About
james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
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620
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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...
Most Recent Posts
@StefanWaner I am actually going to put this in as a UX Bug, as we have also had instructors who did not find the Submit button to intuitively mean that it was attached to the comments.
@skreitzer Do you have the Feature Option Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader on your Settings page? If so, enabling that provides a simple file download in the SpeedGrader sidebar....
@RockyRobinson Are you referring to Access Tokens in Canvas that are used to utilize the API? If so, most instructors do not need to use those unless there are complex things you need to do utiliz...
In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching Innovation launched the Canvas Course Spotlight — a program inviting students to spotlight specific aspects of their Canvas courses that positively impacted th...
@zrobertson If you put this in as a ticket, I would push back to them that this is a UX Bug and that you would like it to go through that intake system.
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