Our team of four rebuilt 40 graduate faculty's existing Blackboard course web sites representing three graduate programs, to better align with best practice design and delivery of hybrid and fully online teaching and learning.
 

The objective was to create clear user roadmaps for accessing course content, interacting with faculty (social presence) and alignment to institutional business and academic outcomes. This included streamlining the UI of menu items, Blackboard content areas, assignments, discussions, and assessment tools from multiple clicks to single click. 

Our team improved the web site taxonomy by standardizing tool and micro labels, and implementing the MLA style guide across digital and document assets (from tool labels and tool tips to downloadable PDF files).

We rewrote and copyedited instructional guidelines to minimize cognitive load for both faculty and students, while providing a clear calls to action. We created templates for faculty artifacts such as syllabi, course outlines and PowerPoint lectures and we established across-the-curricula file naming conventions.

We tested HP 5 interactive assessments and made recommendations for improvement.

The University of Abu Dhabi’s ADU is ranked a top 2.8% universities world-wide and is accredited by the UAE Ministry of Education and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The College of Business is both EQUIS and AACSB accredited, only 1% of business schools worldwide have this double accreditation. The College of Engineering has received international accreditation from the world-renowned ABET.