{"id":123,"date":"2016-11-14T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:51:05","slug":"advice-keep-canvas-modules-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/advice\/advice-keep-canvas-modules-current\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice: Keep Canvas Modules Current"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of faculty voices, and how useful it would be if we shared our insight with each other and advice based on our experience teaching with Canvas, something that a marketing team cannot do:\u00a0<\/span>Moving from Marketing to Conversation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0T<\/span>hose weekly marketing emails would, in my opinion, be much more effective if they shared stories from\u00a0actual faculty using Canvas and solicited advice from faculty based on their experience. In the meantime,\u00a0I will be using the “Advice” category<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for posts that are explicitly about what I’ve learned from using Canvas that might be useful to other faculty. <\/span>I’ve also created an Advice section in the weekly Index posts<\/strong><\/a> that provide a blog inventory.<\/p>\n

So, here is my advice post for today:\u00a0keep your Canvas Modules current<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>It’s easy to do! You just need to move\u00a0the current Module up to the top of your Modules list as the weeks go by, moving the completed Modules down to the bottom of the list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s one of my courses, Myth.MythFolklore.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(the courses is completely open; just click-and-go, no log-in required),\u00a0and you can see how it looks now, in Week 12 of the semester when we have just Weeks 12-13-14-15 remaining. Then, below Week 15, you can see the completed weeks, starting with Week 1:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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So, each week on Monday as the old week ends and the new week begins, I go into the Modules list and move (drag and drop) the completed week down to the bottom. It takes just a second, but it matters to students, as I learned from his comment a student made in the Fall 16 Canvas Survey<\/strong><\/a>. This is what the student\u00a0said in the “Advice to Instructors” portion of the survey:<\/p>\n

Please adjust the settings of the modules to load the current week at the top. It has made a great deal of difference in getting to the modules I need quickly and efficiently. We’re covering a lot of material, and I like that the material we are finished with is at the bottom of the page.<\/em> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The students had other advice about using Modules also:<\/span><\/p>\n