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james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
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600
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Bio:
James Whalley is a senior instructional design technologist in the Center for Teaching Innovation. Prior to joining CTI, James was the director of online education in the International College of the University of Suwon. In that role, he oversaw training, as well as course development and implementation through the Blackboard learning management system. Including his time at USW, James taught in South Korean universities for more than six years, focusing on instruction in ESL and film. James holds a bachelor’s in theater arts with an emphasis in film and a master of business administration from Humboldt State University. He also holds a master of education in instructional design from Western Governors University.
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I'd like to echo @mwolfenstein in questioning what's going on here. If Streamline the experience and reduce the cognitive load of modules is too big a lift, why did you even let folks vote...
Hello @AllisonHowell,
Thank you and the team for all your hard work in getting us new features. I'm excited to bring this new feature to our professors here at Cornell.
I've done a little ...
@SamGarza1 When is “immediately”? We want time to make a decision and contact the CSM if we need to keep it on. This is our first week of semester and people are already building discussions with ...
You may also want to check the Idea Conversation precursors, as I remember some of these same ideas that had hundreds of upvotes suddenly only had dozens of 5 stars. It would be nice to recapture all ...
Groups are a way for instructors to organize students into working groups. When a group is created, they are given their own area within Canvas that is like a mini-course. In the Group space, group me...
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Bummer. I just tried grabbing the self-enroll links for groups, and the buttons all technically have the same link, so it's not even like you could just put the urls for the current set of groups ...
When using New Quizzes...that seems like the case. It seems they need to add some more granularity for notification settings.
Yep. July 19 - https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Release-Notes-2025-07-19/ta-p/647753
@AMye1 If you are using the New Files Page layout, you should be able to use the checkboxes and then the download button to bulk download.
@lperkinsESHS23 I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure there is no way to retain the connection to an assignment after a group is deleted nor is there a way to hide old groups for students.
Are you...
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