Canvas Co-Design Minimum Standards Task And Finish Group (Queen's University Belfast) (Event)

Description

The Project Task and Finish Group’s membership comprised students, academic staff and professional support staff. Student feedback was used to inform the work of the Group, including qualitative feedback from the 2021/22 Student Digital Experience Insights Survey which identified inconsistency in the way information across a programme is presented as a key frustration.

The aim of the project was to address the inconsistent module layout across Canvas courses, as identified as an issue by students, and provide a solution to improve the student user experience.

The Terms of Reference of the Task and Finish Group was:

• To co-design a minimum baseline template for QUB Canvas courses, reviewing and revising core elements agreed in the Canvas Course Development Guide.
• To support 1 School per Faculty to create (1-2) exemplar course(s) which include the minimum baseline and demonstrate good practice in course design.
• To extract from exemplar course a bank of School-facing Canvas templates, which academic staff can use as building blocks in the development of their course(s).
• To lead the development of a Course Design Toolkit, a framework for Canvas Course Development which is accessible, flexible, easy to implement and offers inspiration.
• To present a report to ECSE with recommendations on how best practice can be more widely rolled out and embedded across Schools; and how this can be facilitated sustainably to support a transformative student experience within Canvas, going forward.

The project ran from February to June 2022 and identified and delivered four project outcomes;

• VLE Minimum Standards,
• VLE Page Templates which academic colleagues can use as building blocks in the development of their own course(s),
• Three School Example Modules, which include the minimum baseline standards
• Course Design Toolkit.

The Committee welcomed the Minimum Standards and endorsed the good practice identified for adoption.

Period	01 Feb 2022 → 30 Jun 2022
Event title	Canvas Co-Design Minimum Standards Task And Finish Group (Queen's University Belfast)
Event type	Other
Location	Belfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local