Escape the Room: Canvas Carnival

[ryan_corris]

This will be a true escape the room experience housed within a Canvas course.  What happens if you don't escape in time?  No big deal!  You will have access to the course after the session and can escape whenever you want.

The course for this session will be housed within resources.instructure.com.  If you do not have an account for this instance of Canvas, you can save time by creating an account before this session. (Make sure to remember your password!)

What will you experience when you attend?

• An interactive course where you can explore some features in Canvas and participate to learn a little bit about the Canvas Community at the same time.
• Modules with required items and prerequisites.
• Mastery Paths with a twist.
• The integration of BADGR (yep, spelled correctly ) to award digital badges for completing modules.

Benefits of escaping:

• You'll have the most fun you've ever had while using Canvas (Disclaimer: While there is no evidence to back this up, you should still have a good time.)
• Experience ways Canvas features are used to help facilitate learning.
• You will be awarded with digital photo props you can use to share your escape on social media using #Instcon.
• You will be awarded several digital badges for completing modules through the challenge.

Your choice regarding ways to participate in the escape:

However you decide to participate is entirely up to you.  No matter what, you should be able to experience features within Canvas while also learning about the Canvas community.  

• Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner scenario: Rush through and experience the features in Canvas to claim victory and share your escape. (Disclaimer:  There will actually be no chicken dinner unless you take yourself out afterwards.)
• Valedictorian scenario:  Take your time and really explore the content of the course and delve into the learning.  This way may take a little longer with escape taking place after the session is over, but can still result in a successful escape.
• Hybrid scenario: This is a combination of the Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner and Valedictorian scenarios.  This does not have to be a 50/50 split.  You can decide what blend you want to your mixture.  If you are more competitive, you may lean towards the Winner scenario.  If not, you may gain a deeper understanding of the Canvas Community.

Itinerary for this session:

1. Brief introduction to session details (5-10 min)
2. You attempt to escape (20-25 min)
3. Q&A...or continue to try to escape if you are that into it (10 min)

Participant needs

• Your own device (while the course works in a mobile browser, I find it more enjoyable on my laptop)
• Paper and pencil to keep track of clues and notes for yourself
• Willingness to participate and ask questions

Once session is over:

• Course should be open so you can complete it and escape, review it, share it with others.
• If all goes as planned, I will be sharing a copy of the escape course to the Commons.  This way you can import it into your own course and explore how things are set up from a teacher perspective.  (You will have to integrate the BADGR LTI into your course prior to using the badges and you may need to create your own badges.)   

[jhough]

So excited about this! I think Escape Rooms are so neat. Is this a breakout session? I see that I can enroll on Cavnas.net, is that all I need to do?

Thank you!

[ryan_corris]

Hello  @jhough ‌!  Yes it is planned for a breakout session.  It is currently planned for Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:25 PM - 4:05 PM.  Guess I should have put that in the blog post, huh?  

[jhough]

Lol! It's all good. I know that session caught my attention and I'm pretty

sure I marked it. See you there! Super excited!

Jenny Hough

Digital Learning TOSA

Bethel School District - Spanaway, WA

@_JennyHough @BSD_diglearn

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

-Robert F. Kennedy

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:22 AM ryan.corris@lakotaonline.com <

[ryan_corris]

I realized I did not answer your second question  @jhough .  Sorry!  Canvas.net and resources.instructure.com appear to be two different instances of Canvas.  I have accounts on both and when I log in I see two entirely different sets of courses.  If you do not have an account at resources.instructure.com you may want to create an account there too.

Do you have any thoughts on this stefaniesanders‌?

[Stef_retired]

 @ryan_corris ‌ and  @jhough , the Canvas.net domain is exclusively for Canvas Network MOOC offerings—so yes, Jennifer, to participate in Ryan's Escape the Room adventure, please create an account at resources.instructure.com.

[ryan_corris]

Thanks stefaniesanders‌! And now we know the difference.   

[jhough]

Thank you!

Jenny Hough

Digital Learning TOSA

Bethel School District - Spanaway, WA

@_JennyHough @BSD_diglearn

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

-Robert F. Kennedy

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 5:55 AM Stefanie Sanders <instructure@jiveon.com>

[Boekenoogen]

I really want to try this in a hybrid course. I think it would be exciting to see how students would react.

[ryan_corris]

Hey  @jrboek !  A great thing about this is that there are so many different techniques you can incorporate into this type of activity.  You can also plan it for a relatively short period of time or something that could potentially take days or even weeks depending on your learning goals and timelines.  I am hoping to spark some interest and be able to get some wheels turning for people to see how this might be adapted for their classroom settings.

[bcrook]

Sign me up!  I'm in resources and ready to go!

[ryan_corris]

Great!  Looking forward to meeting you!

[timothy_maw]

Fascinating way to demonstrate some of the functionalities of Canvas. Escape rooms are fun and quite popular right now too.

[tellison]

Maybe I am overlooking it but I did not see this session listed at the time indicated on the Mobile App schedule.  Just wondering if it got moved or renamed.

[Stef_retired]

tellison‌, I still see this session listed on the web agenda at the same date and time, but I don't see it at all on the app. I'll do some checking.

[tellison]

stefaniesanders‌ thanks for looking into this.  Just setting up the app and gearing up for the conference!!!  Wasn't sure if this was a magic trick or not.

[ryan_corris]

Hey tellison‌!  Thanks for the heads up.  I will see what I can find out as well.  I am not seeing it in my app either.

[tellison]

 @ryan_corris ‌  thank you very much

[ryan_corris]

1. tellison  Not sure what was done, but between stefaniesanders‌ and my inquiries, the Escape the Room session is now showing up in the conference app. Please let me know if you are still not seeing it.  Thanks again for the heads up! Thank You ‌

[tellison]

 @ryan_corris  and  @sanders3  thank you very much.  It is there and now added to my schedule!

[ryan_corris]

Thanks tellison‌!  I look forward to meeting you!

[kona]

Signed-up and ready to go!

[ryan_corris]

Nice to know you will be there  @kona ‌ since your blog post on Hacking Mastery Paths was what inspired the Mastery Paths "twist" in this session.  I look forward to meeting you. 

[rsasso]

Definitely interested in this session!

[GideonWilliams]

Hey Ryan 

This looks amazing. Can I play this virtually?

I am sadly not at instructurecon this year

Gideon

[ryan_corris]

Hello  @GideonWilliams ‌!  Definitely!  I will direct message you with access information.  Don't want to post it here before the session.  🙂  

[rcamp]

Hey Ryan! Hope the session went well! Waiting with baited breath for the update with access!

[bcrook]

Thank you so much for this presentation and demo!  I know it must have taken a lot of work on your part and everyone was anxious to get to the next session.  But I spent time on the way home and still thinking about how to best make your idea into something we can use here for our faculty PD and new student orientation to Canvas!   So your time was definitely not wasted!  

Thank you again!

Cheers, 

Beth Crook

[ryan_corris]

Thank you for the kind words  @bcrook  !  It makes me very happy to know that you are still thinking about this! Let me know if you have any questions or there is anything I can do to help.

[jhough]

Yes! Same for us. We're already figuring out how to use this with our Summer Institute classes in a couple of weeks. Thank you so much! Fantastic!

[ryan_corris]

I love to hear this  @jhough ‌! If you have the opportunity, I would love an update after the fact to see how everything goes when you try this.

[ryan_corris]

Now that the session is over, here is some information that might be helpful.

• If you were unable to attend or just would like to have others take a look at the Escape course, here is the enroll link:   tinyurl.com/canvescape
• If you really want to dig into the course, look under the hood, and see how things were put together, go to the Commons and use the keywords:  canvescape, Corris

I would also like to send a shout out to stefaniesanders‌ for creating the initial course in resources.instructure.com so I would have a place to develop this course, Deactivated user‌ for patiently answering all of my questions prior to Instructurecarn, and heidiadams‌ for working with me on this endeavor and eventually presenting with me.  I would also like to say thank you to Lakota Local Schools (my place of employment) for deciding that canvas‌ was/is the best LMS for our school district and for the support that allowed me to attend Instructurecon.

If you do something like this with your students and/or staff, I would love to hear some details.  

Good luck!

[Stef_retired]

You're welcome, and thank you for your awesomeness,  @ryan_corris ‌!

[#34]

To sign up for resources.instructure.com, it is asking for a Join Code?  What would this be?

[ryan_corris]

Hey  @studentsupport !  If you go to tinyurl.com/canvescape and you do not have an account it will prompt you to create one.  If you do have an account, you should be able to sign in there and it should take you to the course. Please let me know if this works.

[Anonymous]

Hi  @ryan_corris  thank you for sharing this class!

The link you provided doesn't go to a live page. Is there another link to use?

Thanks!

[awilliams]

Hey  @Anonymous and  @ryan_corris . I can tell what happened. If a URL doesn't have "http://" on it, this Community platform thinks it is a relative URL. Ryan, I hope you don't mind, I took the liberty of fixing the link. Terre, give it a try now.

[Anonymous]

That worked! 

Thanks awilliams‌.

[ryan_corris]

No problem awilliams‌.  I have always used the URL without the http:// in front of it.  I did not realize the Community platform would not recognize it.  Thanks!

[GideonWilliams]

Ryan

Just finished this - Wow, what an amazing piece of work. Loved it! It must have taken ages!

The gamified approach works really well with the mix of challenges leading to the understanding of more features. Really liked the Mastery Paths feature and the hack element that allowed you to go back to it each time. Took me a little time as I might have competitively ticked Yes for all 3 answers at the beginning!

Loved the emojis - really brings the Modules and activities to life and breaks up the text. Also thought the quiz answer by posting the URL was a great idea - can see how that would work well with webquests. Super to see you trying out some different HTML approaches and the work on the Tabbed page is really impressive. I liked the Hint buttons too. I do wish there were some other bits of HTML that might improve the their design (instead of that large x in the pop up window)

Some thoughts for going on - only for you to have a play!

• I wonder what the courses would look like using the Quizzes.next quiz tool?
• When I wrote a badging course to introduce younger students to Canvas I wanted them to go to see the Badges they had earned. I wonder if this newish feature in Badgr might encourage them to view the badge as part of the Module flow? How do I accept evidence URLs in Canvas courses? - Badgr Support - Confluence 
• And for next year, you could present your work on Badgr Pathways!

Many thanks for sharing this with me outside of the conference

Gideon