How can someone design an identical course in Canvas and Moodle, and how do they compare? Rick, a Quality Matters Peer Reviewer, will compare a course designed by Quality Matters to how he would design the same course in Moodle. Quality Matters used Moodle for its courses but then switched to Canvas. Can you figure out why?
- Teacher: Rick Jerz
There is a hidden curriculum in every piece of EdTEch, and nowhere is it more insidious than in an LMS! Just like students in a course might not know they're supposed to read a syllabus, or how to study for a college test versus a high school test, or what office hours are . . . faculty might not know they can track student activity completion, or how to set up a competency-based course, or what all those boxes in a Quiz question mean. Even more concerning, at most institutions, all the decisions about default settings, what's Advanced or not, the order of items displaying on a page, the columns that show to students in a Gradebook, what form of feedback for Assignments is transmitted to the Gradebook, the upload size limit, and many many more, are made by experts in the field of . . . technology, not pedagogy. And so, just as the medium is the message, the LMS is the Gogy.
- Teacher: Joseph Kennedy
- Teacher: Dajha Houston