Need part-time instructional designer.

[th]

I'm new here. Happy to meet everyone. 

I live in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and am an adjunct professor starting up my first online course using Canvas. My school doesn't have an instructional designer yet, and in any case it is 700 miles away. I would like to get in contact with an instructional designer in the Raleigh-Durham area. 

Any suggestions? 

[dhulsey]

Hey,  @th ‌. You can find all sorts of help  here in the Canvas community just by asking. What sorts of things are you  needing help with?

[th]

Kona,

I need to sit down with an instructional designer who can show me the

basics of building a course.

I know I can look at videos and such, but it would be a far more effective

use of my time if I can have a live person there to interact with. It

probably will be for 2 - 3 hours.

I live in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Tyler

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, kona@richland.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>

[Stef_retired]

 @th  Welcome to the Canvas Community! If you have a formal job position you can post it in the https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/pandas?sr=search&searchId=cc5fae66-0bfd-478a-bff9-440d56193d8...‌ group here: https://community.canvaslms.com/message/4403?sr=search&searchId=973eacd0-1c47-4b2a-ba1c-5f14c9f2c66e...‌

[awilliams]

Hey  @th ,

I don't think you should necessarily stop your quest for some face to face (f2f) assistance, but there are many many resources and methods for getting started with course design and/or instructional design basics. The community college I work for also does not have an instructional designer but we have taken advantage of the limitless potential of this community to support our faculty (new or vets) in creating courses that we think look and work pretty good. While not an example of an academic course, you can take a look at our Resource Center for Faculty to see that with help, you can do it!

Canvas Commons:

I'm not sure how you're using Canvas exactly (Self-Hosted, Free-For-Teachers‌, or through an institutional subscription), but you may have access to Canvas Commons, and there will be a lot of resources there you can import into a course and start using right away. One great keyword to search for there is "Template." There are others and maybe some other folks can leave those in a comment here. Do a search here in the community for "Canvas Commons" to learn more.

Example Courses:

There are several documents here in the community that will allow you to access some example courses that you can start with and just modify to suit your needs. If you were to have trouble with anything along the way, the community will, of course, be here to assist you.

Example Courses by Subject 

Example Courses by Audience 

Canvas Training Courses 

and this beauty of a resource,

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5037-course-design-resource-index-collaboration 

Good luck, and keep us updated on how it's going.

[th]

Stephanie,

I've gotten advice from 3 or 4 folks, thank you.

But no one has come forward to take the position. I guess there's no one in

the area that I live who does Canvas instructional design.

Maybe I should try a local university…

Tyler

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, stefaniesanders <instructure@jiveon.com>

[mwatson2]

Tyler,

I live in Raleigh. Where are you more specifically? Perhaps I could help. I'm not a professional instructional designer, but I've set up many Canvas courses over the past few years.

[th]

Stephanie,

Thank you for replying. I would definitely like to talk with you. I live in

Morrisville and am preparing a course on theological apologetics for the

Unification Theological Seminary.

I'm at a stage at which I don't know what I don't know (as the Landmark

people put it). But I'm a pretty quick learner, I think. I've taught online

using Adobe Connect, ten or twelve courses. But Canvas is a new

environment. The job might be rather quick, like an hour or two, or not.

My direct e-mail address is th@uts.edu. If you would like to pursue this,

please send me a note.

Best wishes,

Tyler

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:46 PM, stefaniesanders <instructure@jiveon.com>

[Stef_retired]

 @th , the above reply is evidently meant for  @mwatson2 ‌. Tyler, you might want to log into the Community and view the entire discussion in situ, as it were; it will make more sense then.