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CanvasBells & Whistles + Improvables

Bodong Chen, Assistant Professor

Curriculum & Instruction, CEHD

November 8, 2016

About me

Learning Technologies

▷ Computer-supportedcollaborative learning (CSCL)

▷ Learning analytics▷ Online learning & MOOCs

My prior journey with LMS

▷ 2006 -- Develop a SCORM-compliance LMS

▷ 2008 -- Moodle customization

▷ 2009~onging -- Knowledge Forum, etc.

(as a researcher; “anti-management”)

▷ 2015~ongoing -- Canvas, KF, Data Carpentry, etc.

(as an instructor)

My pedagogical principles

Community of inquiry (Garrisona & Arbaugh, 2007)

Photo credit

My pedagogical principles (cont’d)

(Chen & Hong, 2016; Scardamalia, 2002; Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2014)

Photo credit: Dr. Monica Resendes

Knowledge-Building Communities▷ Student agency▷ Improvable ideas▷ Community discourse▷ Knowledge-generating

(vs. knowledge-telling)

My (biased) pedagogical needs

More of:

▷ Scaffolding

▷ Conversations

▷ Student identity

▷ Self-regulation

▷ Emergent collaboration

▷ Community progress

▷ …

Less of:

▷ Managing

▷ Knowledge transmission

▷ Content-centric

▷ Teacher-regulation

▷ Scripted collaboration

▷ Solely individualistic goals

▷ …

Note: # of institutions currently using Canvas: 628. Figure shows institutions with 2K+ students.

My courses on Canvas

▷ CI 4311W - Fall’15 (public version)

▷ CI 4311W - Spring’16, Summer’16▷ CI 5301 - Summer’16, Fall’16▷ CI 8134/35 - Fall’16, Spring’17

Special thanks to LT PhD candidate Derek Schwartz

1. “Bells & Whistles”InterfaceGrading

Third-party toolsAnalytics

etc.

““my first time using Canvas… it is pretty easy to

navigate and [has a] pretty slick look.”

“Tricky in the beginning. It is really easy to get used to.”

“I think it is [a] better version of Moodle.”

● Fully online● Liberal education● Writing intensive

Mobile!

Credit: Derek Schwartz

Student View: less navigation links

Student View: visibility control; to-dos

Canvas Calendar

Easy to embed multimedia

Embedding: Padlet (Credit: LT PhD student: Yu-Hui Chang)

Speed-grader: Feedback

Speed-grader: Media comments

Third-party tools:

Unizin Engage

Unizin Engage (A big shout-out to Shane Nackerud!)

Unizin Engage: Students notes & questions

Unizin Engage’s Analytics (Note: students can export readings.)

Canvas Analytics - Class level

Unizin Snapshot

Ongoing …

2. “Improvables”Content navigationDiscussion features

Student identitySense of community

More course-level customizationWith contributions from Derek Schwartz

Color schemesFront-page templates

Customizable analytics...

Navigation (reflecting ‘folders’)

(Yet another long)threaded discussion

Opportunities● “Movable” ideas● Richer linkages● Support for reflection● Mentioning (@)● Cross-thread search

Knowledge Forum (and Yellowdig, Muut, Discourse.org…)

Nebula by Northwestern; LTI-compliant Photo credit

Weak online identity

Know -- Make -- Play(Thomas & Brown, 2011)

▷ Instructors in the “new cultures” of learning

▷ Emerging PD areas (e.g., data literacy)

▷ Campus dialogues (e.g., Unizin CoP)

Thank [email protected]

@bod0nghttp://bodong.ch/

AcknowledgmentsChris Scruton, Erik Epp, Tom Nechodomu

Shane NackerudDerek Schwartz, Yu-Hui Chang