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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 …
This short video, Learn the basics of Lucidspark, shows how to use Lucidspark, a virtual whiteboard ideal for brainstorming and team work. In just a few minutes, you’ll see how to start using the main tools and board features. The video explains how to open a new board, add sticky notes, shapes, and connectors, …
Start diagramming with confidence! This short video titled Getting Started in Lucidchart guides you through essential steps to begin using Lucidchart effectively. In just a few minutes, you’ll learn how to create, customise, and share diagrams. In the first part of the video, you’ll discover how to open a new blank diagram and use the …
This is a growing list of digital tools that can help lecturers teach more effectively and engage students in different ways. Each tool includes a short description to help you quickly find what suits your course needs.
Sit in the Question is a simple but powerful strategy that encourages students to pause and stay with a complex or open-ended question, rather than moving straight to an answer. It helps students become more comfortable with uncertainty, giving them space to reflect and explore different ideas. This approach builds curiosity, patience, and deeper thinking, …
How to add text comments, images, videos, links, equations and other multimedia elements to provide detailed feedback to your students. How can this help you? Using the text editor tool within SpeedGrader you can provide detailed feedback to your students, enhancing communication by allowing you to emphasise key points, organise information more clearly, and include …
The new Enhanced Rubrics feature is now available, giving rubrics a cleaner design and some long-awaited improvements. This update doesn’t change how rubrics work—but it does make them easier to read, faster to edit, and more flexible to use across your course. What’s new? The first thing you’ll notice is the streamlined layout. Rubrics now …
Answers to frequently asked questions about course visibility to students before and after a course starts and ends. How long do students have access to their past courses after the course close date? When can students first access their course after it’s published? Students can see the course once: If you want to restrict access …
Most Canvas courses at MIT need to use the MIT Canvas Standards (MCS). This is how you import it into your course. Prepare Your Course Make it easy to import into the right course by giving your course a nickname. If you’ve delivered a course multiple times, you’ll have lots of courses in your Canvas …
Part seven of the MyKoha series provides guidance on giving feedback to students using You Said, We Did. It’s important to let your students know that you’ve taken on board what they’ve said. At MIT we do this using a mechanism called You Said, We Did. How does this work? Students give you the lecturer …
In part six of the MyKoha series find guidance on how to conduct a survey with your students Getting feedback from students is important. It lets you know what’s going well and not so well, and it’s an opportunity for our students to be heard. Surveys have been made easy, there’s very little for you …
Part seven of the MyKoha series provides useful tips on how to interpret feedback from students and consider an action plan as a result of the survey feedback. The survey is now done! What’s next? Surveys are only useful if the results are used to inform change. Read the feedback you received and then carefully …
