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kona
Kona Jones
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Kona Jones is a Professor of Psychology and Statistics at Galen College of Nursing. Her passion is student success and, more specifically, assessing how different initiatives can improve online student retention. Kona was technical editor of the 2022 Canvas for Dummies book and is a Canvas Advocate, contributing extensively in the online Canvas Community and beyond. She has a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology Leadership, M.S. degrees in Quantitative and Cognitive Psychology, and Undergraduate B.S. degrees in Biology, Psychology, & History.
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Right now attendance in Canvas isn't that useful/effective. Below are the ways it could be improved:When viewing a specific student's information allow faculty to see a snapshot of the whole s...
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas
Right now students can only view their most recently added submission to an assignment. This means that all previous submissions to the assignm...
Right now setting Permissions for different course and account roles is very difficult because many of the permissions are tied together so you can't have one permission without also having the ot...
I'd love to have more variety with the admin reports. Yes I know you can get pretty much everything through API calls, which we do a lot of, but for your average admin user (one one without a dedi...
I wasn't sure how to word the title, but it would make training (and explaining things) a lot easier if "Assignments" (as in the tab where you create your gradebook assignments) and "A...
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What: InstructureCon UnconferenceWhen: Thursday, July 11th 3:30 – 5:30 PMWhere: Level 4, Zeno 4603-4610
What is an Unconference?
An unconference is a participant-driven informal meet-up that’...
Congratulations! I look forward to seeing how this positively impacts Instructure!
@BethCrook -- What a great blog and so many amazing memories! Thank you for sharing!
@Margherita -- I had to do some major digging, but I finally found the updated link to that resource -- https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Higher-Ed-Canvas-Users/Hacking-Roll-Call-Attendance/ba-p/...
@hallale -- unfortunately, there isn't a great way around this as long as you do online quizzes in an unproctored environment. One thing we use at my school is Proctorio, which can lock down t...
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