Projects
Trainings made with Storyline
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This was made for an in-person tech orientation for all freshmen at STLCOP (now UHSP). I worked with a team of IDs, SMEs and media specialists to create an interactive course orienting students to their new laptops. My role was formatting graphics, writing and formatting text, creating interactions (such as a completion activity involving hot spots triggering layered images and text) and voicing the video walk-through of the new laptop. Like all of the following .story files, it is housed using my AWS s3 bucket.
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This iteration of our comprehensive Poll Everywhere Training shows a completed module 1,"Register via Link," and a shell for the other modules to show overall design. In the final product, each module contained a short screencast, an interactive review of key points, and a quiz. This self-paced training was housed in our Moodle Learning Library for faculty and staff with break out job aids for microlearning. I designed and developed the training with input from faculty, staff, and our AT Team.
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The greatest initial cognitive load for faculty and staff when using LimeSurvey came from navigating the overwhelming toolbar and settings to hone in on what they really needed. This training, which built on the work of a past ID, was akin to an interactive job aid and designed to be a quick way to familiarize new learners with the toolbars and survey options. The clean design offsets the cluttered toolbar of the survey platform.
Design & Development
Our Chief Security Officer wrote a new comprehensive set of policies and needed campus-wide training. He gave me free reign to run everything from needs analysis through production; I was absolutely thrilled! This script for part 1 of the training represents hours of translating and organizing complex policy into a user-friendly, engaging and efficient training with quiz interactivity. Our HR director shared feedback from the Board of Trustees that it was the best training they had undergone at the college.
Kahoot is a platform I loved introducing to professors to increase engagement and gather formative assessment data easily. This storyboard was created as a sample for a design team to collaboratively create a gamification training for Kahoot.
This site map and hand-drawn storyboard helped to guide the first iteration of the Poll Everywhere training which was eventually published to our LMS Academic Technology training page.
Working on a team of IDs, we conducted a needs analysis and completed this wireframe for part 1 of an introductory Moodle course as an LMS orientation for new faculty and staff. The wireframe illustrates the scope & sequence of the course section and gave us a springboard for assessing existing resources versus needs for new assessments, microlearning videos and job aids.
Job Aids
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After witnessing the most common needs of our faculty and staff who were employing Poll Everywhere, I made this job aid using the formatting of our Academic Technology style guide. Made for just-in-time microlearning, a collection of brief guides such as these were housed in our AT library on Moodle.
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Implementing Respondus Lockdown Browser was a frequent pain point for most of our faculty, and many requested AT presence at all assessments. To help professors build confidence in preventing and responding to the most common errors experienced during exams, I built this guide, which our department distributed campus-wide. I often saw it on podiums during exams and was happy to see that it helped many professors feel empowered to respond to errors personally.
This job aid was made as a simple decision making tool to guide the gradebook selection process in Moodle, which was often a challenging concept during onboarding for our faculty and staff. I built it in PowerPoint, and it benefited from the eyes of our ID team, whose feedback helped create the final product.
Most professors conducted hybrid courses, but some wanted to design fully online versions of their courses. I made this guide to help facilitate our conversations when we met as a team and then gave a copy to each professor as a reference for best practices.
Videos
This is an informal micro-learning video on adding captions to an old Camtasia video. For accessibility, closed captions can be turned on and off and the Smart Player is enabled for navigability. A Table of Contents is embedded so users can go directly to the segments they need the most!
This video represents the "Absorb" portion of the third module of a self-paced, asynchronous training. I scripted, voiced, edited, and produced this module in Camtasia for the faculty and staff of St. Louis College of Pharmacy. It was housed in our LMS library along with a transcript for UDL and breakout job aids for microlearning opportunities.
Our professors were incredible SMEs who often had a limited background in education, and providing them with a sample course navigation video helped them to brainstorm ways they could support their students while introducing them to best practices.
LMS Course Design
Our Office of Diversity and Inclusion wanted to build a community space for all campus members. After working with the SME to determine the objectives and scope of the course page, I built this page collaboratively with a Department representative. I created the banner and the following linked buttons, each leading to a closed topic and providing for easy, clutter-free navigation in bright, welcoming colors. To help them achieve their goals, I included templates for surveys, questionnaires, form submissions, and forums.
This course page once displayed over a hundred resources for twenty different web applications and types of software, making it cluttered and overwhelming. To address this, our ID team made each topic a collapsed button leading to sub-pages with organized content. We organized the links at the top of the screen by frequency of use and made sure they transfered across sub-pages. Finally, we used Adobe Photoshop for our banner and placed it at the top of the page. Additionally, we populated each mini-library with job aids, videos, and Storyline training to bridge learning gaps.
Evaluation
My ID colleague and I designed this using the Kirkpatrick model and provided a sample post-training survey as a springboard for creating quick and powerful assessments. This was used to ensure uniformity across the large-scale LMS training we were creating for new faculty and staff.
Academic Technology wanted to acquire a user-friendly survey delivery system, and I was tasked with researching, testing, and recommending vendors. After initial interviews with key stakeholders, I developed this tool as part of the Needs Analysis phase, filled it out with information from vendor meetings, and presented it to Academic Technology. We ultimately acquired SurveyMonkey, the vendor that the data supported.
With feedback from SMEs and IDs, I designed this campus-wide survey as part of a larger Needs Analysis regarding communication between the IT Department and faculty and staff. This is a printable version of the digital document created using LimeSurvey. Results from this survey were synthesized with focus groups interviews that I conducted to create a departmental report.