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Thomas Reid: So there are a couple of issues that we wanted to accomplish in Berkeley Adult School. One is that we wanted to provide more supports for students to be able to access learning from whatever conditions the world is in or their lives are in now. There's a lot of barriers to coming to class, whether it's a pandemic, or my car broke down, or my work schedule changed. And if we can have our course content structured in a way so that students can access at least some of it even if they miss a class, that's in favor of student learning.

And the other thing, though, that's been part of our interest in growing as a school, it has to do with curriculum consistency. So whoever is teaching that particular course title, students really ought to get the same skills and similar skills whoever is teaching the course. And Canvas can be a tool for that curriculum consistency. A teacher can build the course, or we can download a shelf from somewhere already built, make it what we want it to be, and then that can be shared among teachers.

Maybe those teachers are teaching in the classroom. Maybe they're teaching distance learning. Maybe they're independent study teachers. But we're able to do a better job guaranteeing students exposure to the same skills.

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