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Digital Technologies

Tools and systems to help deliver effective learning and teaching

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Discover the digital education tools that power learning and teaching at Â鶹´«Ã½. Here you'll find the support and guidance you need to create engaging learning experiences, manage assessment, improve accessibility and support your students. Not sure where to start? Take a look at our Digital Toolkit for inspiration.

ReCap

ReCap is an interactive lecture capture resource which captures audio and visual material and makes it available online.

NU Reflect

NU Reflect, now integrated in Canvas, provides the tools to support personal, professional and academic reflection.

Vevox

Vevox is an audience interaction system that helps make your presentations and lectures more engaging and effective.

Turnitin

Turnitin Feedback Studio allows electronic submission of assignments, similarity checking, and online marking and grading.

Inspera

Inspera Assessment is the new centrally-supported software for secure, present-in-person digital exams.

Buddycheck

Buddycheck is a Canvas integrated tool for peer evaluation and assessment of group work contribution.

Canvas Ally

Ally is a tool that will help you to make digital learning content more accessible for students and is now fully integrated into Canvas.

Placements

The Placements system facilitates assessment, reflection, and communication between students and supervisors during placements.

H5P

H5P allows you to create richer Canvas content, with interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, games and more.

Open Badges

Open badges show a range of learning achievements, which students can earn and share on social media and employability websites.

NU Learning Analytics

Jisc’s learning analytics tool provides Personal Tutors and colleagues with a user-friendly and visual dashboard of students' data.

Digital Accessibility

Digital accessibility is about ensuring that systems and learning resources can be used by as many people as possible.

Numbas

This free web-based system helps you build exams to challenge your students, complete with videos and interactive diagrams.

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Artificial Intelligence

It is our role as educators to explore and investigate the opportunities AI provides to our students’ educational experience.

Reading Lists

The Library provides access through Canvas to online reading lists for many of the University's current modules.

Creating Video and Audio

Video and audio are excellent mediums for creating fresh and engaging asynchronous content for your students.

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