"student support" blog posts
Plato AI Pilot at the University of Liverpool
We have just completed a pilot of Plato where a sample of 12 first-semester modules trialled the solution within their Canvas environment. Across the University and the sector more broadly, there has been a palpable nervousness regarding the embedding of AI tools into long-standing systems like Virtual Learning Environments. Plato allowed us to explore this space in a positive, controlled, and highly visible way.
Posted on: 16 January 2026
AI in Learning: A look at upcoming features within our institutional educational technologies
More and more AI is being introduced to enable new ways to do things and opening up new areas of understanding. The same is true for our educational technologies with Instructure (makers of our institutional VLE ‘Canvas’).
Posted on: 19 September 2024
AI in Education
Tunde Varga-Atkins attended a symposium on 1st May 2019 at Birmingham’s ThinkTank and provided this report.
Posted on: 30 May 2019