About

james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Posts:
362
Solutions:
118
Likes Received:
379
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...
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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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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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Is there a way to actually remove these courses from the calendar though? If I have an admin looking at 100 courses a semester, the calendar is going to get crowded quickly.
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Most Recent Posts

@SamSlim I don't believe Canvas Rubrics can currently handle calculations like this. I know they are working on adding new features to Rubrics as part of Rubrics Enhancements, so you may want ...
Dec 20, 2024 5:15:17 AM
@nuscitpkg I am not sure that is the issue. From reading the Known Issues for Turnitin, it seems that would only apply if making a Turnitin Assignment via the LTI. This case seems to just have the...
Dec 20, 2024 5:11:46 AM
From some quick testing These elements DO NOT stay: Feature Options, Navigation, Assignment Group weights, Late Policies, Grade Posting Policy, Gradebook View Options*, Gradebook filters These element...
Dec 20, 2024 5:03:19 AM
@thienhb This looks great! You might want to share it as a blog post in the Community, as this area is for people seeking help from other Community members.
Dec 20, 2024 4:08:41 AM
They are still working through the updated voting process. I will keep this flagged in my email though so I can vote for it once the process is back in place.
Dec 19, 2024 12:52:47 PM

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