Subject walkthrough showcase: Leadership for Learning

Collaborating with a team of expert specialist presenters, I helped to deliver the first of the MO subject walkthroughs showcasing the Master of Education (Educational Leadership) subject Leadership for Learning.

The specialist area which I presented was about the navigational features in Leadership for Learning, and all subsequent Melbourne Online subjects. I focussed upon the Canvas modifications implemented by Melbourne Online user experience designers, and their impact upon future students' learning experience.

Leigh is a confident and engaging presenter. He ... volunteered to support me and a group of others in presenting at a recent MO subject showcase.

MO Head of Learning Design
22 July, 2025

Just wanted to pay tribute to the awesome crew of showcase presenters yesterday for such a wonderful display of our SX. Hoping I haven’t forgotten anyone
Congrats to…
Kate Mori, Catherine Naghten, Andrea Lou, Leigh Canny, Erika Carver, Chris De Maria,
Simone Attia, Emily Warman

MO Director of Operations
20, June 2025

It was seriously awesome. Well done, peeps!

MO Technology Lead
20 June, 2025

Great showcase everyone!

MO Growth and Partnerships director
19 June, 2025

Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏  to Leigh,
Andrea, Emily, Simone, Erika, Chris, and
Catherine for presenting at today’s MO showcase of our subject, 'Leadership for Learning'—#owningittogether.
It’s no small feat to stand up and present in that forum, no matter how much preparation goes into it. It’s a challenging yet valuable opportunity to learn, grow, and gain the confidence to do it again… bring it on! 🤩  Everyone did an incredible job, and we should feel so proud of our collective efforts.🦚 This subject is a testament to how well we’ve worked together across teams to create something I'm confident will be truly impactful.🎉
Special thank you to Eileen for making the technology work.💻

MO Head of Learning Design
19 June, 2025

Congratulations Kate Mori and the whole team. It was great to hear from each of you and learn about each of the elements in Leadership for Learning. What an excellent #ownittogether 🤩🙏

MO Operations Manager
19 June, 2025

Communicating for Wellbeing

I redesigned some convoluted assessment instructions which had been developed for in-person on-campus instruction, using my online instructional expertise to translate these into clear instructions for online students.

The assessment required students to interact with several learning platforms including a Cogniti AI agent, Feedback Fruits and to produce a video for peer feedback.

I completed the content editor feedback process for Melbourne Online's Master of Education subject Leadership for Learning.

• applied the new MO template to earlier designed pages.
• estimated times for activities' completion
• adjusted Readings Online reading status
• reorganised pages and summarised content.

Morning @Leigh Canny thank you for stepping in and completing this work, much appreciated as I know this took you away from your Cyber work for a few days.

MO Head of Learning Design
May 14 2025

@Leigh Canny thank you, really appreciate your help with this work!

MO Academic Product Manager
May 14 2025

Creating Interactive Content with H5P Workshop 2019

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Creating Interactive Content with H5P, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series.
The Moodle site contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop their use of H5P (a Moodle integrated tool for developing interactive content).
Of particular interest is the 🏆Interactivity Challenge which is a 'gamified' experience that guides users through various levels of achievement in order to expose users to various different H5P content types.

Interactive Content with H5P

Moodle pages reproduced with permission of Monash University Faculty of Arts

User Experience for Learning Workshop

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for User Experience Design for Learning, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for User Experience for Learning contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop their online resources to improve the student learning experience and maximise student engagement.
User Experience for Learning

Moodle pages reproduced with permission of Monash University Faculty of Arts

Using Video Technology

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Using Video Technology, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for Using Video Technology contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop skills with video production and publication into their online teaching platfrom.
Using Video Technology

Moodle pages reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Teaching Effectively with Video Workshop

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Teaching Effectively with Video, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for Teaching Effectively with Video contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop better pedagogical approaches to the use of video content in their teaching units.
Teaching Effectively with Video

Moodle pages reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

H5P Con 2018

At the 2018 H5P Conference, I delivered a working paper called "Gradable Videos for Proficient French", to the global H5P community of software developers, content creators and academic educators. In the paper, I recommended improvements to H5P based on pedagogical insights gained during the French Proficient H5P Grammaire development.

Conference program

View the H5P Conference 2018 Program for Monday 03 December, 2018

Working paper description

The Challenge: Teachers in the School of LLCL: French Proficient 2 unit face the challenge of: Requiring students to prepare for class by completing grammar exercises. Requiring students to prepare for class by watching video grammar lessons.

The Solution: H5P exercises that integrate with Moodle gradebook Make gradable videos. IE: To build H5P interactive video which grades students according to how much (%) of the video they have watched. 

Conference responses

Positive conference reactions to "Gradable Videos for Proficient French" indicated that my approach to H5P was stimulating and engaging.

@LeighCanny uses @H5PTechnology yo create a series of interactive statements with low-stakes assessable grades to deliver gradable interactive content - initial findings suggests it helps with #studentengagement, #studentmotivation and #studentlearning #h5pcon2018 X

Deakin University Learning Innovations Lead
3:11 PM Dec 3, 2018

#h5pcon2018 here’s an example using gradable videos in @H5PTechnology. Looks really simple and easy to use and students are liking it! X

Deakin University Learning Innovations Lead
3:14 PM · Dec 3, 2018

Leigh Canny using #h5p and the LMS gradebook with release conditions to motivate students to come prepared to class #H5PCon2018 X

Victoria University Associate Director Improving Learning and Teaching
3:06 PM · Dec 3, 2018

Arts Teaching & Learning Portfolio

In 2018, I led a redevelopment of the Arts Faculty Teaching and Learning Portfolio intranet website.

I sought stakeholder input from Educational Design team leadership to better understand the intended functions of the site and its redevelopment. Consideration of user experience evidence and analysis of similar teaching & learning resources (especially in consultation with the Educational Innovation Community of Practice) enabled me to develop working models (such as the 2017 Mock Arts Teaching and Learning site) to illustrate how increased usage could be achieved by better connecting users to more engaging and relevant content.  I was able to communicate with internal administrators and external contractors to negotiate technical requirements of the Wordpress redesign.

This project demonstrates my collaboration with the Educational Design team, but also how I have helped share better understanding of educational methodologies and technology issues facing the wider Arts faculty teaching community.

Arts Teaching & Learning Portfolio

Wordpress pages reproduced with permission from Monash University: Faculty of Arts

Work Integrated Learning Feedback Form

I used Javascript and HTML5 to develop this interactive tool for the Work Integrated Learning Team at Monash University. The tool assists client organisations to provide a review letter with feedback about their student interns on their Work Integrated Learning Internship.

Work Integrated Learning: Internship Feedback Letter

Reproduced with permission from Monash Univeristy Faculty of Arts

Arts Teaching & Learning Site

I developed the Making Videos page on the Monash University Arts Teaching and Learning Portfolio intranet WordPress site, allowing users to hover over links to receive tool-tip information about the content.

View the Making Videos Series video content

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Its A Dog's Life

I supervised the student team who developed the Its a Dog's Life Website through the Swinburne Multimedia Project.  I contributed expertise about web design as well as project management and system development methodologies, effective communication with industry clients and focus on user requirements.
Other Multimedia Projects supervised by Leigh

Reproduced with permission from Tanya Carter Designs

Getting Over It

I supervised the student team who developed the Getting Over It website through the Swinburne Multimedia Project. I contributed expertise about web design, animation and video production as well as project management and system development methodologies, effective communication with industry clients and focus on user requirements.
Other Multimedia Projects supervised by Leigh

Reproduced with permission from Kylie Brown and Flex Studio

Artist Portfolio

I supervised the student team who developed the Artist Portfolio website through the Swinburne Multimedia Project. I contributed expertise about web design as well as project management and system development methodologies, effective communication with industry clients and focus on user requirements.
Other Multimedia Projects supervised by Leigh

Reproduced with permission from Fantasy Studio

Life Blueprint 365

View modifications to the WordPress template at Life Blueprint 365

Reproduced with permission Life Blueprint 365 with Kylie Brown 2014

Party Clown Website

In my role as Multimedia Design teacher at Victoria University, I developed teaching resources to demonstrate the process for completing the website design project for the Web Design Diploma Subject.

In my teaching experience, vocational education students respond well when an instructor embarks on an equivalent project at the same time, to demonstrate the planning, requirements gathering and implementation processes involved in a multimedia project.

The resource I built during this process for Web Design: Photoshop & Dreamweaver is the Party Clown website.

Party Clown

Election 2010

I built the Election 2010 Website to showcase my skills with PHP and mysql.

The website displays election data personalised for each user from sql databases I designed. Database functionality not yet on display at Election 2010 Website

More of Leigh's student projects

Pizza Interactive

Interactive ordering menu developed with Flash and ActionScript in 2010.

I developed all the vector drawing, Flash animation & and ActionScript coding for this rich internet application.

Experience the Pizza Interactive

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Footy Statistics Site

The Footy Statistics Website was developed in 2009 for the Internet and World Wide Web 1 Subject as part of my Masters of Multimedia at Swinburne University of Technology.
Some small modifications have been made in 2015 to ready the site for web publication. The site accesses xml and xsl documents to present the statistics.
All html & xml code was created by me, Leigh Canny.

AFL Statistics

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Plastic Palaeontology

The Plastic Paleontology website was developed in 2009 for the Internet and World Wide Web 1 Subject as part of my Masters of Multimedia at Swinburne University of Technology.

Some small modifications have been made in 2012 to ready the site for web publication.

 All pictures were created by me, Leigh Canny All text copy was researched and written by me, Leigh Canny All html code was created by me, Leigh Canny

Plastic Palaeontology

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