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kona
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Kona Jones is Director of the Teaching & Learning Center and Faculty Academy Coordinator at Richland Community College in Decatur, IL. She is responsible for developing faculty training materials, overseeing faculty professional development, providing instructional design and pedagogical support to faculty, and is responsible for assessing online courses and initiatives. Kona loves teaching and is an adjunct instructor of statistics and developmental psychology, and in 2019 she was awarded Adjunct Faculty of the Year. 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.
Most Liked Posts
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 semester,...
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 other ...
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 dedicate...
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 "Assignment" (as i...
Most Recent Posts
@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/2769...
@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 the quizz...
Hi, @John_LaneWe've been using Copyleaks as our primary plagiarism detector since June 2022 and have been happy with it. It's not flashy, but it does what we need it to do and at a very reasonable pri...
Greetings! I've never served as a Bb Admin, but I've used Bb as a teacher and am currently using it as a student. I've also worked with a number of adjuncts who, in any given semester, might be using ...
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Thanks for engaging in the community in 2021! Your use of ed-tech in your professional career and educational journey continues to inspire us.
2021-12-08
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Thanks for fulfilling your role as a Canvas Coach in 2021! Your guidance and support are unwavering. You are a big reason why our community thrives.
2021-12-08
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You submitted 2 ideas! The fact that you took time to identify gaps or needs in a product tells us you have agency in seeing ed-tech solutions evolve.
2021-10-07
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You have submitted your own idea and participated in discussions for multiple ideas. You are becoming an integral voice to our internal processes.
2021-10-07
