Faculty can meet with an instructional designer and collaborate to design, build, and/or enhance a course. Instructional design consultations can include mapping a future course to its outcomes, transitioning an in person class to online or vice versa, preparing courses to be handed over to new instructors, discussing how to implement a pedagogical technique into your course (such as UDL or Specifications Grading), implementing instructional design best practices, using technological tools to help create a better online experience.

Academic Innovation can also work with departments and divisions to create Canvas course templates and faculty-centered instructional materials. Having a course template will allow courses in the same department/division to have similar branding and navigation, while still allowing the unique content and personality of the instructor to shine through. Providing instructions on how to use the template and what information to put where can also be a huge benefit to existing faculty, as well as giving new hires a useful starting block from which to build their courses.

Sometimes unique situations call for unique solutions. Meet with our LMS admin to discuss how we can support your extracurricular Canvas endeavors. Our past projects have included:

• Self-enroll forms for clubs, trainings, and other non-credit bearing Canvas sites.
• An enrollment system for Continuing Education.
• Student participation checkers.

Whether you want to bake accessibility into the structure of your course or go in and update content after the fact, we can help! CTL can help to make sure your course is formatted accessibly, or you can reach out to oneills@mail.wou.edu for assistance with machine readable PDFs and captioning.