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Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants or “Don’t make me cry”

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Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants

As you know from reading my blog that Canvas is the LMS being considered to replace D2L (the “Carmen” branding will remain the same).

The Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is getting ready to do a second run of their pilot program for Canvas learning management system (LMS) this spring. Details can be found in this ODEE article.

In the first pilot were 15 courses chosen for the first pilot but there was NO representation from the College of Public Health.  

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Time to change that. 

 

This second pilot

  • is a great opportunity to learn more about Canvas
  • as well as gain first-hand experience teaching with Canvas
  • while being fully supported by both a cohort of peers as well as focused attention from ODEE and myself.

Instructors will receive COMPLETE Canvas training in December as well as ongoing support via ODEE’s monthly Canvas pilot workshop meetings. Along with that I will help you through EVERY STEP of the process. I will come to your office daily with coffee if need be.

Ohio State’s Distance Education Enrollment Plan projects a 450% increase in distance education students by the year 2020 and CPH is actively working to meet the needs of these students by increasing our online offerings.

Ready to be part of the party?

Complete this Canvas Pilot Application form by Wednesday, November 4.

Want to talk more about it? Send me an email and I will stop by.

Want a cat video? Watch this one.

 

 

 

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Canvas pilot at OSU

Ohio State is evaluating the best solution for the university’s online course offering needs. While Carmen is the brand OSU uses to identify its online course site, the LMS (learning management system) behind canvasCarmen is called D2L. D2L was the optimal LMS choice when OSU began its foray into offering courses online but as user and faculty needs change, so must the LMS.

OSU created the LMS Evaluation Committee, charged with “evaluating the functionality of best-in-class learning management systems and providing a recommendation to Liv Gjestvang by June 15, 2015.” The committee was excited by what Canvas LMS had to offer and are currently piloting this tool. At this time, ODEE is only evaluating Canvas; no decision has been made regarding which LMS OSU will ultimately select.

 

Why should you care? (Or “What does this mean for the College of Public Health?”)

I will be keeping a close eye on the Canvas pilot program (and any other LMS evaluation programs) to determine how this tool can best meet our students’ needs. I will continue to share with you the features the new LMS will offer us and suggestions on how those features can be used. Stayed tuned for more and follow the tag= (what does this mean?) Canvas in this blog.

You can learn more about the OSU evaluation here.

Interested in a Canvas sandbox? (maybe insert a brief explanation of what this is) Learn how to request one here.

To stay connected to the OSU Canvas pilot eval, follow the “Canvas Eval” tag from ODEE (Office of Distance Education and eLearning).