TABLE 3

General Observations

  • General Canvas interface questions came up during workshops, more contextual, specific issues arose while using Canvas after workshops.

  • Six months after scheduled workshops, basic issues to do with importing content from the expiring D2L still came up.

  • Most serious issues arose from faculty use of external applications in Canvas.

  • Most users who had reservations about Canvas at the beginning, ended up liking it later when they started using it.

  • There was variation in speed of mastery of the new LMS among users.

  • In due course, more faculty members who did not teach online ended up wanting to learn Canvas.

  • Faculty members who did not teach online found features like the gradebook very helpful in managing student grades.

  • Issues faculty members encountered helped the designer to go back and formatively evaluate and revise workshops.

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