Practical guides, frameworks and free courses for people who design online learning, with plenty of Canvas along the way.
A short audit of your Canvas course for notifications, tools, deadlines and weekly page length, so you can reduce demands on students’ attention without lowering expectations.
Six weeks, six small actions: a repeatable toolkit that turns this month’s themes of AI clarity, the hidden curriculum, safe writing and attention-friendly design…
Content without engagement is wasted effort. Here are the Canvas features worth setting up to improve student engagement in online and blended courses.
Accessible design helps every student. This post gives you five practical tips and a short routine for checking your Canvas pages.
Personalisation does not mean a separate course for every student. This post offers four practical tactics and a way to keep them manageable in…
Students rarely say a Canvas course is hard to navigate. They just miss things. Here is how to make yours recognisable, consistent and easy…
Playlists and choice boards give students a say in how they learn. This post shares practical tips for designing both, and shows how to…
A free one-week course. Turn your questions into a file you can import into Canvas New Quizzes or an item bank, with a badge…
A free one-week course. Build a clear, tidy Canvas page from ready-made components, choose how it looks, and paste it into Canvas, with a…
A free four-week course on structuring, sequencing and pacing online weeks with PANDA, Merrill, Gagné, Bloom, Salmon, the Engagement Cycle, personalisation and accessibility.
