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Design: Canvas Course Design

As completed on June 11th, 2023, my classmates and I completed designing and restructuring a Canvas course that provides training for TAs in the BYU-Idaho English Department. I specifically worked on designing and transferring document resources into Canvas pages and modules. I created several short review quizzes, a home page, and produced a training video using Loom. I communicated via email and in-person meetings with the client to discuss progress, changes, and new feedback/requests. I learned to ask detailed questions, adapt to new information and requests, receive constructive feedback, and make the necessary changes with a positive attitude and an open mind. I have included screenshots of different parts of the modules, pages, and quizzes, as well as the video that I recorded and edited, specifically to trim the beginning and end of the video. I learned how to use Loom screen capturing and recording for that project. Over the course of the project, I collaborated with one teammate to split the work between us for our assigned sections. I reorganized the side menu to have the modules closer to the top and remove some extraneous, unused options. I transferred PDFs and Word documents into Canvas pages by copying, pasting, and reformatting the text to resemble the original document as a Canvas page. I collaborated with another teammate in his section and volunteered to record a video for a presentation he made to lighten their heavy load. I learned how to edit and use Canvas courses for this project, and I linked in-course and external links (such as adding tutorials for how to use Canvas) to text descriptions of the links. Overall, I learned new skills, implemented them, and adapted to developing requests from the client to better fit the project to their needs. 

The home page (image inserted by a teammate):

A module: 

 A section of a page:

A section of a quiz:






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