Canvas vs Frontline Professional Growth

• Many popular third-party educational apps have LTIs that integrate with Canvas.
• The gradebook has a Mastery Learning option for recording progress against a set of academic standards.
• The UI is very intuitive and even non-tech savvy users can use it effectively with minimal training.

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• Frontline Professional Growth is set up to organize and document all aspects of a teacher's evaluation. Artifacts are archived and can be used in multiple areas.
• SGOs, observations, PDPs, and documentation logs can all be shared between the staff member and the administration.
• The forms are easy to fill out, can be saved as drafts in progress, and can be referred to from year to year.
• The Professional Development Workshop section offers a calendar of workshops in catalog format as well as calendar format.
• As a workshop presenter, enrollment tools are easy to use and offer multiple ways to access your roster.
• As a workshop participant, workshops are listed as in progress and completed. Hours are tabulated and saved each year.

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• Rubric usage for forums is clunky, as is using rubrics for formal grading anywhere in the system
• Peer review, while promising, is nearly impossible for most faculty to set up correctly. A big disappointment for us
• Set up and accommodation for mastery learning, ungrading, or other alterantive grading structures is challenging

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• Confusing sign-on processes.
• AESOP (absence management) is not integrated with Professional Growth as advertised.

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• It has afforded me a platform to design more personalized learning scenarios for students and teachers, increasing understanding and comprehension.
• Has increased collaboration and quality feedback from student to student and teacher to student.
• More innovation and seamless integration of using technology to meet pedagogy and teaching of today.

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• We have used a lot less paper over the past few years which leads to cost savings.
• The time it takes to submit a form and get approval has sped up since this is all digital.
• The time it takes to track and award professional development hours has sped up.

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