Utilizing Canvas, Lucid Chart,
and Articulate Rise
This project served as part of my coursework through The University of West Florida: by working collaboratively in a group of 5 students, we had to design a lesson related to a facet of distance learning. The lesson needed to include interactive components and a final assessment. The lesson was based in Canvas with an imbedded component from Articulate Rise. The group collaborated using Microsoft Teams and LucidChart. Following the project, we each had to individually evaluate it using the Quality Matters Rubric.
Lesson Learning Goals
- Examine communication challenges in distance learning
- Examine methods for overcoming communication challenges in distance learning
- Analyze communication challenges in a distance learning setting and justify the use of strategies to overcome them
- Defend the use of strategies to address authentic distance learning communication challenges
Components
Scenarios
Although one of the last components of the lesson, this was the showpiece of the course, so it is listed first. Content of the lessons – identifying the source of a challenge and a strategy to mitigate or solve the challenge – led students to these real-world scenarios of challenges that they could face in distance learning. If students misidentified the cause, then their solution options were weak; if they did not select an option that would solve the problem, they had to play the challenge again.
Scenario 1: Non-native English speaking students in an online course were not completing the discussion posts. This is an example of a successful scenarios navigation:
Scenario 1: Analysis of Challenge 
Scenario 1: Options for solutions 
Scenario 1: Successful completion
Scenario 2: Student feedback revealed that online learners felt that their online literature course focused too much on reading assignments and writing essays, and wanted an interactive component. This is an example of an unsuccessful scenarios navigation:
Scenario 2: Analysis of challenge 
Scenario 2: Identification of solution 
Scenario 2: Unsuccessful conclusion – must replay scenario
Canvas
Learners started in Canvas with an introduction to the topic and learning goals. After participating in the embedded Articulate Rise lesson, they showed mastery of the final learning goal in a discussion post:
Module Menu 
Introduction Page 
Embedded Articulate Rise lesson 
Culminating discussion post
Articulate Rise
My section focused on communication strategies. As it was halfway through the lesson, I tried to organize content into smaller interactive chunks; for example, rather than reading a paragraph about building a communication plan, they clicked through 5 embedded slides with one or two sentences each.
Students clicked on nodes embedded over a screenshot of an image to hear more information. For accessibility, a transcript of the audio was included.
The aforementioned slideshow – students clicked through to read different steps on creating a communication plan.
Students clicked tabs to read strategies for ongoing effective communication.
Audrey Eagle 