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brendan_lake
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An amazing Instructure Community member

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Many of our fully-online courses (particularly in science and math) require that students draw a diagram or process in their assessments, and when combined with proctoring tools, this becomes a compli...
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I’m not sure if this has been addressed, but for group discussions, please consider preventing any students not grouped in that particular group set from posting to the discussion board.  Currently if...
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For the discussion redesign, please consider changing the "Reply" button text to Post, Share, or another label.  Many of our discussions are open ended, like a "Please share your questions about the f...
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Yes, that's correct.  In my opinion, "Reply" is appropriate when responding or adding to another post in the discussion area, but the top topic/prompt area would be better served by a broader term lik...
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For the discussion redesign, please consider creating an “automatic credit for participation” option similar to how Canvas surveys provide automatic credit for submission. For instance, when a student...
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Most Recent Posts

Hello, fellow educators! Many online classes feel isolating for both students and instructors.  As a result, we may ask learners to post introductions, but students typically don't read about or remem...
Jun 30, 2022 9:28:28 AM
Yes, that's correct.  In my opinion, "Reply" is appropriate when responding or adding to another post in the discussion area, but the top topic/prompt area would be better served by a broader term lik...
Jun 25, 2021 1:16:38 PM
I’m not sure if this has been addressed, but for group discussions, please consider preventing any students not grouped in that particular group set from posting to the discussion board.  Currently if...
Jun 11, 2021 2:18:50 PM
For the discussion redesign, please consider creating an “automatic credit for participation” option similar to how Canvas surveys provide automatic credit for submission. For instance, when a student...
Jun 11, 2021 2:02:37 PM
For the discussion redesign, please consider allowing the option to enable both a student to-do AND a due date with different dates. If an instructors wants to have one date assigned to discussion ori...
Jun 11, 2021 1:48:34 PM

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