Experience with Canvas
I have been invited to teach for JWL again in January. They have migrated all of their courses from Blackboard to Canvas. I have heard so many wonderful things about Canvas. It's a great opportunity for me to get a sneak peak view of what makes faculty rave about Canvas. I'll keep updating the below Likes and Dislikes lists as I teach. Likes The Assignments Tab All assignments are listed by weeks, giving students an overview of what's due when. The beauty of this function is that if I create a new discussion thread. It automatically populates under Assignments and Gradebook. Likewise, if I delete a discussion thread, this assignment is automatically deleted from the Assignments list as well as the gradebook. In D2L, it takes me at least 3 extra clunky steps to achieve the same thing. I also like how easy it is to add a due date for each assignment. Due dates are not built into the master content. Individual faculty can easily add or edit the due date. Of course these ...