Lein Shory
eLearning Specialist. LMS Adminstrator. Problem Solver.
Latest Project
I worked in Moodle for almost 15 years, but my organization decided to switch to Canvas. So a longtime client’s training modules had to be migrated. And I needed to learn Canvas.
Original content page
A few years back I contracted with a programmer to build a Moodle-Wordpress integration so we could build our course content pages using all of WordPress’ many features. This is an example from one of the training modules, and what I needed to migrate. Since only the course shell and assessment was in Moodle, that part was relatively easy. This part was more challenging.
New Canvas Version
Canvas does not offer the same level of features as WordPress for content pages, and I wanted to avoid an add-in like Cidi-Tools. So I created fake “tabs” for movement between Canvas pages, and employed a few inline style tricks to emulate what I had built in WordPress with shortcodes. Both the client and I were pleased with the results.
Working by myself, the project took several months to complete, but in the process I learned a great deal about Canvas: page design, quizzes, navigation, Canvas Catalog, Canvas Commons, and a LOT about reporting.
Digital Age Educator
One of the things I’m most proud of during my time at eMINTS was the creation of the Digital Age Educator program. I led the creation of a microcredentialed course track that would be a sort of “mini-eMINTS” program for teachers who weren’t part of our comp program.
Over six months we updated four courses and created four more, then applied for received the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Seal of Alignment in 2017.
Course Design Evolution
When I started at eMINTS in 2009, our own eMINTS eLearning for Educators content pages were basic static HTML sites built in Dreamweaver. They went through several iterations over the years, always with the goal of following ISTE and iNACOL standards.
2009
Here’s what the eLearning for Educators content pages looked like when I arrived.
2011
This is the course page design I implemented and launched around 2010-11. I look at it and cringe a bit now, but it was a long time ago. Still, it was an upgrade.
2017
I was on a team that selected that a new eMINTS logo, and the new color palette offered a chance for a new, brighter look. With a staff to help, we converted all the old static html content pages to WordPress and implemented this new design.
Print Work
For several years at MOREnet I designed their conference programs. I was already family with Dreamweaver from my web designer experience in Chicago, but here I was able to hone my Photoshop skills and also really learn InDesign.
