Based on the great response I got from students in building the
Feedback Gallery, I decided to start collecting student-to-student advice in the form of a
Padlet, which I could embed in Canvas for current students to see:
Then, just last semester, I got a brainwave: I could take snippets of that student-to-student advice and turn it into a randomizer that can go in the class announcements so that every time the daily announcements come up, there's a bit of advice at random! I wrote up detailed instructions how to do this if you want to make one of your own:
Advice Randomizer for Spring 2020.
You can see the randomizing widget here in the
Daily Announcements sidebar; a different bit of advice loads each time.
And that means they see a bit of advice every time they arrive at the Canvas Homepage, since I use that blog as my Canvas Homepage:
Myth.MythFolklore.net. (More about blogs and randomizers here:
Blogging Tips.)
