Instructional Design Resources

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Sean Zdenek, PhD – Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
Sean Zdenek, PhD – Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
Accessibility
·seanzdenek.com·
Sean Zdenek, PhD – Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
DesignPLUS User Guide
DesignPLUS User Guide
If your institution has CIDI Labs (a plugin for Canvas), you should check out these guides. In particular, I recommend enabling the "advanced" features.
HTML + CSS#Canvas LMS
·cidilabs.instructure.com·
DesignPLUS User Guide
Canvas Style Guide
Canvas Style Guide
This page details the CSS class names you can use in Canvas. The style guide is no longer being updated BUT after some researching, it seems the class names included will continue to work in Canvas for the foreseeable future. Note that form elements (e.g. ) are stripped from the content editor so you can't really use the HTML in the "Forms" section of the guide.
HTML + CSS#Canvas LMS
·canvas.instructure.com·
Canvas Style Guide
Tables Tutorial | WAI W3C
Tables Tutorial | WAI W3C
This page goes over creating accessible tables with multiple headers, different sized rows and columns, and other irregularities. There's some work that goes into making tables accessible and many LMSs do not use good defaults (for example, Canvas does not add a header row to tables by default).
HTML + CSS#accessibility
·w3.org·
Tables Tutorial | WAI W3C
Images Tutorial | WAI W3C
Images Tutorial | WAI W3C
Having accessible images online is about more than alt text. For example, what are you supposed to do if you're using an image as a link? Follow the guides in this tutorial to ensure your images are accessibility.
HTML + CSS#accessibility
·w3.org·
Images Tutorial | WAI W3C
Styling Lists | MDN
Styling Lists | MDN
This guide goes over different list styles (alphabet, roman, square, etc).
HTML + CSS
·developer.mozilla.org·
Styling Lists | MDN
CSS Values and Units | MDN
CSS Values and Units | MDN
This guide goes over some foundational info you'll want to know when sizing elements and changing their colors.
HTML + CSS
·developer.mozilla.org·
CSS Values and Units | MDN
Instructional Design Rubric
Instructional Design Rubric
Detailed descriptions of standards for online courses. Originally devloped for students in ASTE 7090: Instructional Design for Distance Education, a graduate-level course taught at Utah State University by Amy Spielmaker.
Course Evaluation#akspiel
·akspiel.com·
Instructional Design Rubric