Design Services is here to support course and instructional design needs as you work to build your course in One Canvas.
- Would you like to know how asynchronous video can be critical to students learning success?
- Would you like some inclusive and active learning strategies to engage your students in self-paced courses?
- Are you interested in ensuring your self-paced course is accessible to support students with diverse learning needs?
How do I get started?
Our department is here to support course and instructional design needs as you work to build your course in One Canvas.
- Would you like to know how asynchronous video can be critical to students learning success?
- Would you like some inclusive and active learning strategies to engage your students in self-paced courses?
- Are you interested in ensuring your self-paced course is accessible to support students with diverse learning needs?
We can help with instructional and media design support.
Instructional design support
We partner with Self-Paced Instructors to...
- Design and develop self-paced course content, including assessments and activities
- Create course content that embodies instructional excellence, innovation and best practices
- Define self-paced objectives
- Work on a plan to incorporate appropriate media to drive student engagement with the material
- Help to ensure educational quality of course content, inducing alignment between course activities and objectives
Media design support
We partner with Self-Paced Instructors to...
- Participate in designing and developing learning media, video and graphic elements to create engaging course content
- Support ongoing media and digital development needs for One Canvas
- Provide UX consultation, best practices and support for all distance learning and online modalities
Program coordination support
We partner with Departmental Course Schedulers to...
- Provide customized course scheduling support in myZou to ensure accuracy and consistency in course set-up, edits and maintenance
Trainings & resources
We offer a number of trainings and resources that may be helpful to you.
Additional information
- For the related services above, request assistance from the Design Services group.
- For technical issues related to Canvas or tools used in self-paced courses, request assistance from the Academic Technology group.