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InstructureCon 2011Christopher Bennell

OCADUcbennell@faculty.ocad.ca

mailto:cbennell@faculty.ocad.camailto:cbennell@faculty.ocad.ca

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Snowbird - Cliff Lodge

Me

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Canvas New Features: Gradebook

Redesigned, comprehensive gradebook

Faster, easierKeyboard Navigation

HTML5

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Canvas New Features: Inbox

Group conversations

Threads, archiving

Includes profile picture for easieridentification

Auto-complete by user, course

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Canvas New Features: Quizzes

Limit access by IPRealtime moderation

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Other new features

Podcast feed for discussion topics

SIS IDs in APIBecome User for support staff

iPhone app for students (cloud only)

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Roadmap

Canvas as a platform

Mobile development

Student participationTools for faculty

User driven

Cloud Native, continuous integation

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Me

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Backwards Design Approach

Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, U of Utah

Design based on learning objectives

One year from now, my students shouldbe able to...

Align teaching activities, assessment,feedback with LOs

Quality Elements: Objectives,Organization, Activities, Media,Community, Feedback

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Measuring Student Satisfaction

Ben Adams, U of Pennsylvania

Bake-Off

: WebCaf (legacy) vs. BB,Canvas

8 faculty, 300 students

Surveyed use of BB, Canvas. 80%recommended switch to Canvas

Zero student training. Faculty build

course contentLack of consistency with Canvas coursedesign. IT planning to provide more

guidelines

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Enchancing Online Learning with Canvas Media

Michael Griffiths, Bringham Young

Extensive use of video by instructor,students

Early on there was no decent

technology for video

Video assignments, students formrelationships even when geographically

distantIndividual, one-on-one contact betweeninstructor and every student

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Designed for Uptime

Benji Edwards, Instructure

Focus on availability, security

Amazon WebServices

On-demand, automated provisioningwith Puppet

Extensive monitoring

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How Canvas gets Updated

Zach Wily, Instructure

11 Engineers, Agile / Scrum

Tickets get prioritized, assigned toengineer

Unit, integration tests

Peer code review

2 week release cycle on GitHub

Still figuring out how to incorporate OSissues into queue

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API 101

Jon Jensen, Instructure

Developed for mobile app. Mobile drivesAPI dev

JSON, REST

OAuth2

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