When me and Livia Scott are out and about training SU Officers over the summer, one of the common post-its in the “minor moans” exercise tends to be about inconsistent use of LMS/VLE systems in universities.
You know the sort of thing – a given student on a given module might log in to find lecture recordings, assessment briefs and deadline details all in place and up to date – only to find that for another module, there’s either nothing there or what is there is out of date.
So at InstructureCon, the edtech conference that I’ve been at all week, I made it my business to pop along to Cottonwood 9 to catch the excellent session run by Liza Zamboglou and Stephanie McCorvie – a couple of educational developers from Queens University Belfast.
Having first implemented the Canvas VLE in 2019, by last year some of the feedback they were seeing from students when trying to access information – especially in time sensitive circumstances- was that they really were frustrated by differences between each of their modules.
