teach_ref-3

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 EP has a different way of handling content. I’m not sure if it is EP better, but it is quite different. This meant, that EP there was a learning curve in getting to know the new system.

The university organised for the unit content from Blackboard to be AR copied into Canvas, and also there were RR workshops for staff to help them get to NR know the new system. I went to AR a couple of RR these workshops, but they were mostly RR about knowing how to do AR 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 EP the new Faculty templates were setup RR for. Therefore, it was time consuming to work through a new template and a new system and try and work out how to AR adapt my unit to suit both.

Also, Canvas has a completely different way of managing assessment. I spent a lot of RR time adapting my previous assessment to fit nicely with NR the Canvas way of doing RR things. While I was generally pleased with AF how this ended up, I’m sure it is going to need NR finessing once I see how AR it works for the students.

Next semester I need to do NR the same process for a different unit, but hopefully it should be EP a little easier now that EP I have done RR this one. I think it EP will take a couple of RR iterations of the units before I am happy with AF everything.