Reception for Students Interested in Creative Writing
Date:
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Location:
Commonwealth House--Gaines Center
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Canvas VS Blackboard
I have been taking ITIQ Web Publishing (A&S 100-205) which uses Canvas a system that is similar to Blackboard but in my opinion it functions much better. One of the first things that I noticed about Canvas was that the login page took you straight to your course, where BB (Blackboard) takes you to another landing page where you have to select your course from a list. Another thing that Canvas does better than BB was the way that you can switch between courses, there is a drop down at the top of the page that you just select a different course. This is much better than having to go back to the BB landing page, wait for it to load and then select another course from the list.
Canvas is much faster and everything on a page loads very quickly. There are two sections on the BB landing page that I don’t know what they are about because they never load, which doesn’t matter because all I want are my courses anyways.
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