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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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584
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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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@tommy5 Yea. This is a common issue for folks coming from Blackboard. Sometimes people are able to adjust their assignment grading to work in Canvas' limited grading structures and sometimes I...
@lmt0045 Can you clarify which specific tool? I know some of the tools have different names in different regions. Maybe you can take a screenshot of the exam to help clarify.
@lmt0045 I just want to clarify. When you say "exam column", is that column connected to an assignment or a quiz? I ask because columns only exist in relation to graded activities (discuss...
@CarlyCoccaro Yea...that's about all of the troubleshooting I can think of other than going to Instructure Support. Did you put in a ticket with them?
@CarsonHGross From my memory and testing, that drag and drop feature is just gone after the page is reloaded. The documentation only mentions drag and drop being available for empty modules (which...
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