A self-paced training designed to help St. Thomas University faculty build practical skills for creating effective, learner-centered courses in Canvas.
The Center for Teaching and Learning tasked me with creating a Canvas bootcamp to assist faculty who were facing challenges with navigation and content formatting. Through focus groups and surveys, we identified common issues such as cluttered layouts and inconsistent media usage. These problems were contributing to student retention concerns due to cognitive overload.
To address the diverse levels of Canvas proficiency among faculty, I crafted learner personas ranging from beginners to advanced users. By leveraging Bloom's Taxonomy, I established precise, task-oriented objectives that corresponded with practical Canvas tasks, such as creating a syllabus page or embedding multimedia content.
This course is intentionally content-rich to serve as a comprehensive reference for instructors. Ideally, I would have preferred to segment the material into smaller, more manageable parts and incorporate more practical assessments, such as having participants gradually develop a course. However, the absence of an instructor limited our ability to implement such assessments.
I developed and structured the course within Canvas, utilizing Camtasia to create engaging tutorials and Rise for delivering microlearning experiences.
Faculty members participated in surveys and quizzes, which revealed a 40% increase in their confidence levels. Additionally, course rubrics indicated enhanced clarity and accessibility.
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Need your team to master a new skill or sharpen an existing one? Let’s pinpoint exactly what they need, and I’ll design a learning experience that keeps them engaged—solving real problems in a low-stakes environment where they can practice, refine, and grow. And best of all, I’ll make sure the results speak for themselves.
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