Instructional Design & Technology
Our team supports L&S instructors in designing courses, activities, and assignments. We can help you select and learn to use technologies that enhance your teaching and learning. Our goal is to help you create deep and rigorous learning experiences that draw upon evidence-based learning experience design.
We can work with you on your timeline to set and reach your goals, focusing on collaboration, sustainable solutions, and iteration over time.
Examples of Our Work
We can partner to help you:
- Plan and design a newly approved course.
- Revise assessments in Canvas to better align with course goals.
- Improve the organization and aesthetic appeal of your Canvas course.
- Develop activities and assignments to scaffold student learning through your course.
- More efficiently use Canvas and other tools communicate, grade, and provide feedback.
- Create, implement, and review mid-semester evaluations to support and guide innovations.
Get Started
Our work typically starts with one 45-minute virtual meeting. Please share information with us about your design challenges and goals. We will reach out promptly to schedule a meeting to learn more and begin designing together.
Course Planning & Design Tools
Our templates can help you begin planning and designing your course.
Did you know?
Once a month we feature simple tips for using Canvas and other campus tools more effectively.
Instructional Design & Technology Staff
Get Technical Help from DoIT
Looking to resolve a technical issue with Canvas, Zoom, Piazza, Kaltura, Top Hat or other learning technology?
Technical Help
The DoIT Help Desk provides free tech support and troubleshooting, including questions about all UW-supported learning technologies.
Technology Workshops
The Learn@UW team leads technology workshops to get you started each semester with tools like Canvas, Top Hat, UDOIT accessibility checker, and Kaltura.