April 26th, 2016 Meeting notes

• Information about the class; when & where, photos
• Probably will be a separate page called Class Information
  
  

From the Canvas website:

Modules are used to organize course content by weeks, units, or a different organizational structure that works for your course. With modules, you are essentially creating a one-directional linear flow of what you would like your students to do.

Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials that you would like to use. You can easily add items to your module that you have already created in the course or create new content shells within the modules. Course content can be added to multiple modules or iterated several times throughout an individual module. Modules can be easily organized using the drag and drop feature. Elements within the modules can also be reorganized by dragging and dropping.

• This is main reason that Canvas is overtaking the LMS market
• Takes all the information, and put it all the same place
• Can build a learning narrative
• To build the same thing in Sakai one would have to hide files in Files & Resources, they would do a lot more.
• Just hit NEXT to get from document to discussion board, to test or what have you
• In Sakai, students would have to leave the page and lose focus, discussion… there is no direction from tool to tool in a learning narrative

Test & Quiz

Web Content Tool

• How we get external links onto left-hand navigation pane in Sakai
• Same tool is in Canvas but harder to find; takes a few extra steps
• Called Redirect Tool in Canvas

Home page for course can be:

• Course Activity Stream
  • Is default
  • Also available on the dashboard if they switch their home page
  • “Pages” page
    • Allows for any HTML you choose
    • Modules page
      • Is view of all the modules
      • Syllabus
      • Assignments List