas now includes a Canvas dyslexia-friendly setting that changes how text looks, making letters easier to tell apart and reading more comfortable. You don’t have to have dyslexia to use it—anyone can turn it on if it makes reading easier for them. Dyslexia is when the brain processes words differently. This can sometimes make reading, …
Some generative AI tools like Otter.ai, Copilot and ChatGPT, include features that allow you to record or transcribe meetings, conversations, or spoken content. At MIT, the use of AI-powered transcription tools is not allowed. This applies to both staff and students, and includes recording or transcribing meetings, classes, or private conversations using AI tools. This …
You can use generative AI tools to save time, generate ideas, and create teaching resources while staying in control of the final content. Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and DALL·E can support you in various aspects of your teaching journey. These tools can save you time, help you explore ideas, and improve the …
Generative AI (GenAI) tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, GrammarlyGO, or Google Gemini and many others are now widely accessible to students. These tools can quickly generate text, summarise articles, and polish writing to a high standard. While AI can support learning when used ethically, it becomes a concern when it replaces original student work. For you, …
This guide will show you how to locate and interpret Turnitin’s AI writing detection results Turnitin includes a built-in ‘AI writing detection’ tool that helps identify content that may have been written by generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and others. It is important to remember that this detection is only one source of information. …
Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant designed to help you with a wide range of tasks. It can help you write your assessments, class activities and rubrics to name a few. If you provide good prompts (insert: how to write good prompt page here), Copilot AI will produce the information you want within seconds. It’s …
Step 1: Access Copilot through any of the following platforms. Step 2: Sign In with Microsoft Account You should have already signed in as soon as you sign into your MIT account if not follow these instructions Step 3: Start Using Copilot If your prompt is not clear, Copilot will ask you a series of …
AI tools like Microsoft Copilot are becoming more useful in education. One of the best ways to use Copilot is to help you write high-quality assessments. However, it’s important to remember that assessments must always match the learning outcomes in your course. This article shows you how to use Copilot effectively, with examples, tips, and …
This page explains what Microsoft Copilot is, how it works within Microsoft 365 apps, and how lecturers can use it to save time and improve their everyday tasks. Copilot is an AI-powered assistant developed by Microsoft. It is designed to support your work by helping with tasks like writing, summarising, generating ideas, and managing information …
An AI prompt is the instruction or question you give to an artificial intelligence tool (like Copilot) to get a response. You are guiding the AI on what you want it to do — whether that’s generating a lesson plan, rewriting a paragraph, creating an image, or answering a question. Think of it like giving …
Follow these simple steps to use a dyslexia friendly font for your Canvas courses. Canvas now offers a dyslexia-friendly font setting accessible within user accounts, allowing students to customise their reading experience. To enable it, navigate to your account settings and toggle the use a dyslexia friendly font option, have a look at the step-by-step guide. …
This short video shows how to add a Lucid visual activity to Canvas as an engaging task for learners. It’s a clear method to embed Lucidspark or Lucidchart visual tasks directly inside a Canvas page or assignment. You’ll see how to open the Lucid integration inside Canvas through the Rich Content Editor or during …
This short video shows how to add Lucid activities to Canvas assignments. If you use Lucidspark or Lucidchart in your teaching, this is a quick way to link student work directly into Canvas. It helps keep everything in one place and easy to mark. In the video, you’ll see how to set up a new …
