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Christopher Bennell
Jun 1, 2011, 4:33:01 PM6/1/11
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Could someone please explain the concept of a section in Canvas? I don't think it meshes with how we use sections here.
Is anyone actively using sections? What kind of advantages do they provide?
Much appreciated.
Is anyone actively using sections? What kind of advantages do they provide?
Much appreciated.
dphillips
Jun 1, 2011, 11:32:16 PM6/1/11
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Do you mean the sections that teachers can add in the course settings,
or the sections that get added by the school?
They should be mostly the same.
If I have ENGLISH 101 that meets at a certain time, and another
ENGLISH 101 that meets at another time, then I would have 2 sections
of ENGLISH 101. Also, I could have 2 sections that are actually the
same class, such as SocialWork 101 and Psychology 105. These meet at
the same time, same teacher, same classroom, etc. These 2 courses
would then be what's called cross listed, or xlisted, in Canvas. One
Canvas page would contain all students in SW 101 and PSYCH 105, the
teacher would then just edit one place in Canvas.
or the sections that get added by the school?
They should be mostly the same.
If I have ENGLISH 101 that meets at a certain time, and another
ENGLISH 101 that meets at another time, then I would have 2 sections
of ENGLISH 101. Also, I could have 2 sections that are actually the
same class, such as SocialWork 101 and Psychology 105. These meet at
the same time, same teacher, same classroom, etc. These 2 courses
would then be what's called cross listed, or xlisted, in Canvas. One
Canvas page would contain all students in SW 101 and PSYCH 105, the
teacher would then just edit one place in Canvas.
JT Olds
Jun 2, 2011, 12:32:53 PM6/2/11
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Just to clarify additionally:
in some LMSes, course material and website content is all stored at
the section level. In Canvas, course material and website content is
stored at the course level. If you have courses that you want separate
course content for, you can't just use more sections to solve that.
-JT
Christopher Bennell
Jun 2, 2011, 12:40:28 PM6/2/11
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Makes sense. Thanks.
dphillips
Jun 3, 2011, 12:48:00 AM6/3/11
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I just had this clarified to me today. So instead of having more
sections, the sections would have to be given their own class in order
to get their own content, right? That's the only way to differentiate
them it seems.
If we have what's called a different section at our school, and it's
being taught at a different time, we would have to make a new class in
canvas to hold that section.
On Jun 2, 9:32 am, JT Olds <j...@instructure.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify additionally:
>
> in some LMSes, course material and website content is all stored at
> the section level. In Canvas, course material and website content is
> stored at the course level. If you have courses that you want separate
> course content for, you can't just use more sections to solve that.
>
> -JT
>
sections, the sections would have to be given their own class in order
to get their own content, right? That's the only way to differentiate
them it seems.
If we have what's called a different section at our school, and it's
being taught at a different time, we would have to make a new class in
canvas to hold that section.
On Jun 2, 9:32 am, JT Olds <j...@instructure.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify additionally:
>
> in some LMSes, course material and website content is all stored at
> the section level. In Canvas, course material and website content is
> stored at the course level. If you have courses that you want separate
> course content for, you can't just use more sections to solve that.
>
> -JT
>
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