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john_morris
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Adjunct instructor since 2009. Previously in various private industry roles for several decades. Previous user of Blackboard, started using Canvas full-time winter 2015.

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I'll take a small risk here by sharing what I've done (an Instructor for Instructors). After the university launched Canvas in January for "early adopters" they accompanied with standa...
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Now that I have a clearer idea of the distinction between a question group and question bank, I can see I also didn't appreciate the difference between "linking" and "adding" (or &...
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Thank you stefaniesanders​! I had figured out the Rich Text Editor step, but for some reason it was not working. Now it does. I'm all set to make inviting course home pages!
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As an instructor... I can say there are three things that keep me from attending a faculty development workshop. I will share these and perhaps they have some similarity with your own faculty... many ...
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Deactivated user​, I work at an institution that is in the midst of adopting Canvas from Blackboard. The bias of my colleagues for not learning Canvas because, "that's not how we did it in Bla...
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Most Recent Posts

Maybe this is an oversight? While "Edited [date] time" appears in the New Discussions forum, when opening the same discussion in Speedgrader, that information is missing.My TA comments on all ...
Oct 4, 2022 3:10:00 PM
My "New Discussion" assignment is a post-once-and-reply-twice format. Speedgrader groups all of any specific student's entries (initial posts and their replies) into a single screen so the...
Oct 3, 2022 3:02:03 PM
Notifications about new Discussion Replies can get overwhelming, and so I suspect many students turn them off. The new threads organization offers an opportunity to truly make Discussions better learn...
Sep 27, 2022 1:05:04 PM
Good news, the data can be downloaded from Canvas. It requires that you enable the Learning Mastery gradebook, do this in Settings. If you have created your rubrics in Outcomes but hadn't enabled ...
Aug 21, 2021 1:17:35 PM
@Stef_retired Yes, of course... right after I hit Post!
Sep 13, 2020 4:57:33 PM

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