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Converting Quiz Questions

Editors note: This post is the latest in a series from Tom Cotton, a Learning Designer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Tom has been working on a project to migrate content from the Canvas Learning Management System to Moodle and these posts describe some of the challenges faced and solutions found. The single biggest…
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Virtually Connecting at ASCILITE 2018
25 February 2019 By Wendy Taleo (Charles Darwin University) and Henk Huijser (QUT) At the recent ASCILITE 2018 conference we stretched the borders of learning via an open, online hangout with people not physically at the conference. ‘The purpose of Virtually Connecting is to enliven virtual participation in academic conferences, widening access to a fuller…
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Content Copycat

Editors note: This post is the latest in a series from Tom Cotton, a Learning Designer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Tom has been working on a project to migrate content from the Canvas Learning Management System to Moodle and these posts describe some of the challenges faced and solutions found. “We want you…
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A Design Challenge: Reflowing of Content

Editors note: This post is the latest in a series from Tom Cotton, a Learning Designer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Tom has been working on a project to migrate content from the Canvas Learning Management System to Moodle and these posts describe some of the challenges faced and solutions found. Moodle has…
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Broken on Import

he fact that Canvas questions can be imported at all is awesome. However it’s rarely totally straight forward. This is a deeper dive into the problems and the workarounds of just getting the file imported (not question content issues like broken images). Same error but different causes Canvas exports quizzes as QTI files (it’s in…
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Tricky Content

Editors’ note: This post is the latest in a series from Tom Cotton, a Learning Designer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Tom has been working on a project to migrate content from the Canvas Learning Management System to Moodle and these posts describe some of the challenges faced and solutions found. The challenge: “We…
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What teledvisor means and why it matters
Colin Simpson – co-convenor TELedvisors network When we* coined the term “edvisor” – for our context at least – we (Kate Mitchell, Chie Adachi and I) were looking for a term that captured our collective identity as learning designers, learning technologists, academic developers and the multitude of other titles people in our line of work…
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Outstanding book award to Matt Bower

Earlier in the year it was great to hear that one of our teledvisor community, Assoc. Prof. Matt Bower, had won the 2018 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Design and Development Outstanding Book Award for his 2017 book Design of Technology-enhanced Learning. Matt Bower announced the publication of his book on our TELedvisors forum last…

