About

james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Posts:
422
Solutions:
143
Likes Received:
471
Bio:
James Whalley is a senior instructional design technologist in the Center for Teaching Innovation. Prior to joining CTI, James was the director of online education in the International College of the University of Suwon. In that role, he oversaw training, as well as course development and implementation through the Blackboard learning management system. Including his time at USW, James taught in South Korean universities for more than six years, focusing on instruction in ESL and film. James holds a bachelor’s in theater arts with an emphasis in film and a master of business administration from Humboldt State University. He also holds a master of education in instructional design from Western Governors University.

Most Liked Posts

I'd like to echo @mwolfenstein in questioning what's going on here. If Streamline the experience and reduce the cognitive load of modules is too big a lift, why did you even let folks vote...
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Hello @AllisonHowell, Thank you and the team for all your hard work in getting us new features. I'm excited to bring this new feature to our professors here at Cornell. I've done a little ...
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You may also want to check the Idea Conversation precursors, as I remember some of these same ideas that had hundreds of upvotes suddenly only had dozens of 5 stars. It would be nice to recapture all ...
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@SamGarza1 When is “immediately”? We want time to make a decision and contact the CSM if we need to keep it on. This is our first week of semester and people are already building discussions with ...
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@marusak Here at Cornell, our big issue was the fact that the move from 1.1 to 1.3 meant manually redoing everything that included Google Apps as an external tool or embed without there being a cl...
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Most Recent Posts

If you had enabled Discussion Checkpoints and have since disabled, you may be wondering how you can find the affected users. Thanks to a friend in the Community Coaches group, I was able to find affec...
Jan 31, 2025 7:45:47 AM
@tkight From the documentation, there does not seem to be an option to change the report download format. This seems to be in line with the lack of this functionality elsewhere in Canvas. You can ...
Jan 31, 2025 6:46:23 AM
Problem statement: Admins do not have any information regarding which courses have enabled which feature options in Canvas. This means that we cannot message those users directly when there are issues...
Jan 30, 2025 6:25:43 AM
@NaomieAmsing Just want to give you a heads up that there is a feedback survey available right now for discussing peer reviews.
Jan 30, 2025 5:54:27 AM
@SHARLENEBURGETT I'm sorry if you did not find my reply helpful. I was simply trying to positively support the idea and express that the feature idea is in place for the Canvas development tea...
Jan 29, 2025 6:09:19 AM

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