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Ratio of Instructional designers to faculty/courses at institutions
Hey folks, this is tangentially related to Canvas, hope that's ok. I work at a small medical college with about 50 faculty and 600 students. I am interested in the ratios at other colleges/universities (of any size) between Instructional Designers (in-house or contracted) and the number of faculty/courses they support? My…
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Course Retention Policies
My team is working towards a retention policy for Canvas courses. We just switched to Canvas a few years ago, and as such haven't had to think about old courses much before. My questions is: what is the retention policy at your campus? How long do you keep old courses?
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Load Homepage / page based on date feature
You know how we can set a module to be visible after a certain date? It would be really great if there were a way we could do this with pages. For example, if I have a page or module set for each week, the system would auto-load tthat one as the main page. Alternatively, it would jump down the module list to the module…
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New to Canvas
Personally, I have been using Canvas since 2018 in the K-12 world. I am now in Higher Ed (Technical College) and I am responsible for assisting/training our faculty on Canvas. My big hurdle now is how to convince others to make the leap. The site used a Moodle for many years prior. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions…
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Test logs, analytics and cheating by pasting in answers
There have been several posts asking questions about test logs and cheating. The standard Canvas support answer seems to be that the analytics are not intended to be used to detect cheating. My question is why not!!!! As an example I had a student enter a 250 word answer and the time log indicated that answer was inputted…
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Do you just delete unused Canvas shells/empty courses?
Greetings, Fellow HIED LMS admins, do you just delete unused and/or empty Canvas shells at some point in the semester? We currently have hundreds every semester. We load in Canvas courses very early, often months before the start date, which means that many of the courses get cancelled, and all enrollments get deleted. But…
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Can Instructors apply templates to their courses?
Is it possible to make templates available for instructors to self apply to their courses via Course Copy or something like that? We currently share templates via Commons, but this is a pain because we need to replace the package there every time there is an update. We cannot add users to templates (nor would we want a…
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Can Groups ever be set to be able to view other Groups' posts?
hello 🙂 Trying to see if there's a way for Groups can view each others' posts in a Discussion. I understand this goes against some of the setting of Groups, but is there a way? Many thanks, J
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Request for Feedback: Learner Portfolios, Learning Journals and Course Workbooks
We are a group of Learning Designers and EdTech colleagues who have been building our own platform called Stackle over the last 2 years. We've evolved into a set of Canvas integrated features focusing on simple and easy to use Learner Portfolios, Learning Journals and Course Workbooks. You can find out more…
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FREE Webinar with ReadSpeaker and Respondus
How Aims Community College Provides Secure and Accessible Assessments May 11, 2023 2:00 PM By utilizing Respondus and ReadSpeaker, Aims Community College has been able to provide their learners a way to have their assessments provided in a secure, accessible environment. In this webinar, you will hear from Cheryl Comstock,…
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Padlet Assignment
Hi everyone! I'm struggling with the Canvas Padlet Assignment. I can: * Create a single Padlet Assignment, in which all users enrolled in Canvas can contribute * Create a Padlet Assignment per user, in which each user gets a blank template Padlet to complete, this is what I'd like to set up for the academic's course since…
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Using Canvas for Student Affairs
Hello, has anyone used Canvas for things other than academics and learning? Our Student Affairs and Engagement department are wanting to replace some of the processes/tools they have now. For example, our students use the Ready Education app to track event attendance, post buy/sell of books and other class materials, send…
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Commons Pros and Cons
Hello, You can use Commons for yourself and for groups. I am trying to share with our faculty the pros and cons of using Commons vs. other methods of sharing content. Why would they use Commons for themselves and not simply Copy to from one course to another? What's the advantage or appropriate use of Commons vs. Copy…
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eBooks in Higher Ed
We are working on a pilot project to use eBooks/eTextbooks and possible use of publisher content for select courses at WCU during the Spring 2023 semester. If anyone is using the LTI to integrate the use of these eBooks and publisher content through Canvas, would you be interested in sharing any information about your…
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Turnitin Discontinuing Unicheck
So, Turnitin has purchased a competitor to remove it from the field once again. Unicheck will be discontinued. Are there any other Unicheck users out there? What are your plans moving forward? Are there new plagiarism checkers out there? Is anybody doing a good job at recognizing AI created papers?