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Ed Tech Showcase – Part 4
Today was the third part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days. When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 4 In the session, we discussed many visual and interactive options for displaying content and communicating within the classroom. There are a myriad of…
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Why InstructureCon?
I have been working in Higher Ed for about 13 years or so (most of it in Instructional Technology of some sort). I have been fortunate enough to go to many, many conferences over the years. I have spoken at conferences, worked with product management/marketing on their presentations, helped organize local conferences, etc,…
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Bypassing Requirements/Prerequisites
Wish you could bypass requirements/prerequisites for a single student and give the student a zero or let the student go back later to complete the assignment? Using this hack, originally suggested by @tom_gibbons you now can! Problem If an Instructor is using requirements and prerequisites in their course and a students…
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Ed Tech Showcase – Part 3
Today was the third part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days. When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 3 In the session, we discussed many visual and interactive options for displaying content and communicating within the classroom. There are a myriad of…
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Student Performance Texts
If you follow the Release Notes then you probably noticed that Canvas is trying out something new called "Student Performance Texts." These texts are to help students better manage their course work and applies to students who have provided their phone number in their Canvas profile. For right now there are only two types…
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Student Activity: Understanding Weighted Gradebook
Students often have difficulty understanding weighted (percentage based) gradebooks and how their grades are calculated. Luckily Canvas has "What-if" grades to help students better understand how their grades on different assignments impact their grades - How do I approximate my assignment scores using the What-If Grades…
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Discussion Questions for Statistics
Writing discussion questions for certain subjects can sometimes be a little tricky. Why you might ask? Because in my experience some subjects lend themselves to discussion and multiple shades of gray (so no right or wrong answer). An example of this is when I taught Intro to Psychology. It was a piece of cake to write…
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3D Printing and Education
Disclaimer: I am, by no means, an expert in this, and I'd consider myself a "newbie". This has been a fun and interesting hobby for me so far, and I continue to learn more and more about it. About a month ago, I saw a posting on Facebook from a friend at church whose son had been to our local library to use their 3D…
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Moving from the Transactional LMS to the Transformational LRM
I could not agree more.... "It is unfair (if common) to blame the longstanding LMS providers for the current limitations of their systems, as they were solving what was then the transactional task asked of them by universities: replicate the transaction of the traditional classroom in an LMS. Those transactions were the…
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A Successful Canvas Faculty Development Program
I just want to send out huge thanks to the entire Canvas Community! You and your contributions to this community have been instrumental in the success of one of UW-Madison's Faculty Development programs, the Active Teaching Lab. The entire Spring 2017 semester of UW-Madison's Active Teaching Lab has been focused on…
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Student Centered Learning in Canvas
Student Centered Learning (SCL) is a teaching method that can be generally defined as a change in the focus of activity (or instruction) from the Instructor to the student. All types of courses from traditional to hybrid to online can utilize SCL. Key characteristics of SCL instruction include: * Actively engages students…
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Mastery Paths flow with buttons
I've created a Mastery Paths module that includes only differentiated paths. It's working, but the flow is stunted by the lack of buttons once students complete the associated assignment or content page. My current workaround is to include explicit information in the Mastery Path assignments about scores and how students…
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Ed Tech Showcase – Part 2
Today was the second part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days. When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 2 I wanted to write a quick follow up to that. In the session, we discussed many audio/video options for displaying content and communicating within the…
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Hacking Roll Call Attendance
Situation: You have a class where you'd like to take attendance twice a day and use the Canvas Roll Call Attendance tool. Problem: Unfortunately Attendance in Canvas doesn't directly allow you to take attendance twice a day. Solution: Use the three attendance options (present, absent, late) and badges to hack your way to a…
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Memories from Khaki 2015
A little over two years ago I got a chance to participate in Canvas' first Project Khaki! The purpose was to bring together some of the most active Canvas users (of all types and from all areas) and talk about how to make Canvas even better! It was an amazing experience that I've been reminiscing about as @James prepared…