GSA eLearning News

  This blog has moved! You can now find us at the GSA Library Blog , where our eLearning posts are categorised under the 'eLearning' category. 

  This week's Tech Tip for students shows you how to top up print credit at  printcredit.gsa.ac.uk . Credit allows you to print from MFDs in the library and across the GSA campus.  For help with printing or any other learning technology issues, students can contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk  

 The GSA 2021 Graduate Showcase site is now ready for students to begin uploading their work. This week's  Tip pulls together some of the support options available to students and details where students can get further help and assistance with uploading and presenting their work to the 2021 Graduate Showcase.  The  Graduate Showcase pages on the Student Intranet  is the main hub of information for students regarding the showcase and presenting your work online. At the bottom of the Graduate Showcase page you will find the Graduate Showcase calendar which is useful to see a timeline of key dates over the next few months.  For an introduction to this year's showcase for students, see the introductory information which you should also have received via email. Other Information available on the  Graduate Showcase pages of the Student Intranet  includes advice on website building, documenting your work, utilising social media, writing artist's statemen...

One of the primary uses of the Canvas quiz tool at the GSA is for gathering feedback and opinions from your students. This feedback can be used to improve course design and evaluate course delivery. The best quiz type for gathering feedback and opinions from your students is an  ungraded survey .   Creating an ungraded survey To create an ungraded survey: Visit the Quizzes link in your Course Navigation menu and click on the + Quiz button Give your quiz a title and enter instructions for students in the text box below Choose  Ungraded survey  as your quiz type Choose whether you would like to keep responses anonymous and whether students can have multiple attempts at your survey Choose whether students should be able to review their own responses and untick 'show students correct answers' Give your survey a due date and fill in the 'Available from' and 'Until' dates. Adding questions to your survey The next step is to create your questions by clicking on the que...

 This week's Tech Tip demonstrates how to create a mind map in Miro. Students starting the research process can use mind maps to identify all of the themes, sub-themes and facets of interest with regard to their research topic. Miro makes this process easy, and you can use a mind map template to get started. One of the benefits of creating digital mind maps is that you can add lots of different kinds of media to your mind map. The video below demonstrates how to get started: If you have any questions about mind mapping in Miro or any other learning technology related topic, please contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk  

  In this Tech Tip we show students how to update their notification settings on a course by course basis. This process also applies to staff who wish to reduce the amount of Canvas notifications they recieve to their GSA email address. Staff may wish to customise notifications for specific courses where they are enrolled as a teacher, but do not want to receive the communications to students from other staff. We do not recommend turning notifications off completely, as you may miss out on essential information, rather we suggest to use a daily or weekly summary email to condense multiple course notifications into one. 

This week's Tech Tip is useful for staff and students: we're showing you how to share your Miro boards! Miro is collaborative online whiteboard that you can use for planning, workshops, exhibitions and more.  If you haven't use Miro before, please check out our other Tech Tip on Applying for a Miro Account  to get started.  Sharing your Miro Board