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Designing Your Course for

Student Success

Bryan Hauf

Kim Meyer

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Housekeeping

• Bingo

• Session Format

• Session Materials:

https://unthsc.edu/cil

• Padlet:

http://bit.ly/2mxeuLi

• Social Excursion: What does Student Success

mean to you?

Share using #CanvasCon

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Session Outcomes

• Create learner-centered home pages

• Apply best practices for course

organization & navigation

• Design user-friendly resources

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What is course

design?

Design process model by Dee Fink (2005)

Significant Learning

Outcomes

Authentic Assessments

Engaging Learning Activities

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What is course design?

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Creating Your Canvas Homepage

How can we

improve this

homepage?

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Meet Annette

Today Annette accessed her Canvas course

to complete her course media project. She

had difficulty with the assignment from the

very start.

First, she could not find the assignment mentioned in class as

it wasn't clearly labeled.

She was instructed to use various technologies that were not

mentioned during the lesson nor linked within the course.

Annette was unable to complete the assignment to her fullest

capabilities because she was lost, frustrated, and confused.

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The Challenge

For the next 3 minutes, discuss with the

person (or people) beside you about

how Annette’s situation could have been

improved with the instructor creating a

custom course homepage.

What information or instructions could

have been added to the homepage?

Share your ideas/discussion to Padlet at

http://bit.ly/2mxeuLi

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Visual Design

• Canvas Styleguide

• WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor

• Web Usability Guidelines

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Other Strategies

• Rotate Homepage

• Course Introduction Module

• Create Templates

• Course Dashboard

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Course Organization

• Easy-to-navigate

• Clear

• Self-descriptive

• Consistent

• Informative

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Course Organization

• Modules

• Files

• Pages

• Course Settings

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Meet Dr. Adams

Dr. Adams needs help. She is a new instructor on

campus who is trying to learn how to load content into

Canvas on the fly.

Students are communicating to her that they are lost

in the course.

They are having difficulty finding the correct

assignments for each week, and once they find the

assignments, they spend extra time locating the files

and resources for that assignment.

How can we help Dr. Adams? What can we do to

improve the students’ and Dr. Adams’ experience?

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Solution 1: Reorganize

Files

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Solution 2: Use Modules

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Solution 3: Use Pages

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Recap

Homepage Course Organization

Usability

Customize Organize Content Accessible

Introduction Module

Easy-to-navigate Visual Clarity

Adapt and Adjust Consistency Readable

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Questions?