Since we have to find out who is using Canvas, let's introduce ourselves here.
I am Leslie Bofill from the Florida International University School of Medicine. We've been on Canvas since April 2014. We are using it for pretty much everything from curriculum to student groups. It's been great for us.
Hi Helen. Great to meet you!
At our school, we are on Canvas while main campus is in Blackboard. We expect that if/when they move to Canvas to continue to have our own instance of Canvas.
Hi! I'm Lorie Shuck, from the Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine. IU has had Canvas available for all courses since 2014. As an institution, we are currently migrating away from Sakai (branded Oncourse at IU) to Canvas. The IU School of Medicine moved our four years of med ed courses to Canvas with this academic year, so we've been fully on Canvas since this past June.
Hi All,
I'm Julie Youm from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. I joined this group months ago and didn't see much activity so dropped out for a bit, but am excited to see you all here! We launched our instance of Canvas last summer and launched all of our core courses/clerkships on it. We have tried an integration with Ilios, our curriculum management system, but it has been less than ideal. I would love to hear how others are dealing with this.
Thanks!
Hi Leslie
We're building fully interactive courses on Canvas, aimed at clinicians. Going well for the most part but glad I have a few engineers on staff to make things more interesting and interactive. Started using in earnest in late 2014.
Wondering if anyone has done much in the way of community blogs - maybe alongside a course but more open than discussions.
Barbara
Hello All,
I am John Willingham from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Thank you for creating this group.
At Emory we are in the process of running a Canvas pilot and anticipate that we will get the go ahead from leadership to begin moving to Canvas this summer.
I am working on strategies for moving our medical school courses into Canvas. Our curriculum is designed to have a high level of integration across disciplines and across years. To that end, the first phase of our MD curriculum, Foundations of Medicine, is taught essentially as one giant 18 month long course. Consequently, there is a tremendous amount of content in this course, more than 2500 files, items, pages etc. are contained in this single course.
The hierarchical nav structures in Blackboard accommodate this amount of content reasonably well because you can nest folders.
Translating this into Canvas however is proving to be quite a challenge. I am hoping some of you may have some suggestions or experience with this that you could share with me.
One of the first responses of course is, 'Can you break the content into multiple courses?'. It is possible that we may ultimately take that route but the med school has sound pedagogical reasons for organizing their curriculum in this manner and I want to explore all possible methods of accommodating their existing methods before resorting to asking them to make major changes to the way they organize their teaching materials.
So, any thoughts? I don't know how common this method of organizing med school curricula is but if you know of other schools that do something similar please share.
Thank you!
John Willingham
Educational Analyst II/Blackboard Administrator
Faculty Services
Emory Libraries and Information Technology
Emory University
404-576-2777
Hi John:
I am Maria Rose from Alpert Medical School of Brown University. I haven't checked this page in a while but wanted to see how you managed your move to Canvas. It sounds like your course structure in Blackboard was similar to ours.
We piloted Canvas back in 2011 when we needed to move from Blackboard which didn't render on iPad at the time. Because we adopted a one site per class system in Blackboard, we easily migrated structure-wise over to Canvas. Our office serves as the main conduit for all preclinical course materials for consistency and we design/upload everything here. We have a sandbox site for course leaders to create modules and other content that we copy into the class site when ready.
Last year we moved all clerkships to their own Canvas sites. Our department designed the sites to standardize them and trained the coordinators on editing. We integrated these sites with Oasis to automate enrollment to allow one permanent course site for each clerkship.
I would love to learn how you ended up organizing your site and would also be happy to answer any questions.
Maria Rose
Instructional Tech Manager/Preclinical Curriculum
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Box G-M108
Providence, RI 02912
P. (401) 863-2006
Hello, my name is Melanny I'm enrolled in Ashford University. I'm 24 years old, and a stay at home mom to 2 sets of beautiful twins. I currently live in California and am going for my bachelors for child development.
Greetings from Mississippi,
I'm Eva Shay from William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, MS. I'm glad to see that this group exists.
We switched over to Canvas in 2015. All of our courses are on Canvas, though I understand from students that organizational setup for each course is course director dependent. We use Canvas for course materials, quizzes and grades, but we use ExamSoft for written examinations. We have two key areas of concern with Canvas: 1. Final grade override (I've posted several times on that discussion) and 2. Trying to use Canvas rubrics for faculty scored Clinical Skills Assessments. I've even been exploring add-on apps for this, but I'm not finding anything useful there either. The key issue seems to be that we have faculty scoring students as they perform a CSA, rather than students answering questions on Canvas. I just posted my question in "Higher Education," moments before I discovered this group. The post is tagged with CSA and Clinical Skills Assessment. Any insight on the second issue would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Eva Shay, DO
Assistant Professor of Osteopathic Principles and Practice
William Carey University COM
Hattiesburg, MS
I am Ran-Young Hong from ET@MO UMC University of Missouri-Columbia (mainly supporting School of Medicine)
UMC campus switched over to Canvas in December 2017. SOM started using Canvas for Medical School Online Orientation and PBL courses. I’d love to learn how you use Canvas and mobile apps for medical education. Thanks!
My name is Robel Sengal. I’m a man that has lived in Santa Rosa for most of my life. I have completed my nursing pre-requisite and have taken a variety of classes at the JC to broaden my general knowledge of how businesses and economics work. I have the ultimate goal of transitioning into a business owner and entrepreneur.
Thanks,
Robel
Hi there. I am from the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. We have just completed our soft launch for Canvas. Before that we had been using a bespoke system for many years.
We are still very new to Canvas - so all advice welcome.
Hi All!
I'm Neal Weber from Saint Louis University School of Medicine. SLU just launched Canvas in February 2018. I have used different LMS systems in the past, but Canvas seems to be very robust. Although it does have it's challenges.
Hi all!
I'm Chris Andrews from Tulane University SOM. We've been using Canvas for a couple of years and it has been going fairly well. Would love to meet up.
Chris
Hello! My name is Kim Price from the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine. Our SOM uses LCMS+, however UNLV just switched from Blackboard to Canvas this fall, and some of the SOM faculty have expressed an interest in using Canvas to provide supplemental online learning resources that are not available thru LCMS+. I am fairly certain our that SOM will stay with LCMS+ for the foreseeable future (especially as we work toward accreditation), however Canvas seems to be more user-friendly when it comes to producing online learning.
Hi there, my name is Eric Whitmer, and I am from St. Johns River State College and I am the Instructional Design Technician that serves the faculty mostly in Orange Park for multiple disciplines, including Nursing. We are about to complete our first full semester of using Canvas since we have moved from Blackboard back in July. I myself was just hired as the Instructional Design Technician at the same time coming from Information Technology as a Help Desk Technician.
Hi All,
I'm Helen Macfarlane from University of Colorado School of Medicine. We have been using Canvas since 2013. We also have curriculum and student groups in Canvas. The school of medicine is on the University LMS. Are others set up that way or do you have your own instance?
Best regards,
Helen