Innovation in a Hybrid Environment: Champlain College and Canvas LMS
Canvas LMS is a versatile partner for Champlain's upside-down, outside-the-box learning philosophy serving a half on-campus and half online student population. Adopting Canvas LMS gave Champlain a solid foundation for remote learning and an essential tool in hybrid learning moving forward. Watch the video to learn more.
[MUSIC PLAYING] JOSH BLUMBERG: We were formed in 1878. But we've evolved so much over those years. And it's because of that innovative culture. As a college, we've constantly reinvented ourselves. And that's really made it a unique place. What I like about it is the student faculty life.
And what I mean by that is I get to know my students. I talk with my students, I know their names. We're on a first name basis. KYLIE KING: Champlain College is a really entrepreneurial place. So we encourage our faculty, our students, our staff to think about where the future of education is moving and to try to move along with that.
JOSH BLUMBERG: Our old LMS was outdated. It really didn't serve our students that well to have something that was clunky to use, that our faculty struggled to organize their content in, and it wasn't unified. It didn't have a mobile app, it didn't allow us to integrate with a modern API and get data in and out, it didn't allow us to stretch what it could be. And we really wanted a product that could stretch with us. We pride ourselves in being an innovative school.
We needed an innovative product that we could push and that it wouldn't break. And we needed a company that backed it up that was going to keep it growing along with us. JOSH BLUMBERG: By moving to something first class like Canvas, we knew that we were setting ourselves up for the future. CHERYL CASEY: Technology plays a role in helping me to build out from the classroom. How can I supplement what we're doing in person with a technological environment that gives them all kinds of resources for thinking and creating and connecting? JOSH BLUMBERG: In our old LMS, less than a quarter of our on-campus faculty really leveraged it.
We quickly grew that up into the high 80% in Canvas. And we've been able to really push Canvas in creative ways that open API has allowed us to pull data in totally creative ways and do really interesting stuff to really meet students' needs where they're at. CHERYL CASEY: What I love about Canvas is that you can take a traditional syllabus structure and translate that into Canvas and make it an interactive syllabus, make it a creative syllabus. I can integrate and embed other apps into Canvas pages, I can organize everything according to modules. KYLIE KING: I do see students using Canvas and a number of different interfaces.
Through mobile, through their desktops they're able to get assignments where they are and stay up to date where they are, receive notifications, and I think that helps keep everyone on track. JOSH BLUMBERG: For our adult students who are going back to school, we really wanted a way they could attend in their own time. So Canvas was ideal. The discussion forums in Canvas became the centerpiece of those courses and we leveraged all the other features fully. BRIAN HALL: We want the people, students, teachers, and staff too to have the best experience as possible. The institutions that are going to survive are going to be able to adapt and provide education in different modes, not be a one-stop shop. What people need to understand in terms where higher ed is going is that flexibility is going to be the key.
And what I mean by that is I get to know my students. I talk with my students, I know their names. We're on a first name basis. KYLIE KING: Champlain College is a really entrepreneurial place. So we encourage our faculty, our students, our staff to think about where the future of education is moving and to try to move along with that.
JOSH BLUMBERG: Our old LMS was outdated. It really didn't serve our students that well to have something that was clunky to use, that our faculty struggled to organize their content in, and it wasn't unified. It didn't have a mobile app, it didn't allow us to integrate with a modern API and get data in and out, it didn't allow us to stretch what it could be. And we really wanted a product that could stretch with us. We pride ourselves in being an innovative school.
We needed an innovative product that we could push and that it wouldn't break. And we needed a company that backed it up that was going to keep it growing along with us. JOSH BLUMBERG: By moving to something first class like Canvas, we knew that we were setting ourselves up for the future. CHERYL CASEY: Technology plays a role in helping me to build out from the classroom. How can I supplement what we're doing in person with a technological environment that gives them all kinds of resources for thinking and creating and connecting? JOSH BLUMBERG: In our old LMS, less than a quarter of our on-campus faculty really leveraged it.
We quickly grew that up into the high 80% in Canvas. And we've been able to really push Canvas in creative ways that open API has allowed us to pull data in totally creative ways and do really interesting stuff to really meet students' needs where they're at. CHERYL CASEY: What I love about Canvas is that you can take a traditional syllabus structure and translate that into Canvas and make it an interactive syllabus, make it a creative syllabus. I can integrate and embed other apps into Canvas pages, I can organize everything according to modules. KYLIE KING: I do see students using Canvas and a number of different interfaces.
Through mobile, through their desktops they're able to get assignments where they are and stay up to date where they are, receive notifications, and I think that helps keep everyone on track. JOSH BLUMBERG: For our adult students who are going back to school, we really wanted a way they could attend in their own time. So Canvas was ideal. The discussion forums in Canvas became the centerpiece of those courses and we leveraged all the other features fully. BRIAN HALL: We want the people, students, teachers, and staff too to have the best experience as possible. The institutions that are going to survive are going to be able to adapt and provide education in different modes, not be a one-stop shop. What people need to understand in terms where higher ed is going is that flexibility is going to be the key.