About

james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Posts:
499
Solutions:
177
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579
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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@marusak Here at Cornell, our big issue was the fact that the move from 1.1 to 1.3 meant manually redoing everything that included Google Apps as an external tool or embed without there being a cl...
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Most Recent Posts

@lwisfranco Do you have a subscription to any of the Instructure tools outside of Canvas LMS? I have never seen this alert feature in our instance.
Jun 30, 2025 11:21 AM
@FlemmingVesterg If you have report notifications set up through your Notifications settings, the report should go to your profile's main email address. If you are not getting the report notif...
Jun 30, 2025 11:12 AM
@JonMeyer I think this is a great idea and would recommend submitting it as a feature idea. I know they've been working on updating the SpeedGrader recently and this seems like it would be a n...
Jun 24, 2025 07:18 AM
@NickRiches Unfortunately, there is not a clean way to do this for individual assignments in Canvas at this time. You could have multiple copies of each assignment and assign specific students to ...
Jun 24, 2025 07:14 AM
@DanJagger Sorry, but I still seem to be confused. So, in a Canvas course site, you can choose whether to use diff tags for each assignment. They are there as an option on all assignments (if avai...
Jun 24, 2025 07:09 AM

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