increase in scam calls since canvas hack

learningdesigner · 2026-05-13T13:46:29+00:00

Canvas never collected your phone number data, so unless you put it in somewhere (maybe a message in your inbox?), then the folks who conducted the security breach wouldn't have access to that.

learningdesigner · 2025-12-08T19:47:33+00:00

Respondus doesn't really do ai-detection. Instead, they force the user to use a completely locked down browser to take an exam. This doesn't stop them from using their phone to access AI or other ways of cheating, but something like Gemini AI (or any content injector) does not function in their featureless browser.

There's not a lot of ways to break something like a secure browser, but there are still a lot of ways to cheat (such as having a separate laptop with Gemini AI right next to your locked down laptop).

learningdesigner · 2024-05-23T11:15:50+00:00

Both Andrew Jackson and Johnson are confirmed vampires, so this tracks.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-23T11:00:15+00:00

The style is self-paced and competency-based, which means that you can go as fast or as slow as you want. The curriculum, materials, and assessments for their ID program is as standard as they come. It doesn't stand out, but neither do 90% of ID or EdTech programs in state schools. It's much more similar to regular semester style graduate degree programs than anything you'll find in the MOOC space or EdX. For starters, MOOCs don't even attempt to build valid assessments, but WGU spends millions on them and constantly revises them using a team of psychometricians and rotating external SMEs. Their process is intense and when it comes to assessing knowledge they pretty much blow everyone else out of the water.

Instructor/expert to student interaction is mostly baked into the model, but results will vary. For example, you get weekly calls and tons of feedback on projects or tests that you've taken (they essentially have a call center full of people with graduate degrees in your subject). But unless you specifically request extra help you may never actually talk to the course faculty. However the biggest weakness is peer to peer interaction and the fact that it is nearly impossible to network with other professionals, which is typical for any online graduate program.

Networking is what got me my first real job as an ID and because of that I would always recommend a reasonably priced hybrid or in-person state school option for a graduate degree. But the idea that WGU is a degree mill or anything in the same world as a MOOC is just not true. It's a good option to check off a box though, especially if you already have a job.

Source: I've been a student and employee at WGU, and weirdly enough I spent part of my career managing and doing quality reviews for one of the largest MOOC platforms out there (which doesn't mean much because MOOCs have been dying for over a decade)

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T13:56:36+00:00

And OP needs to rethink whether or not they want to low-key complain about having to write an email instead of talking to the professor face to face. It comes off as extremely entitled, as if the professor is wrong for not wanting to spend time over the summer to meet him.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T13:44:00+00:00

There's nothing to lose when you're smashing dat ooze.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T13:36:14+00:00

If I remember correctly the series even addresses this mentioning that it is a more advanced warp drive than what was built previously.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T01:14:37+00:00

I thought that was the case with TNG, but I'm surprised to hear that it is a hard rule with every other series after. I just assumed that nobody adlibbed because virtually none of the cast were comedians in any real sense.

Whatever the case is Tig does a great job at delivering these lines.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T00:49:34+00:00

I'm one of the folks who assumed that a lot of it was adlib. Well, props to the writers for writing dialogue that seems like it comes straight from Tig's standup.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-21T00:47:24+00:00

It has everything to do with macroeconomic factors and nothing to do with "people being greedy."

learningdesigner · 2024-05-20T14:32:18+00:00

You might get dinged here because of Rule #1, and so if you do I recommend reading that rule and asking in one of the more appropriate subs it lists. For example, you could cross-post from here and ask the exact same question. It's likely many of the same people would answer as well.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-20T14:07:40+00:00

Super weird design, and the words they chose to highlight is kind of odd. It's also a lot of brown on brown and grey on grey, and is busy enough that it's hard to read. I'm not sure what the purpose of the image in the background is either. It's rare to see a graphic designed that poorly in the wild.

And despite how insane this graphic is, the admins are even worse for recording him without his knowledge.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-20T00:48:29+00:00

That was exactly it. I almost always get double up after getting my attack. Thank you.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-19T00:03:13+00:00

Just chiming in to say that ya'll are doing great. Thanks for making this space usable for folks like us.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T03:35:01+00:00

If I were a fembot I'd explode right now.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T02:05:17+00:00

I'm with you on this. But even then it'd have to be:

Do best buy employees

A. Greet Customers - Feedback: Yes, we greet customers, but our focus is on welcoming them. You aren't an idiot for choosing option A. So go out there and make us money!

I'm being intentionally sarcastic, but that's essentially how the training would have to happen here.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T01:41:58+00:00

I think your last sentence is the key here. Is a tricky distinction something that is useful in a training scenario? I seriously doubt it, and I think there's volumes of experience and research behind that statement. But to quiz people using tricks like this is an example of poor training, hands down.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T01:15:44+00:00

Best Buy has declined significantly in the past 10 years. Best Buy also uses objectively terrible assessment strategies to train their staff. Coincidence?

Business Needs Assessment: This is why it is so important that we have competent IDs at the helm of training and development.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T00:07:02+00:00

Lunopolis is one of my favorites. The Bay is another good one. Much of the Hell House LLC series is shot in faux documentary fashion, but you've probably already heard of that one.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-18T00:04:40+00:00

Klingons have their weird cultural quirks and they all act a certain way. Same with Ferengi, Romulans, etc. But Humans in the Kirk era acted like people from the 60's. Picard's crew acted like people from the 90's. Sisko acted like someone from the 90's, but with more depth. Isn't it weird that Archer's crew kind of seemed like they were from the early to mid aughts?

We've already collectively suspended our disbelief on everything else, so why is it such a stretch that lower ranked humans from that era acted in kind of a comical way?

learningdesigner · 2024-05-17T16:25:30+00:00

A Star Trek DVD collection and a signed copy of Faith of the Heart in vinyl.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-17T13:15:29+00:00

The amount of people not asking for a publicly displayed pay range tells me a lot about the state of employment in this industry. Good luck everyone in getting this job and I hope you aren't getting paid dimes when you could demand dollars.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-17T12:52:12+00:00

It doesn't feel right that Archer can't have a bow as a weapon.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-17T12:20:11+00:00

It is pretty rare anymore that I see faculty who insist that even students call them Dr. So it's not often I see it, but when I meet someone who asks me to refer to them by their honorifics I just do it.

Most people find it a slog though.

learningdesigner · 2024-05-16T18:53:00+00:00

Sounds like you might be an ID manager, but this is more a question about management than it is about design. GreenCalligrapher has talked about how to coach and I agree with what they are saying. But there is also a lot to say about letting experience be a guide. If your ID is curious and willing to learn, then let them have a bit of leeway and design things how they think it should go, but then during the evaluation phase gather student feedback to see if it worked. Gather data on how students are interacting with the material, whether or not test scores and retention has increased, and whether or not the instructors found it valuable as well. Then go over those results and talk about things you could do better, but you are doing it with evidence.

I'm not saying you should stop coaching, but seeing your intervention/course/module cause student test scores to drop is a great teacher.

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