Cabrillo College, you're an institution that serves a community that loves and respects you. You've established programs and services that help students find meaning in life through in higher education. This morning I read essays and poems from Cabrillo's English 1B social justice journal, Journal-X, brilliantly curated by Victoria Bañales. It's a powerful body of work. I hope it helps Cabrillo find meaning in what must be done to better serve students. I hope it affirms that in the classroom, thoughtfulness, empathy, and a willingness to care go hand in hand with students' sense of belonging. Students must feel they are trusted, and when life becomes impossible to perform at their best, it is not a sign of failure. Teaching is formed by a variety of experiences, mostly unpredictable, and  courses are theoretically supposed to develop over time.

Cabrillo, you can change your name, but can you also change your learning environment to be more inclusive and equitable? Be bold. Give faculty opportunities to design across a plethora of instructional modalities. Some instructional models are "needlessly complex in order to create a mystique of intellectual rigor." (Stommel and Burtis, April 2021) Cultivate pedagogical expertise, and support faculty development efforts. Instructors should be seen as partners in the research and redesign of teaching so when life becomes impossible for a student, the rug doesn't get pulled out from under them.

Making Canvas Exams More Secure, a Path Forward 🐾
Below are suggested actions to increase your confidence using quizzes without proctoring tools.
Canvas has two different Quiz​ tools,​ ​Quizzes (aka classic)​ and New Quizzes. New Quizzes is still being developed​​; at this time it has both advantages and limitations​.​ We acknowledge some STEM courses are using New Quizzes in ​Canvas​. The​ guides ​below are ​for both ​"classic" ​Quizzes and New Quizzes​.
​Quizzes and New Quizzes​. Special thanks to MiraCosta College for providing Canvas Guides links!

• Availability – Restrict the availability of the test to a specific date/time range. Quizzes | New Quizzes
• Time Limits – Limit or expand the time a student can spend on a test once they start it. Quizzes | New Quizzes
• Delay Per-Question Feedback (Quizzes only) – Providing students feedback on each question can help them learn; delaying the availability of this feedback until after the test availability window is over can help ensure the integrity of the exam. Quizzes
• Answer Scramble – Answers to multiple choice questions can be shuffled so they are presented differently for different students. (Note: In Quizzes this is one setting for the entire quiz; in New Quizzes this is a per-question setting.) Quizzes | New Quizzes
• Shuffle Questions – This will present the quiz questions to students in random order. For Quizzes, you can create groups and shuffle them. New Quizzes
• Use a test bank that randomly draws questions from a large bank – Drawing questions randomly from a pool can make it even more difficult for students to share questions during an exam. Quizzes | New Quizzes
• Calculated (Formula) Questions – Formula questions can include a range of values for one term/variable. Thus, the same question will have unique answers across different quizzes, but the question can still be auto-graded. Quizzes | New Quizzes

Making Canvas Exams Less Stressful

• Make the exam timed (or untimed) and "open book" — they may use the course materials to help find answers to the questions.
• They may exit the exam during their attempt. Their answers will be saved and they can resume at a later time.
• They may take the exam multiple times, and only the highest score will be recorded