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Jonathan Cowan
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Originally a secondary Language Arts teacher, I now also teach Into to Digital Literacy and Advanced Digital Literacy courses in addition to 8th Grade Language Arts. I uses Canvas to support a mastery based assessment model for all the courses I teach.

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As the end of the year is approaching, I'm saddled with reconciling a mastery based course (through Canvas modules) with the factory model I'm--and I'd assume many, if not most of us here--are working...
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I like the idea of clearly defining the standards that were met and giving them weight within the final grade. I'll try something similar when I start linking the modules in my course to mastery outco...
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That detail you brought up--in addition to the recycle idea, which makes a lot of sense--'blank for unsubmitted,' would be clutch. As it is, the orange circle can show up if an assignment has been man...
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To start, I'm totally in favor of this idea in terms of having a way to explicitly communicate to students which assignments must be resubmitted. However, in the absence of such a feature, I've been d...
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I think if you could toggle the feature whether or not zeros are generated for all assignments, or just past due assignments, it would make the most sense in terms of flexibility. Also, when toggling ...
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Hey Alex,I don't work for Canvas or anything. That was just an imaginary mock up of how I'd envision using it. I agree, if not enough of a given comment were showing, that would be less than ideal. An...
Sep 19, 2016 7:03:44 AM
Here's a little mock up I did of what the UI could maybe look like?
Sep 16, 2016 7:39:31 AM
That detail you brought up--in addition to the recycle idea, which makes a lot of sense--'blank for unsubmitted,' would be clutch. As it is, the orange circle can show up if an assignment has been man...
Feb 4, 2016 9:56:03 AM
To start, I'm totally in favor of this idea in terms of having a way to explicitly communicate to students which assignments must be resubmitted. However, in the absence of such a feature, I've been d...
Feb 4, 2016 8:34:08 AM
I think if you could toggle the feature whether or not zeros are generated for all assignments, or just past due assignments, it would make the most sense in terms of flexibility. Also, when toggling ...
Oct 7, 2015 2:18:47 PM

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