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Welcome to the Tame the To-Do List Topic

The To-Do list is a great convenience to students, so much so that some of them use it as the only access to your class, undermining your course organization and the connections among assignments. Let's get a handle on how to use the To-Do list to our advantage. This topic relates to Part II: Design and Organization (Examples A, C, and F) of the MiraCosta Online Class Quality Guidelines.

By the end of this topic you will be able to:

Understand the different ways students use the To Do list in Canvas
Create a strategy for communicating assignment tasks
Adapt Pages and non-graded assignments as needed, or use assignment due dates to prevent use of the To Do list
Adapt naming conventions for assignments

Meet Your Lead

I'm Lisa M. Lane, online history instructor for many years and former director of the Program for Online Teaching. If you have any questions you can email me at llane@miracosta.edu or you can contact Nadia Khan at nkhan@miracosta.edu.

What You Need to Get Started

Access to the course where you want to work on the assignment tasks
List of assignments

Things We Will Cover

How students see and use the To Do list
Limitations of the list
All-or-nothing decision-making
Adapting assignments to implement your decision

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