In the leadup to the commencement of semester, most of my time was spent setting up teaching materials in Canvas. Canvas is the new learning management system (LMS) at QUT. It has a much better user interface than blackboard, and
it
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has a different way of handling content. I’m not
sure if it is
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better, but it is quite different. This
meant, that
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there was a learning curve in getting to know the new system.
The university organised for the unit content from
Blackboard to be
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copied into Canvas, and
also there were
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workshops for staff
to help them get to
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know the new system.
I went to
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a couple of
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these workshops, but
they were mostly
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about knowing
how to do
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things with the new interface, which I didn’t find too difficult.
The problem for me, was that most of my class materials were not in a lecture-tutorial Powerpoint slide format, and it was
this format that
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the new
Faculty templates were setup
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for. Therefore, it was time consuming to work through a new template and a new system and try and work
out how to
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adapt my unit to suit both.
Also, Canvas has a completely different way of managing assessment.
I spent a lot of
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time adapting my previous assessment
to fit nicely with
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the Canvas
way of doing
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things. While
I was generally pleased with
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how this ended up, I’m sure it is
going to need
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finessing once
I see how
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it works for the students.
Next semester
I need to do
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the same process for a different unit, but hopefully
it should be
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a little
easier now that
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I have done
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this one.
I think it
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will take
a couple of
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iterations of the units before
I am happy with
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everything.