Community

Problem statement: Most of our courses include synchronous (often face-to-face) workshops or events, around which the timing of Canvas content is based. For example, students are expected to complete Module 1 within the 2 weeks prior to attending Workshop 1, and follow-up assignment should be completed 2 days after attending Workshop 1. At the moment, we manually calculate and set module unlock dates and assignment due dates for each cohort based around their scheduled workshop dates. Proposed solution: Ideally the course pacing feature would allow us to enter a number of fixed course dates, and have other dates calculated around those, rather than on the start date only. E.g. Module 1 unlocks X days before a certain date (that is not the course start date). User role(s): admin,instructor,ta,designer ... View more

Problem statement: We currently manually schedule announcements to be sent to students based on the schedule of a course. For example, on the day when Module 2 of the course is unlocked in Canvas, we create an announcement to participants saying 'Module 2 is available, please start your learning' and delay posting until the date we have set Module 2 to unlock. This is very manual in courses with multiple cohorts running on different schedules, or where using course pacing. It's also currently not possible to trigger announcements based on when students complete learning activities asynchronously. Proposed solution: We would like to be able to have announcements triggered by other dates or actions in Canvas, rather than setting them manually. Ideally this would also update automatically based on magical distribution of dates when using course pacing. For example, on whatever day Module 2 is unlocked, a corresponding announcement is triggered. Better still, announcements could be timed based on when students do things. This would allow better support for asynchronous learning. For example, 2 days after a student watches a particular video in Canvas, an announcement would be automatically triggered to remind them to review their understanding with a follow-up quiz. User role(s): admin,instructor,ta,designer ... View more