By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 12 February 2025 Staff and students from other universities can now log in to Lund University's Canvas as external users. Here you will find out how external login works, which Swedish and international institutions are supported, and how to invite new users and solve any login issues. Who can log in extern

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/external-login-canvas - 2025-06-29

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 17 April 2025 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a generative AI tool that can, for example, answer questions, summarize text, and perform basic translations. It was previously known as Bing Chat. All employees and students at Lund University have a Microsoft 365 account that provides access to tools like Word,

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/copilot-employees-lund-university - 2025-06-29

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 17 April 2025 Right now, almost 500 students are using the university’s storage service LU Box. However, LU Box is mainly intended for employees at Lund University. Students will no longer have access to LU Box starting on 5 May 2025. Students using LU Box will receive an email with information about what t

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lu-box-will-close-students-5-may-2025 - 2025-06-29

Published 28 September 2020 A video lecture – a video in which you have recorded your lecture with images in a PowerPoint presentation - can be exactly the learning support that your students need. However, an endless series of slides with an anonymous-sounding voiceover in an excessively long video can be unbelievably boring. What can you do to get your message across in your video? Check out the

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/three-tips-your-video-lecture - 2025-06-29

Published 15 April 2021 Foto: Nick Fewings på Unsplash As a teaching staff member working in Canvas, you are responsible for ensuring that the content you share with your students is adapted for accessibility. In this article, you will find tips from The Project group for web accessibility on what to bear in mind for all types of information published online and on digital platforms. You will also

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/5-tips-making-your-course-canvas-more-accessible - 2025-06-29

Published 23 June 2020 How can students view each other’s work? According to Sahar Valizadeh, there is no right or wrong answer, just different strategies! By Sahar Valizadeh  Many people ask how to go about allowing students to access each other’s work. Sometimes it is because the course structure is based on students working on different themes with the expectation that the result will be shared

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/do-you-want-your-students-be-able-view-each-others-work - 2025-06-29

Published 26 January 2021 Photo: Damian Zaleski on Unsplash Canvas has a new Rich Content Editor which aims to make your life a bit easier when it comes to editing and formatting text, adding images and working with embedding different type of files. You can find the Editor almost anywhere you have the option to write such as in Announcements, Discussions, Pages, Assignments and Quizzes.  The new

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/new-rich-content-editor-here - 2025-06-29

Published 3 February 2021 Photo: You X Ventures by Unsplash Padlet can be thought of as an online bulletin board that can be used for communication, interaction, and collaboration. You can create posts with text, pictures, links, or video by clicking on the Padlet surface and writing. Different ways to use Padlet Another reason why Padlet has become so popular is that it is so simple to create sur

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/padlet-now-available-lu - 2025-06-29

Published 23 June 2020 A course in Canvas is never better than its structure. Without structure it easily becomes a course that students find difficult. Björn Fritz, director of studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences and Canvas coordinator, describes his thoughts on course structure: by Björn Fritz What are the traits of a good course? During the past year’s work using Canvas, there have b

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/you-do-know-its-structure-counts-right - 2025-06-29

Published 3 August 2020 Don´t let the technology and the digital learning environment be a challenge that disturbs your students learning processes!  Did you know that there is a new guide for students by students about the most common tools such as canvas, zoom etc? Don´t waste your time on writing explanations - take part of the guide here:        Log in to Canvas Canvas student guide

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/do-you-need-instructions-your-students - 2025-06-29

Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Covid-19 has forced us to find alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. The most common ways to deal with this have been to try to squeeze the traditional methods into a digital format, reduce the time available and add remote “surveillance” of the students. These alternatives have worked

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-option-covid-spring - 2025-06-29

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 8 March 2021 As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home exa

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/easier-formative-assessment - 2025-06-29

Published 8 March 2021 In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of e

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom - 2025-06-29

Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability tha

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/importance-extended-writing-time - 2025-06-29

Published 4 March 2021 In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given diff

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/oral-examination-zoom - 2025-06-29

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 4 March 2021 Picture: Unsplash “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2025-06-29

Published 8 March 2021 At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2025-06-29

Published 4 March 2021 When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-06-29

Published 4 March 2021 During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2025-06-29

Av maria [dot] videll [at] korcentrumsyd [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Videll) - publicerad 26 mars 2020 Körcentrum Syd ser att körlivet just nu påverkas hårt av corona-pandemin. Mängder av körövningar och konserter ställs in och många körledare som arbetar som frilansande musiker ställs utan försörjning. Körsångare saknar sjungandet och gemenskapen. Publiken stannar hemma framför teven och datorn. I d

https://www.korcentrumsyd.lu.se/artikel/ett-paverkat-korliv - 2025-06-29