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Exploring the shifts across data awareness, digital storytelling, and ethical AI
We’re continuing our 2026 season of Educast3000 with a deep dive into how digital transformation is reshaping one of our oldest educational institutions: the museum. In our latest episode, we chatted with Katherine Burton-Jones, Director of the Museum Studies Program at the Harvard Extension School. Katherine describes her…
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New Quizzes Next Button for Module Progression
Hello! Does anyone know of a way or workaround to have a next button show at the end of a New Quiz to progress through a module?
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Pop-up message in Classic Quiz - "Your time for this quiz has been reduced"
Hi there. We have a completely new and baffling problem that I'm hoping to get advice on. This morning, during exam QA checks, we started to get a pop up warning "Your time for this quiz has been reduced". It sees to appear just under 30 seconds into the quiz (in both Preview and take quiz mode), and can appear again…
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Learning Mastery controls
My Business School uses Outcomes for assurance of learning and we're manually turning Learning Mastery on course by course in the Feature Option settings for the relevant subjects. I have a few questions. Question1: Is it possible to enable Learning Mastery at a sub-account level, for just the Business School? Question 2:…
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English 401 Grant Writing
I believe all college level students should have to take a course in grant writing. What are your thoughts?
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Files management
After 7 years of building, iterating, and updating, there is a lot of detritus in some courses. Removing superseded pages, assignments, and discussions is easy enough but is there a clever way of identifying artifacts in Files that are no long embedded in pages, assignments, discussions, etc? It would be great to have a…
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Managing peer reviews
Hi there. I have just over 500 students in the course and we have an assessment that includes peer reviews on a graded discussion. Is there a quick and easy way to review students who have / have not done the peer review? The Peer Review screen that opens from the assignment is very limited with just 10 people per page, no…
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How do you encourage more meaningful student participation in Canvas discussions?
Hi everyone! As a grad student who's used Canvas discussions as a course requirement, I've noticed it's often hard to know where to contribute beyond replying to the first post. Threads get long and ideas get buried. I'm working on a capstone project exploring whether visualizing discussion structure in real time (thematic…
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Tracking completion of a module across courses
Hi everyone, Our institution has developed a non-mandatory Academic Integrity module that an instructor can include in their course if they wish. Unfortunately, we have no way of tracking a student's completion of a module across courses; students end up having to complete it for each course in which it has been included.…
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How do you start cleaning up a copy of a copy of a copy?
Hello, colleagues! I'm looking for strategies to help faculty clean up courses that have been copied multiple times, and now have outdated and broken content. Is there a "best" way to get started with a fresh version of a course, besides starting from scratch? Thanks for your insights!