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Dialing in Mobile Learning

Hang Up on Inaccessible, Boring Canvas Course Designs

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CidiLabs Team Memeber for 7 years

Michelle Muldowney-Stevens

Manager of Customer Success @ CidiLabs Former Instructional Designer @ Utah State

DesignPLUS 4-year customer

Maikel Right

Associate Director of Instructional Learning Technology @ FIU OnlineFaculty Fellow @ Honors College & Liberal Studies

What we're talking about

QM Connect 2024

Where We Come From

Why Design Matters

How We Use DesignPLUS

Real-World Examples

Effortless Accessibility with TidyUp

FIU Online

Miami, Florida

Fully-online and Hybrid online courses

+2,100

Online and residential students

+35k

Certified Quality Matters courses #1!!!!

+500

Cidi Labs

Salt Lake City, Utah

Canvas tools, from DesignPLUS to Student Performance Monitoring with ObservEd.

founded to provide clever, user-friendly products that address course design challenges.

2016

Customers globally, including higher education and K-12; all types and sizes.

+500

Why Design Matters

Pretty is Powerful

Thoughtful visual design in courses not only enhances student engagement and learning outcomes but also positively impacts instructor effectiveness and course evaluations.

visual elements ... significantly influenced ...motivation

Park & Lim

people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone

Mayer & Moreno

students are more likely to read visually appealing textbooks

Training in visual instructional design improves teaching practices

Gurung & Daniel

Right

Accessing course readings

51%

Communicate with other students

44%

41%

Doing Research for reports

Finishing Up Assignments

40%

Used at least once a week for learning activities

81%

Lessons from COVID

Digital Divide

40%

K-12 students participate in online learning

54%

College students took an online course

25%

22%

College students report unreliable access to internet

K-12 students report unreliable access to internet

What We Needed

IDs, Faculty, Students

Cost Effective

Public University + Downward Enrollment

Accessible

WCAG, VPAT, ADA Compliant

Scalable

35K students across +2K Canvas shells

No code

Easy for anyone to pick up and use

What is DesignPLUS

From Cidi Labs

DesignPLUS is a time-saving, easy-to-use Canvas plug-in that helps you rapidly build and style high-quality courses that make learning engaging and accessible for all students.

The Sidebar

The Multi-Tool

The The Upload/Embed Image Tool

IDS4607 - Understanding Your Lib Major

Templates

• Less confusion due to familiar look and feel
• Decreases course development time
• Makes quality scalable
• Promotes department buy-in

IDH3034 - Digital Fairytale

Content Blocks

• Facilitate connection
• Decreases course development time
• Makes quality scalable
• Promotes department buy-in

IDH4007 - Study Abroad France

Style Editor

• Decreases frustration and assigning blame on faculty
• Decreases emails to faculty for tech support
• Streamlines help and support

EAB3630 - Assessing Children

Background Tool

• Images promote community and sticky learning
• Decreases design time
• Elevates content quality and learner perception

IDH3035 - The Power of Play

Inspiration

• Rewards learners for interacting with the course
• Addresses the issues that arise from student solely navigating course through to do list
• Easier to make things when you have options

What is TidyUp

From Cidi Labs

TidyUP is a fast and easy way to check for and delete unused files and pages in Canvas.

Identify unused files

Check for unpublished pages

Remove empty

Takeaways

The Why

Accessibility

Facilitate & Motivate

High Quality Course Design

Scalable and Ease of Use

Standard 8

Usability & Organization

Contact Us

Email or LinkedIn

Michelle Muldowney-Stevens

Manager of Customer Success

Maikel Right

Associate Director of Instructional Learning Technology

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