GSA eLearning News

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  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

  This week's Tech Tip shows student and staff how to collaborate in real time on Office365 documents using OneDrive. Collaborations can include Word, Powerpoint and Excel spreadsheets, or notes using OneNote.  For help or advice regarding Office 365 collaborations, or for any other learning technology queries, please contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

 This week's Student Tech Tip demonstrates how to install and use Grammarly. Grammarly is a writing assistant app that can help you and your students to eliminate grammar errors and make written text clear and engaging. You can choose to use Grammarly on the web, or install one of the Grammarly apps to use from your device. The video below demonstrates both options.  If you have any questions about this topic or learning technology in general, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

Our second Student Tech Tip demonstrates how to access LinkedIn Learning, an online learning platform that offers courses in creative subjects such as architecture, graphic design, photography, and video editing. The courses are created by industry experts. LinkedIn Learning is available to both students and staff. If you'd like to share this video with students on your course, please visit How to Access LinkedIn Learning on Planet eStream and select Share>Share by Embedding. If you need more information on how to embed a video into Canvas, please have a look at Embedding media content into Canvas .

This Student Tech Tip shows GSA students (and staff) how to apply for a free Miro Education account.  This procedure has recently changed, so GSA students and staff no longer need to supply evidence of their status with their application. Simply fill in the form on Miro.com  using your GSA email address and wait for Miro to activate your account.  Stay tuned for more Miro tips, but in the meantime, visit the LT Help for Students Miro page , or to boost your Miro skills with interactive Miro workshops, check out the Miro Academy offerings. For further help or advice, remember you always can contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

 This week's Two Minute Tech Tip demonstrates how to add automatic, live captions to your Zoom meetings in real-time. That means your participants will be able to turn closed captions on and off during your meeting.  There are two different methods for providing automatic, live captions in Zoom. You can use Zoom's live transcription service or Otter.ai's live transcription service. There may be errors in the captions provided by either service as they are both provided by an AI program. Choosing between Zoom Automatic Live Transcription and Otter.ai Live Notes Transcription Whether you choose to use Zoom's live transcription service or Otter.ai's live transcription service will depend on whether you are recording your Zoom meeting in order to upload it to Planet eStream or Canvas.  If you're recording your event, you'll need to provide a closed caption file (.SRT) to upload alongside your video, as captions will not be captured in your Zoom recording. You ca...

  In this Two Minute Tech Tip we show you how to add student extensions to Assignments in Canvas. Canvas takes care of the admin, making adding new dates easy. Extensions can be added for any number of individuals, groups and sections, each with their own unique dates.  For further information on setting up assignments, please see this step-by-step guide on the Using Canvas for Staff course .  If you are managing many assignment dates, Canvas also has a useful bulk update function. Details of this can be found on the Canvas Guides.  For help with setting up or editing assignments, remember you can contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

 This week's tech tip demonstrates how to set up a Canvas assignment so that students will be able to submit both an embedded version of their Padlet, as well as a PDF version of their Padlet. By submitting the PDF version of their Padlet alongside the embedded one, you'll be able to check that the Padlet has not changed since the due date of your assignment.  Students will need guidance on how to embed their Padlet into a Canvas assignment, and how to export their Padlet as a PDF. To help with this, we've created a Student Tech Tip video that you can embed in your assignment instructions, which demonstrates how to embed a Padlet into an assignment, and how to export their Padlet as a PDF: You can grab the embed code for this video in Planet eStream . If you have questions related to setting up assignments or any other learning technology related topics, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk  

This week's tech tip shows staff how to generate attendance reports for your Zoom sessions.  For a step by step by step guide to the process you can also see this guide on the Using Canvas for Staff course. For help with Zoom or any other of GSA's learning technology services, please contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

Did you know that you can set up a Canvas assignment so that peer review can be automatically assigned? In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tip, we'll show you how. If you have any questions about this or any other learning technology topic, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tip video you can find out how to set up a rubric and add it to your assignment to Canvas. Rubrics make your grading criteria clear to students, and can be used to provide feedback in Speedgrader. For more information about setting up assignments and using Speedgrader in Canvas, please take a look at our guidance on Canvas . If you have questions about this video or any other questions related to learning technology, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

This week's 2 Minute Tech Tip demonstrates how to add subtitles to a video that you have uploaded directly to Canvas. By following the steps in this video, you can make sure that any videos you upload to Canvas are accessible.  For more information about producing transcripts and subtitles, please take look at our guidance on Canvas.   If you have any questions about this topic, or any others in our 2 Minute Tech Tips series, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

  This week's two minute tech tip shows staff how to create chapters in Planet eStream videos. Chapters are useful to split up longer videos into segments and can be used to direct students to specific points within a film.  For help with this or any other learning technology issues, please email us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

  This week's 2 Minute Tech Tip offers staff some tips on building community online. The video shows staff how to set up a film night using Planet eStream and Canvas, with an embedded Padlet discussion for users to chat about the film.  Head over to gsa.planetestream.com to search the diverse range of films and documentaries available to students and staff. Need some suggestions? Check out the 'Library Picks ' category for some staff curated playlists. For help this or any other Learning Technology advice, please contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

This week's 2 minute tech tip shows you how to pre-assign students to break-out rooms in Zoom. For help with this or any other learning technology queries, remember you can contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk .