show and tell #1 IDT 650

1. Learning a LMS
Show and Tell #1
Group Project
Joe, Hilary, Lisa, and Belinda

2. Our team for the project “Using a Learning Management System met via Blackboard Chat on Saturday evening to discuss our
process and assign responsibilities. We discussed the type of instructional content and audience target for this MM project. As
a group we agreed to create a tutorial on the use of canvas, an open, user-friendly, cloud-native learning management system.
We selected our target audience to be facilitators so the tutorial will be based upon basic knowledge for first time users of the
system.
Introduction
❖ The objective for our team project is to develop a tutorial and
demonstration of the Learning Management System “Canvas”, an
open, user-friendly, cloud-native learning management system.
❖ The client has been identified as the Naval Criminal Investigative
Service (NCIS) administrative department.
❖ NCIS is in need of a delivery vehicle for the establishment of an in-
house training program utilizing alternative learning methods in
support of a student-centered approach for professional development
of its global workforce.
❖ Our target audience will be facilitators; the tutorial will revolve around
basic capabilities and functionality for first time users of the LMS.

3. Our team for the project “Using a Learning Management System met via Blackboard Chat on Saturday evening to discuss our
process and assign responsibilities. We discussed the type of instructional content and audience target for this MM project. As
a group we agreed to create a tutorial on the use of canvas, an open, user-friendly, cloud-native learning management system.
We selected our target audience to be facilitators so the tutorial will be based upon basic knowledge for first time users of the
system.
Learners
❖ Immediate Stakeholders
➢ NCIS Administrative Subject Matter Experts involved in
curriculum development projects.
➢ NCIS Training Academy ISD professionals who will be assisting
in the development of future curriculum for the organization
❖ Future Stakeholders
➢ NCIS Subject Matter Experts in a variety of specialty fields who
will use the LMS for producing future courses
➢ NCIS personnel seeking self-paced instruction which fits into
their daily schedule
➢ NCIS personnel stationed overseas with limited access to
training opportunities

4. Objectives
❖ NCIS is previewing various Learning Management
Systems for identification of a system which meets
the below requirements.
➢ Web-based accessibility from any location
➢ Hosting computer based learning modules
➢ Capability of integrating live presentations
➢ Provides assessment capabilities
❖ Our project will showcase the capabilities of Canvas
and its potential to be easily managed by our client
❖ Our tutorial is intended to motivate and achieve
buy-in from the client in the use of multimedia as a
learning tool

5. Features
❖Our team intends on showcasing the abilities of
Canvas by focusing on:
➢ Ease of use for implementing technology
into the learning environment
➢ Mobile friendly
➢ Dependable
➢ Saves time and money
❖Camtasia - using Camtasia screencasting, our
group plants on making a video explaining new user
basic navigation and course creation

6. Cognitive Theories and Visual Literacy
Spatial and Temporal Contiguity Principle (Mayer, 2009, chapters 7 & 8).
 Tutorials will show the steps/tools for course creation at the same time that the learners will be
seeing the information on the screen.
 Visual elements allow learners to practice what they have learned in real time. As a video
tutorial, the learners can replay as needed.
 Using these various visual and auditory elements, learners will be able to construct an overall
view of the program and how it can fit the needs to their own learners.
 Coherence Principle (Mayer, 2009, chapter 12)
 To prevent extraneous processing, our project intends to focus on specific information
regarding course creation for this particular audience.
Signaling Principle (Mayer 2009, Chapter 12)
 Utilizing on screen cues such as the location of features and elements will assist with the
understanding of important information
Redundancy Principle (Mayer 2009, Chapter 12)
 Limiting the on screen text to visual cues will assist in deeper learning from the tutorial and
narration

7. Rationale of Development Decisions
1. Our tutorial will be given using the presentation-modes view. Material will be presented through visual cues
accompanied by audible narration. This is considered a user learner-centered approach because the new material is
process by learner through two modes, visual and text-based (p.8).
2. The goal of our project is for participants to take what they learn through the tutorial and apply it to their own
course set up in Canvas. This takes a knowledge-construction approach in that the participants are using multimedia
as a tool for both learning new information and applying it for their specific purpose (p.17).
3. In this tutorial, we will be using integrated (both word-based and image-based) representations (p. 74). We will
use a video tutorial made using Camtasia to show the steps of creating and populating a course in Canvas. This will
have visual images and audible narration to explain the process. They will be delivered using a simultaneous
presentation of material in that the learner will be seeing and hearing about the same step at the same time, creating a
temporal contiguity (p. 156).

8. References
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia Learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.