New learning technologies at UBC undergo a rigorous process of evaluation and preparation before rolling out to the wider community as officially supported technology. Below are a few of the learning technologies currently being considered or assessed.
You can also see the status of recent pilots and integrations and read more about how formal pilots work at UBC.
Active or Upcoming Pilots
Hypothesis
The LT Hub invites any interested instructors to try out the annotation tool Hypothesis, starting in 2022/23 W2.
Hypothesis enables students to annotate and tag online readings in Canvas and elsewhere, then share their notes with each other for further discussion. The interactivity can help reading become more active and social. It can also help teaching teams monitor where and how students are engaging (or struggling) with the text.
Please contact us at the LT Hub if you would like to try out this new tool in the W2 term.
iClicker Cloud – New way to sync with Canvas
The LT Hub is looking for instructors to test iClicker Cloud’s new “Roster & Grade Sync” integration with Canvas. The testing will be available starting in 2022/23 W2.
The new integration automatically syncs all of the students in your Canvas course with your iClicker Cloud course. This automated syncing means—unlike the current integration—you do not need each student to manually join your iClicker Cloud course, i.e., to click the “iClicker Sync” button from your Canvas course.
The new integration continues to support two grade-syncing options with the Canvas Gradebook, so you can sync grades for each student either in one aggregate iClicker Cloud score column (combining scores from all iClicker Cloud sessions) or in multiple iClicker Cloud score columns (showing one score for each session).
Please contact us at the LT Hub if you would like to try out the new integration in the W2 term.
MyLA
The LT Hub is looking for instructors to test student dashboards in their Canvas courses with My Learning Analytics (MyLA).
MyLA gives students insight into their engagement with the course content, encouraging them toward behavioural patterns that can improve academic outcomes. Two dashboards are available, and instructors can choose what is appropriate for their courses:
- Resources Accessed: Students can see which files, videos, and other course resources are accessed most often by their classmates. Resources are colour-coded in blue if the student has accessed them or in gray if they have not. Resources are active links that students can immediately open to access anything they have missed.
- Assignment Planning: Students can view their progress and upcoming assignments in two different ways, either by “Progress to Final Grade” or “Assignments Due by Date”. Students can also set course and assignment goals to help with their planning and engagement.
Please contact us at the LT Hub if you would like to try out this new tool.