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CindiKerns
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Instructional Designer
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Hi! I'm an Instructional Designer in the Educational Technology Services Department at Messiah University. In my role I provide leadership and support for the development of innovative and effective teaching and learning practices using information technology. I collaborate with faculty and staff on pedagogical and instructional design issues related to technology in support of web-enhanced and multimedia-enhanced courses in face to face, fully online and hybrid environments. My goal is to use technology to create effective, student-centered experiences.

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Please consider a feature that will allow students to export discussions and related threads. This can be a helpful resource at the end of the course. Professors will want the ability to release discu...
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Greetings Canvas Community!  I am an instructional designer at my institution, not a programmer. I've been asked to look into an issue that's created when we cross-list courses. When we cross-...
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In our testing we have found that the LTIs treat the class as one entity without regard to section numbers. This has led to the drastic step of not combining any sections unless they are cross listed ...
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Thanks for this analogy. It helps me see it from a different viewpoint. I appreciate your clarity and the perspective this brings to the discussion. I'll share this post with my colleagues as we c...
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Hi, I know this can be frustrating. There are a couple of things to check. Do you use the course import tool? We often use the "select specific content" option because we don't want to cop...
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Hi, I know this can be frustrating. There are a couple of things to check. Do you use the course import tool? We often use the "select specific content" option because we don't want to cop...
Nov 05, 2025 10:53 AM
This happens so frequently at our institution that we made a video about it. Just have the instructor assign it to "everyone else" and the scores should reappear.
Nov 03, 2025 12:34 PM
Hello, Academic integrity is a challenging issue that is only becoming more so. At our institution we do not enable the Quiz Log by default. Instructors have to enable it at the course level. I encour...
Oct 31, 2025 06:17 AM
Hello! This sounds like an excellent use case for Canvas Scheduler. Does your institution have this tool enabled? Many of our faculty use it for group presentation sign-ups and advising appointments.  
Oct 27, 2025 06:03 AM
Hi Livia, This doesn't always work but you can try typing the word undelete at the end of the URL for the home page of the course. See this blog post for more details.
Sep 25, 2025 08:06 AM

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