Canvas

Canvas, where to begin.  I have a love hate relationship with this program.  Sometimes it is great and sometimes it frustrates be beyond belief.  Changing documents embedded using the LTI from the original.  How many times can you resave a document before you give up and just upload photos, so it retains the equations you need? Too many.  I use Canvas to host my course within the district I work for and instead of reinventing the wheel, I am using a section of my course that could be taught on line for this project, therefore I have been building everything within the my work Canvas and not the free version of Canvas, well just likely everything that is free out there, it has size limits, and the current version of the course and not the final version is to large to use the export package, now I either have to sacrifice content or I have to cut and paste all of the html code into canvas for each page and there are a lot of pages.  In my mind it was going to be soo easy.  Create it in the current course I am teaching, copy it to a sandbox course for tweaks and then finally export it to the course for the class.  Well, everything does not always go according to plan and I will make it work, because that is what you do.  I will be spending the next while copying and pasting, good times.  I have or at least I believe I have successfully transferred all of the files to the course, which will hopefully make the copying and pasting aspect easier, because the files already exist, and I do not also have to add those.  I had a breakthrough.  Free Canvas said the size of the files exceeded the free legal limit, well I went and checked out all of the files it was trying to export in the package and realized that there were quite a few that were not part of the online version and low and behold with some strategic deleting the export package was small enough and my course now exist in free Canvas.  I use the LTI function quite a bit with work, but they do not speak to each other here, I need to spend the next few days locating the files I had embedded/linked using the LTI and making them available, less daunting than the thought of copying and pasting a bunch of HTML.

I have not had much contact with my partner.  She has yet to accept my offer to view my course and as far as I can tell has not added me to her course.  I have sent her the details of my course and that there is material for her to critique for me.  I feel that she may be feeling overwhelmed after the completion of the design document.  All in good time.