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Late bloomers we are, but we will catch up...
It has taken some time to encourage students and faculty to use mobile apps when accessing our Canvas instance, but we have made a lot of progress. This push came after we encouraged users to use the Calendar feature in their mobile devices. Our curriculum revolves around class calendars, and they needed a convenient way…
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What $25,352 worth in contract cheating looks like.
Abstract: The hardest part about contract cheating is quantifying the problem. We can't do much about the former, but we're trying to change the latter. That is, we are trying to quantify contract cheating in hopes of learning more about assessment design, motivations of cheating, and the black market of 'contract…
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Studying Student Experience Online
Reading responses to the https://community.canvaslms.com/polls/1421-which-do-you-prefer-online-vs-on-campus?sr=search&searchId=69a4fb40-a03a-4831-8cb9-d71c3361751b&searchIndex=0" modifiedtitle="true" title="Which do you prefer: online vs on-campus? poll has been very informative and reminded me of a study I was involved in…
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Video Walkthrough of Canvas Essentials & Other Canvas Resources
Here's a playlist of 4 videos (totaling a little over an hour) that walk folks through the essential features of using Canvas to develop courses: Canvas Essentials - YouTube. These videos are used in support of our Canvas Essentials course for faculty. And here are some other Resources for Building Your Course in Canvas in…
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I Tried Using Shorter, Low-Stakes Assessments for One Semester and Here's What Happened
Hi Community! I have been teaching in a higher education graduate school for more than fourteen years and until my fall 2017 semester, I had been calculating my students' grades based on an 80% paper and a 20% multiple choice exam. This was tradition. This was simply the way things had always been done. Sure, one paper…
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Innovative Use of Canvas in the Music School at Northwestern
At Northwestern University, instructors in the music school are using Canvas in an inventive way to critique "voice juries". They used to go through reams of paper and frantic handwriting sessions to provide feedback to students, but have streamlined the process using Assignments and the Speedgrader in Canvas. The new…
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Opportunity to Learn About Virtual World Use in Education
The 2017 OpenSimulator Community Conference will be held in the OpenSimulator Community Conference Grid (or OSCC Grid) virtual world AND streamed live (@ https://gaming.youtube.com/c/AvaconOrg/live) on December 9th and 10th. In turn, even if you have never been in a virtual world, attending the OSCC event will enable you…
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Thoughts on beginning early alert efforts
Student retention is a concern in probably every college and university in America. We wouldn’t be in education if we didn’t feel it is a transformative experience and benefits not only the individual, but their family, community, and society as a whole. Many students start college and fail to finish often leaving them…
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Easy to Use Google Sheet for Interpreting Your Roll Call Attendance Report
This document is meant to provide an easier way for faculty to see their Roll Call Attendance results with a minimal amount of effort. It's in many ways a supplement to my longer document in the Community, Using the Roll Call Report: A Guide for People Who Do Not Use Excel, where I tried to explain how to use pivot tables…
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Does a student need to enable particular sharing settings to allow the instrucor to view the Google
Does a student need to enable particular sharing settings to allow the instructor to view the Google Docs in a group collaboration? When the instructor goes to groups < selects the group < selects view group home page< collaboration < the blue colored text of the title of the google doc The Instructor is prompted to…
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Should We Standardize Online Education?
This past week this article, Standardization in Online Education, came by my social media feed. It was particularly interesting to me because we are knee deep in discussing the very issues that are discussed in this article. I have very mixed feelings about standardization of online education. I want course sites to adhere…
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Building Culture with Adjunct Faculty
How would you describe your current adjunct faculty culture? Is it disjointed, disconnected, disenfranchised, or stagnant? Would you like your culture to be one of connection, development, community, and support? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We had the privilege of presenting at InstructureCon 2017, “Building…
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Automated report of group sets, groups and members in a course
Attached Excel workbook is able to download data from Canvas (exclusively using Get API calls) to create an overview of all group sets, its groups and its members in a course. Group sets and groups are displayed (vertically) in column A and B (see Settings). Additional information received from Canvas (for each group set,…
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No Need to Blame Canvas
Resources for InstructureCon 2017 presentation - No Need to Blame Canvas - coming soon!
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Will iOS 11 Screen Recording Help Education?
I have to admit - I am a bit of an Apple junkie/fanboy. In a past life, I was lead on mobile initiatives for a private university of 9,000 students, so I had test devices where I would install beta builds as they became available after Apple's annual Developer's Conference. My current role doesn't have me focusing on…