About

james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Posts:
590
Solutions:
204
Likes Received:
743
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.

Most Liked Posts

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...
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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 ...
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@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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Most Recent Posts

@AngelaHetrick1 I was testing in a course where many students have more than a single section, but the total count was still adding up to more than the total number of section enrollments. Here y...
Nov 03, 2025 07:07 AM
@SamGarza1  My TA in my testing course does not see the differentiation tags when assigning Assignments or in the Gradebook filters.
Nov 03, 2025 06:55 AM
@SamGarza1 Agreed. Some Teachers will want TAs to be able to use the tags, even if they do not want them to have the power to add/delete/manage.
Nov 03, 2025 06:38 AM
@SamGarza1 I just tried using the template for the first time and it was not a pleasant experience. The documentation is API focused and a bit technical for many of our users. I was also surprised...
Nov 03, 2025 06:32 AM
@MelanieDeverMC You may be interested in checking out the community's Canvas Ideas space. While this forum is for users to get help from other community users, that space is for providing Inst...
Nov 03, 2025 05:46 AM

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