By Matt Hamblen, Computerworld
Canvas offered the school a way to help instructors monitor Navigator students in their discussion groups to see how they handle group projects. “We needed to find a way to help them do group work, which is always difficult on the autism spectrum,” Gardner said. Students meet in small project groups once a week face-to-face and can extend those meetings with the online collaboration tools, Gardner said. About half of the students use smartphones whole others use tablets to access Canvas, where they can read assignments and announcements from instructors and classmates. Because some of the students travel three hours each way to attend classes, their smartphones are extremely important to their learning. Gardner herself is on the autism spectrum, and took her job on the condition she be able to telecommute part of each week because she finds office socializing and frequent face-to-face interactions difficult and exhausting.
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