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Hello Wei: You pose an interesting question that encompasses agreement on standards, enforcement of them or auditing for compliance, and the reality of how much capacity is available to address these issues. The course template used at our Community College includes a comprehensive syllabus across many pages. This is where the student contract, organizational policies, and course- specific criteria and policies are addressed. So the underpinnings of every online course are standardized within the syllabus. The current process is that every new course must be developed and then reviewed by the Faculty Success Center to ensure every instructor has a firm understanding of how Canvas works and the expectations of the college for instructors who teach F2F, online or hybrid. Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) is a bit more tricky to capture in an online course and that is what several of the replies in this thread address: policies to demonstrate that instructors are interacting with students in ways that increase their learning. Our college is currently auditing online courses for RSI using a rubric to measure it. This process has just begun so it will be interesting to see the data from this work. Under discussion at the same time is how deal with non-compliance, provide additional faculty support and what new policies might be developed as a result. ... View more

A very helpful suggestion Linnea - thank you! Meg ... View more

I admire that your Academic Senate felt strongly enough about integrity to establish a subcommittee. Thank you for this post: The ideas are clear and easy to implement. ... View more

Thank you to the team working on this feature - it is very much appreciated! Meg ... View more

Another reason for having the ability to securely switch off communication between students is the Student Orientation required in California as part of the funding formula. Instead of making hundreds of individual courses for each unique student, having one course that students are enrolled in for the purpose of Orientation requirement, would be a significant reduction in course sections. At our college we recently discussed that by making a course shell for each new student the amount of "single use" or not used at all course shells will exponentially increase, and potentially cause excess weight on the Canvas instance. ... View more

Hi there: We recommend faculty have a script when they record Announcements. This would be an alternative to captioning. The script could be used as a transcript for the Announcement, which would be accessible.  ... View more

I agree that the solution of asking institutions to change their definition of privacy when course sections are combined would inform students clearly that they will be seen by other course sections. Making that language very clear might be a challenge, as institutional changes seem to require so many levels of edits and approvals 🙂 So that is one solution that could be addressed at the institution-level. As a learning designer, I have a concern that students believe that they can attend all online courses anonymously. Learning communities are an important part of how we all learn; and to give students the expectation that to be anonymous in every course is an acceptable way to complete their learning would be short-changing their learning experiences. ... View more

Currently you can add Alt text to an image by clicking Edit, then click on the image, then the image icon in the Rich Content Editor. Add the Alt text in the window that opens. It really would save time if that same window opened every time you add an image to the course! ... View more

With the intense focus on Accessibility in online courses making it so that the Alt text window opens as soon as an image is added would be a HUGE help! Meg ... View more

Thanks for the speedy answer Kona! I was hoping to hear Mark but look forward to hearing Jared Stein (ALWAYS so interesting!) and Mitch MacFarlane. ... View more

I am sure that this will be a wonderful session Steve - all the best to you! Meg Y. Coastline Community College ... View more

Kona; thank you for the swift response! I appreciate the confirmation that the time allotted is for each attempt. The Until date has not  occurred, so I keep coming back to the idea that because the student used the 90 minute stated time on the first attempt that she was barred from the additional attempts. Then again, there could also be "user error". Lol! I love puzzles so I'll keep looking. Have a wonderful holiday weekend celebrating the freedom we enjoy in this amazing country. Meg ... View more

Thank you for this helpful (and timely) post! I have an instructor with a quiz set for 3 attempts and timed for 90 minutes. A student used 90 minutes on her first attempt and could not access the quiz for another attempt. Does the time set for a quiz mean a "total for all attempts" or does it mean that amount of time for each attempt? I am thinking it is a total for all attempts but I cannot find documentation in the Guides or Community to support that. Can you point me to the answer within Canvas? Meg ... View more

This is a wonderful post: we all learn so differently that the challenge is to create the invitation to learn and engage students on many levels. Thank you for including links - I plan to investigate 🙂 Meg ... View more

These are useful and quick videos and exactly a strategy I often recommend to instructors to inform and engage students in their online courses. Thank you to the folks who are working on these! Meg ... View more

Thanks for sharing – I enjoyed the first few posts on the Canvas FastTrack Series! Meg ... View more