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kdickso
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My full bio starts below, but I've really enjoyed being a part of the Canvas community. However, I'm finding that the new quicker page load times in the Khoros community do not make up for the loss of information in the transition and the lack of organization or intuitive design. I'm all for better graphic design and ease on the eyes, but total loss of ease in navigation defeats the purpose. You may see far less of me in the community because I do not have time right now to find everything all over again.
I've been teaching since graduating from Duke back in 1989 with an A.B. in Classics and got started with using LMS's in 2002 (while finishing my Ph.D. at Emory) with the now defunct AllLearn (Alliance for Lifelong Learning, a joint venture of Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities). I often smile fondly when people complain about how bad their particular LMS is because they didn't see some of the early ones and have fun with supporting faculty remotely around the world while they labored with "Promethean" issues (and if you know about old LMS's, you'll get that reference!).
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In the endless quest to declutter my Canvas course sites and eliminate unnecessary "call-outs" to separate pages I've been playing with HTML, specifically Anchor Tags.For the unaware, Anchor Tags are ...
Kelley,This post is so full of useful information and I really can NOT thank you enough. Of particular interest to me is the UDL site because one of my primary beliefs/goals as a teacher is to always ...
Many thanks to Ken, Sam, and Erin!!!I will out myself as the faculty member who begged the most excellent Sam Timme with help for this and I appreciate both the discussion initiated by Sam which helpe...
Thanks laurakgibbs and @G_Petruzella ,I think that the group self-sign-up is probably the best way to go for now and I look forward to playing with that.I want to make sure I haven't given the wrong ...
Well that explains some interesting videos that showed up when I projected youtube from links I had embedded in class. On the large screen. the VERY LARGE screen (see below).Mostly Colbert and SNL, th...
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Yikes. Epoch Times and PBR. Thanks for the smile.I'm always worried about what will pop up on YouTube. It wasn't an issue on the classroom computers because of the browser not storing things day to da...
Nailed it. So many issues, but the auto-adjusting window kind of obviates the advantage of the static toolbar.It seems that we needed to be even more specific about the issue, because it felt obvious ...
This is a good idea, but sometimes I really do prefer points (especially when working with teaching assistants this can be helpful).I'd amend the idea to giving the OPTION to do EITHER points OR perce...
I freely admit that, despite upvoting this, I will get cranky if it is used on me in a class where I am not taking a quiz, but want to fast forward through redundant training materials on items I am a...
Excellent point @ryan_corris Did you catch that just by testing it? I'm now wondering if running the test links feature would catch that or not.I will definitely have to be on the lookout for that i...
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2021-12-08
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2021-08-26
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