Author: John Carter

Reducing the Grading Workload for Low-stakes Assignments with the Set Default Grade Tool

September 13, 2023 by John Carter

Learn how to use the Set Default Grade feature in Canvas’s Gradebook to lighten the grading workload. Whenever a new semester or academic year rolls around, I always find myself thinking about how I get work done and how I can most efficiently approach the grading in the weeks and months ahead of me. With […]

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Thinking Outside the Discussion Board Box

June 14, 2023 by John Carter

Learn about an alternative way of using Canvas discussion boards to create resources students can refer back to and use. In this post, I outline one of my early struggles with discussion boards and how that struggle led to me wondering how else I could use a discussion board to get the biggest pedagogical bang […]

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First-gen Pedagogy: Who are First-generation Students?

March 29, 2023 by John Carter

How do we “view” our first-generation students? Who are they and what identities and backgrounds do they bring with them to the classroom beyond their first-generation status? From childhood memories of hanging out in academic offices to late night co-working sessions decades later as a graduate student, growing up with a mother who was a […]

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