Canvas is here  

• Canvas is now our central learning environment replacing Blackboard across the university.  

• Courses being taught from the start of the academic year should be built and published in Canvas by the Unit Lead responsible for delivering the course by Monday 8 September.   

• Your local eLearning team can provide Canvas training and guidance:  
  
  Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health   
  
  Faculty of Humanities  
  
  Faculty of Science and Engineering  
  
  Non-Faculty University areas  

• For technical support, you can raise a ticket via Connect.   

• Blackboard will be switched off on Friday 17 October and will no longer be available to colleagues and students. Make sure all training and assessment activity is completed in Blackboard before this date to avoid losing any work.   

• If you have teaching activity expected to continue in Blackboard past this date, you should contact your local eLearning team as soon as possible.  

• For more information and guidance documents, visit our central Canvas microsite.   

Please continue to use the Student Engagement and Attendance System this academic year. SEAtS allows teaching colleagues to log their student’s attendance at scheduled on-campus teaching activities. 
 
Live codes 
 
Please prioritise the sharing of live codes in SEAtS wherever possible, to improve attendance accuracy. To support this, the system will now default to show you the live code first. You will have to select ‘static’ from the drop down to get the static code. Live codes refresh every 30 seconds and reduce the chance of students sharing codes with those not attending.  
 
Lunch and Learn sessions 
 
You can sign up to one of several Teams sessions to refresh yourself on using SEAtS. Visit the SEAtS SharePoint site, select your chosen date and ‘add to my calendar’.  
 
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) 
 
Academics with access should share codes with new GTAs who teach, whenever this is required. Once a GTA is fully onboarded and has a staff email address they can complete this form to get their own access.

Support & Resources 
 
Please support new colleagues who are joining the University and may be unfamiliar with SEAtS. You can also encourage them to attend a Lunch and Learn session.

•  For everything you need to know, visit the SEAtS SharePoint site.
• If you have any questions, email the support team at attendance@manchester.ac.uk.  

The UK Government has increased the tuition fee cap for home students from £9,250 to £9,535 for this academic year. Our tuition fees have risen in line with this change. 

We are aware that some students have applied to Student Finance for the previous loan amount (£9,250). This creates a shortfall of £285. 

Students affected can still complete registration, but they must update their Student Finance application to the correct loan amount. If they do not, they will be personally responsible for paying the £285 difference later in the academic year.