DLS Teambuild

Digital Learning Specialist (DLS) are the graphic design department in OES's Learning Design team, and needed some basic training in topics around CSS coding. 

I was invited by DLS to provide some insights into the following HTML/CSS styling topics.

• CSS named colours
• Styling for Canvas vs Moodle
• Demonstration of the effects of styling elements.

 

Video content and Moodle pages presented with permission from OES.

Watch the following video which captures the DLS Teambuild training from February 15th 2023.

Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT

I worked in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team of Engineering academics to develop Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT.

The SharePoint site shares stories of teaching innovations from across Melbourne School of Engineering & IT. The site launched during 2020's COVID19 lock-down and so the focus became sharing innovations in remote and online teaching and learning. Regular focus topics included digital assessment, synchronous and asynchronous learning activities, remote management of groupwork and alternatives to specialist learning activities like laboratory classes.

The site enabled teachers to learn from colleagues successes and encouraged isolated teachers to attempt new innovations in their subjects.

Melbourne University Sharepoint allows external visitors with Microsoft accounts (ie hotmail, outlook, etc)
Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT

Thank you for setting up the ground work for a new TLU. The SharePoint site and the materials you continue to churn out, are of excellent standard. Well done

Operations Manager of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering (EMI)
2020

Sharepoint pages reproduced with permission from Melbourne University Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Using data to understand family violence

I developed 2 assessment tools for assignments for a Using data to understand family violence teaching unit. I used Moodle's Database activity to develop a tool where students' submitted responses are fashioned into a formatted moodle page.

Assignment 1: Injury Prevention Matrix

Assignment 3: Data Quality Framework

Moodle pages reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

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

Proficient French H5P & Moodle

In 2018 I began collaboration with an academic in the school of Lanuages, Literacy, Communication & Literature to develop of the H5P Grammar component of Proficient French. The online, interactive approach was intended to alleviate the problem of students of Proficient French being unprepared for their class-time seminar. The H5P interactives guide the student user through various French grammar topics using Interactive Video, Question Sets, and Fill the Blanks exercises. The allocation of graded marks and the carefully constructed interactive sequences using Moodle's restricted access functionality, helped motivate students to prepare for their face to face lessons.

Proficient French Moodle site

The 2019 redevelopment of the Proficient French units saw further refinement of the H5P interactives based on student feedback about their learning experience.

Moodle 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

VU Collaborate College Themes

The Learning Environments Team produced templates for VU Collaborate spaces. As part of this work, Colleges have their own unique themes/banners.
With my role as Navbar Manager, I developed the banners,  images and wording to accommodate the features existing generic plain theme.

See more of Leigh's Victoria University projects

College of Arts Theme

College of Business Theme

College of Education Theme

College of Engineering and Science Theme

College of Law & Justice Theme

College of Sport & Exercise Science Theme

VU College

VU Institute of Technology

College of Health & Biomedicine Theme

Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

Learning Map Template

Learning Maps are highly interactive instructional tools that allow Victoria University teaching staff to self-train through a learning process with links to other existing resources. 

In this case, a step-by-step guide to producing Learning Maps, themselves. This internal document was intended to train staff to maintain and develop the Learning Maps in my absence after 2015.

I redeveloped the learning maps in 2014 from an original University of Minnesota concept using all new:

• Blended Learning Team content
• VUCollaborate Joomla helpsite compatible HTML5
• Victoria University styled CSS3 
• and Javascript/jQuery.

Test the learning map's interactivity by visiting Learning Map: Template

Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

Learning Map: Space Creation

Learning Maps are highly interactive instructional tools that allow Victoria University teaching staff to self-train through a learning process with links to other existing resources. 

In this case, what teaching staff need to know to request and create a new space for VU Collaborate.

I redeveloped the learning maps in 2014 from an original University of Minnesota concept using all new:

• Blended Learning Team content
• VUCollaborate Joomla helpsite compatible HTML5
• Victoria University styled CSS3 
• and Javascript/jQuery.

Test the learning map's interactivity by visiting Learning Map: Space Creation

Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

VU Collaborate Staff Help Site

My support role at VU includes the establishment and maintenance of help websites including VU Collaborate Instructor Help using Joomla CMS.

• adapted my CSS skills to make use of Joomla’s LESS styling language and Joomla’s compiling system
• developed the tag-cloud tool for improved navigation
• upgraded search functionality
• conducted staff and student user experience reviews
• started a feedback forum to gather instructor feedback on help-site content
• comply with the University's accessibility policies
• collaborate with University central web-design & marketing teams to ensure consistent user experience

Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

Learning Map: Communications

Learning Maps are highly interactive instructional tools that allow Victoria University teaching staff to self-train through a learning process with links to other existing resources. 

In this case, he process of integrating VU Collaborate’s numerous communication tools into units to facilitate the communications between staff and students and among students themselves.

I redeveloped the learning maps in 2014 from an original University of Minnesota concept using all new:

• Blended Learning Team content
• VUCollaborate Joomla helpsite compatible HTML5
• Victoria University styled CSS3 
• and Javascript/jQuery.

Test the learning map's interactivity by visiting Learning Map: Communication

  Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

Learning Map: Content

Learning Maps are highly interactive instructional tools that allow Victoria University teaching staff to self-train through a learning process with links to other existing resources. 

In this case, how and what teaching staff need to know to create content, add activities and reuse content within VU Collaborate

I redeveloped the learning maps in 2014 from an original University of Minnesota concept using all new:

• Blended Learning Team content
• VUCollaborate Joomla helpsite compatible HTML5
• Victoria University styled CSS3 
• and Javascript/jQuery.

Test the learning map's interactivity by visiting Learning Map: Content

Reproduced with permission from Learning Environments Team, Centre for Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Victoria University