Banner Panels in TextBlaze

I developed a TextBlaze system for easily generating code for QUT's mobile-responsive banner panel Canvas HTML elements.

Early iterations offered LDs to choose from a list of coded 'banpan' elements, but this approach eventually breached TextBlaze's character length restrictions.

The new innovation allowed all 'banpan' versions to use the same generic code but with the inclusion of cynamically inserted variables to control the image, the colour and the class.

The development required the use of TextBlazes advanced editing features:

• dropdown menu
• if/else conditions
• formulas

Ah we will miss your giant LD brain Leigh!

OES Learning Designer
24 May 2024

Oooh this is fabulous.
I will need to get you to show me some time the best way to keep adding to this Textblaze drop-down list
- this is gold!!!.

OES Lead Learning Designer
April 2023

The following video is a training resource in which Leigh explains the workings of the 'banpan' TextBlaze to the QUT team, so that other LDs can extend and maintain its usage.

Thank you SO much for this Leigh Canny.I've just had a watch and its great!!
I've added it to the Textblaze sub-item of the LD Resources board QUT section as well.

OES Senior Learning Designer
24 May 2024

AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia

I developed an interactive to display the AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia for Monash Online's ITO5205 Data in society Indigenous Data Soverignty module.

The map makes use of the Easy Zoom platform for exploring large images in detail.

I redeveloped the same content for QUT You's QUT002 Walking on Country unit.

Oh you absolute legend - this is fabulous.
This is exactly what I wanted the students to be able to do.
Thank you!!!!

OES Senior Learning Designer
8 May 2024

2024 - Learning Designer - Online Educational Services

• Design, develop and implement effective, innovative student focussed online learning for the Queensland University of Technology Online partnership
• Develop strong relationships with stakeholders (internal and external) to create learning resources and activities
• Partner with specialists to create online tools to deliver a best practice learning

Text-alternative design for accessibility

I developed a new system for image text-alternatives to use in QUT Online Canvas units. The previous system of linking to a seperate Canvas page was unweildly and did not meet accessibility standards. I developed the new design using the details/summary HTML elements to be more engaging, interactive and accessible.

The interactivity is now a button class which includes a hover state, so it is a bit more accessible and also consistent with QUT's existing button approach

Try the new QUT online Canvas text-alt button:

Text alternative

Textual description of visual image.

Canvas code and interactivity reproduced with permission of OES and QUT Online.

Hello 😀 ... wanted to shout out all the work you've been doing ... to make Canvas even more user friendly — legendary

OES Lead Learning Designer
1 May 2024

the new and improved text alternative accordion Leigh Canny designed is the preferred option. So we will all use this new text alt accordion from now for visual descriptions (also in textblaze for convenience)

OES Lead Learning Designer
19 April 2024

TextBlaze

In 2024, I have been developing my skills with TextBlaze, a very useful tool to make learning design more efficient and consistent.

Innovations I have developed in my team's code snippets include the use of:

• Input fields to enable user choices
• If/else conditions to process user's choices
• Formulas for dynamic calculations
• Variables to insert data into the code snippets
• Repeat loops for extensible code elements 

Innovation is in your blood, Leigh. I don’t think you can not innovate! This year you have altered the way that the pod code and the way that they view Moodle. You are busy driving best practice coding in the team, which will be an ongoing project with Textblaze and Codeless Editor 3 into 2024.

OES Lead Learning Designer
Performance Review 2023

Watch the following instructional video in which Leigh demonstrates some of the advanced code editing and UX features implemented using the TextBlaze tool.

Thanks Leigh...excellent!

OES Learning Design Lead
16 February 2023

STM101 banner HTML graphic replacements

I collaborated with OES' senior graphic designer and used my skills with HTML and CSS to develop this mobile responsive banner design for STM101 activity packs in Canvas, QUT Online's prepatory resource for STEM units.

The previous design relied on images only - and was inaccessible for designers and for students. 

The following images represent different Canvas screen widths for Activity Pack 4: Further web development.

It looks great Leigh 😄 I'm happy with the results, always keen to collaborate on responsive graphics.

OES Senior Digital Designer
28 March 2024

LD Lounge (ITO4131 Java programming)

As Senior Learning Designer, I was tasked to invent a system to track changes to units that needed to cycle elements each time they would run for Monash Online. 

Rather than rely upon an external platform to hold this information, I developed the 'LD Lounge' in collaboration with our Learning Design Assistant (LDA); an area in Moodle, hidden from students, for LDs and LDAs to visit whenever the unit is rolled-over and various items need to be updated. The idea is similar to the 'OLA Lounge', a concept that OES uses for unit teaching teams.

In the case of ITO4131 Java programming, the assigned game that the students would build would be changed each teaching period, as would the quiz questions from the question bank. 

The LD lounge is the ideal place to note these changes because the data would carry over into the next teaching period with the rest of the unit.

The ITO4131 Java programming LD Lounge is going to be my one-stop-shop for what to update when I'm doing this rollover.
Lets put it into ITO4132 next!

OES Learning Design Assistant
23 October 2023

AI for careers-focused learning

The career's-focused learning team came up with the following implementable innovations from the OES Learning Design department's onsite collaborative event.

• Employability Learning Outcomes.
• Pre-professional identity activities
• AI generative chat-bot interactive learning experiences.

 

Video content and Moodle pages presented with permission from OES.

Watch the following video which showcases the work achieved by the careers focused learning team.

EDF5770 Designing for interaction and collaboration

I developed a system of interchangeable modular topic content intended to be included next to other relevant learning material.

The modular insertion used Moodle's quiz embedding functionality. I employed a JavaScript linked external CSS file to replace the default Moodle quiz style with the EDF signature graphical style.

Additionally, each modular is interactive, offering students an explanatory 'What is this?' pop-out to explain how the modular content should be viewed and also the opportunity to explore examples in the 'Digital platforms the could be used' accordions.

@Leigh Canny. Pod QA complete. A great interesting unit about my favourite topic - interactivity :). Loved the java too! Comments are in the rubric as usual. Thank you!

OES Senior Learning Designer
6 October 2023

Select each of the following images which capture a sample of the interchangeable modular content topics.

H5P Workshop

I presented the innovative design of unique H5P Structure-strip H5P elements for the Ben interactive for Monash Online's PSY4111 in the Graduate Diploma of Psychology. The H5P workshops brought OES LDs and LDAs from Melbourne, Cape Town and Edinburgh together to share their wicked problems and workshop H5P solutions.

The H5P workshops over the last two weeks were hugely successful and fun - thank you to everyone who came and shared their previous work, ideas and enthusiasm. I am always reminded during these workshops of how true it is that two heads are better than one. And when we combine the experience, creativity and willingness to explore new ideas from a creative group like ours we really do come up with amazing work for our students.

OES Senior Learning Designer
8 December 2023

🏠 Stages Building (ITO5136 Software development)

I developed a 'stages' approach to LD building in which LDs are encouraged to build more efficiently by focussing on particular tasks in stages across a buld project.

You have a clear vision for your builds and bring people on board in a structured way

360° survey - co-worker feedback
February 2023

Yeah I love this Leigh. Keen to see you and the team try this out for ITO5136- perhaps tracking progress with these stages/items as subitems in Monday?

OES Lead Learning Designer
November 2023

Watch the following video in which Leigh and the team discuss the benefits and future developments of the stages building approach as implemented in the ITO5136 build. The video also illustrates how these stages have become incorporated as part of the team's Monday.com planning boards.

ITO4001 Foundations of computing

I managed workloads for Monash Online’s ITO4001 Foundations of Computing unit build. I worked with the academic team at Monash University to develop suitable materials for online learning. 

With competing priorities, I managed the build time by building an initial module for other LDs to emulate and instructed my team to follow the design. 

I also worked with OES’ LD STEM specialist to develop and produce interactive activities.

You feel more confident in the area of workflow and allocating out work to the team.

OES Lead Learning Designer
July 26 2023

Master of Enterprise Student Learning Journey

I contributed to the development of Monash Online Master of Enterprise Student Learning Journey project. The interactive allows Master of Enterprise students to arrange their study tasks in a tailored order to suit their own study habits.

My contribution was the UX design for the customisable drag-and-drop interactivity to allow students to tailor their own learning journey depending on their study preferences.

Monash University & Online Education Services (OES) won Platinum in the 2023 LearnX awards for Best Interactive Scenario in the Best Learning Design category for the Master of Enterprise Student Learning Journey project.

Interactive content reproduced with permission from OES and Monash Online.

Personalised learning: Authentic and immersive learning experiences with Moodle​

The following topics were covered in my presentation on personalised learning: Authentic and immersove learning design for OES Learning Design department's global offsite collaborative event (Gatherfest 23).

• Addressing the student.
• Engaging critical thinking
• Gamified achievement.

Morning Leigh! Great work on the poster and workshop last night Leigh...

OES Lead Learning Designer
15 November 2023

Video content and Moodle pages presented with permission from OES.

Watch the following Miro talktrack video which previews the presentation topics ahead of the Gatherfest 23 event.

Working with Monash Coursework Template & Moodle 4.1

As part of the Monash Online leadership group, I used my extensive knowledge of Moodle and background in Monash Online pedagogy to develop a response to the challenges of the institutional changes to Moodle.

Along with the upgrade to Moodle 4.1, the university had developed an LMS template that would have proved incompatible with the established pedagogical approach of Monash Online units, so I developed the Working with Monash Coursework Template strategy. 

The strategy document outlines a technical learning design approach that Monash Online and OES could take to preserve our pedagogical integrity while accommodating the imposed changes.

Great work

OES Chief Academic Officer
11 October 2023

Thanks so much Elena and Leigh for all your hard work that made the testing possible and gave us the time estimates. It's hugely appreciated.

OES Lead Learning Designer
24 October 2023

PSY5020 Family violence practice foundations: 'Daniel' animation

Build achievements

This animation was a collaboration between our learning designer and the graphic designer and me who developed the HTML/Javascript to make the interactive animation work.

The animation solution was a response to the challenge of presenting the content from the Say it out loud: Our Stories page in a more digestable and engaging way, and with consideration of trauma-informed learning design principles.

This is awesome Leigh and Callum! It looks so good and is a great way to capture attention for a Spark. Love it!

OES Learning Designer
October, 2023

Moodle pages and video content presented with permission from OES and Monash Online.

Watch the following video which showcases the work achieved in the PSY5020 build.

🔥❌🔥 Heat Exchange

As Senior Learning Designer, one of my development goals is to 'Contribute to an internal coaching program to support the development of Learning Designers and the broader LD pipeline.'

A key development in this area is the development of Heat Exchange; our 1:1 fortnightly one on one learning design coaching approach to LD development in the Monash Online LD team. 

This program was a successful way for team members to develop their own special projects and interests with my guidance to help them achieve individual and team goals.

Read more about the team members' individual Heat Exchange projects.

[What helped was] Heat exchange sessions - I'm getting lots of value from learning new skills!

OES Learning Designer
October 2023

Thank you for always working out a solution to my code problems!
Leigh always comes to the rescue when I think of something I want to do but then can't work out how to do it properly in code. He's also been teaching me a lot about how code works.

OES Learning Designer
May 2023

Shell for UX Designing

UX Design Shell was my personal sandpit space in Moodle in which I designed and developed innovative learning design solutions.

I maintained the site to also be a showcase resource to learning designers to transfer learnings about the coding of the various HTML elements.

The ITO4131 Java programming LD Lounge is going to be my one-stop-shop for what to update when I'm doing this rollover.
Lets put it into ITO4132 next!

OES Learning Design Assistant
23 October 2023

Watch the following video in which Leigh demonstrates some of the innovative designs developed in the UX design shell.

The following image captures a sample page from the the UX Design shell. This page illustrates all of Leigh's design thinking and various options for presenting modal elements on Moodle pages.

Embedded questions (ITO4001 Foundations of Computing)

In order to enhance student learning experience, I harnessed the Moodle quiz embedding functionality to embed check-your-understanding quiz questions throughout the learning material in Monash Online's ITO4001 Foundations of Computing unit. 

The quiz embedding approach had multiple uses and supported business goals arond pedagogical application of technologies (new and existing) that enhance student experience.

the students enjoyed the unit and they appreciated the examples, exercises, quizzes, etc embedded in the unit, which they found quite effective for their learning.

Monash Associate Professor
October 2023

Moodle pages and video content presented with permission from OES and Monash Online.

Watch the following video which in which Leigh presents the concept to a Hot-takes session.

Moodle question and reveal interactive

As part of our Heat exchange project, I mentored a team member and collaborated on the development of this interactive.

Conceptualising the format from an existing element in another business partner's LMS, we considered the pedagogical value of this type of student interaction with the learning material. We then developed Moodle-adapted code with the generative AI assistance of Chat GPT to accept user text input and to provide SME feedback. Later, we styled the product to be consistent with Monash Online styling.

Wow! I absolutely love this. What a game changer. It's these sorts of ideas that really enhance the quality of our existing offering and show that we're operating at the cutting edge of the industry. I'm confident that this not only contributes to student success and engagement, but it will strengthen the positive perception of OES by Monash.
Great work Elizabeth Williams and Leigh Canny

OES Learning Designer
19 October 2023

Awesome Elizabeth Williams and Leigh Canny! Would love to use this as it is so much nicer than H5P essay or documentation tool

OES Learning Designer
19 October 2023

The following image captures the Moodle question and reveal interactive as deployed in PSY5020 Family violence practice foundations.