Problems in Canvas
Chad Brassil
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01/30/2017
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Problems with Canvas by Chad Brassil, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences.
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- [00:00:02.496]The most difficult part of transitioning to Canvas
- [00:00:05.324]is that Canvas is great, and there's lots of stuff
- [00:00:09.118]that I like about it better, but inevitably,
- [00:00:11.340]you'll find something like, oh but why does
- [00:00:13.343]it still do that?
- [00:00:14.671]Or couldn't they have fixed that?
- [00:00:16.407]So it's not the promised land.
- [00:00:19.410]It's just better than Blackboard.
- [00:00:25.645]And you'll hit little rough spots.
- [00:00:28.116]Hopefully, those things will get fixed over time
- [00:00:31.691]or you'll learn to adjust to them.
- [00:00:34.000]For example, one of the things that Canvas
- [00:00:36.111]currently doesn't do to my stunning surprise
- [00:00:38.829]is give you any way to look at the average grade
- [00:00:42.278]of your students, or the distribution
- [00:00:44.651]of the final letter grade of your students,
- [00:00:46.589]which seems like the obvious thing that an LMS would do.
- [00:00:50.165]But why that's okay is that Canvas has this system
- [00:00:53.091]for feedback, and they're fairly responsive to that.
- [00:00:55.491]As a user, you can post that on a forum,
- [00:00:57.440]get other people to vote for that,
- [00:00:59.290]you can feed it to UNL support staff
- [00:01:01.344]and they can feed it to Canvas,
- [00:01:03.130]and Canvas is constantly rolling out new features
- [00:01:06.808]that go live to everybody all the time.
- [00:01:09.527]In Blackboard, it would sit there,
- [00:01:11.633]and they would think about it, and a year later,
- [00:01:13.690]they'd write the new version, but then we'd have
- [00:01:15.739]to trial the version for a year
- [00:01:16.945]before they released it.
- [00:01:18.144]When you identified a problem, it might be
- [00:01:20.086]two years before that problem gets fixed.
- [00:01:23.054]I had an instance when we were doing pre-trials on Canvas
- [00:01:26.599]where we had a problem, and two weeks later
- [00:01:28.260]it was fixed and enacted in the software.
- [00:01:30.607]That's pretty cool.
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