{"id":79,"date":"2018-05-24T01:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T01:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emedia.rmit.edu.au\/oedvedesign\/?p=79"},"modified":"2018-05-25T05:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T05:55:46","slug":"rich-content-page-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emedia.rmit.edu.au\/oedvedesign\/index.php\/2018\/rich-content-page-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Content Page Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the journey of building for the Certificate III in Individual Support<\/a> we realised our team needed to build a large suite of inter-activities for text heavy content.<\/p>\n

Six months ago, RMIT was rolling out Instructure Canvas<\/a> university wide, the implementation was in it’s infancy, and very little customisation was available that would give content the appeal to keep students engaged.<\/p>\n

Despite being an online learning system, Canvas permits the embedding of limited front end technologies. These are the things that make online content sing. Simple click and reveal events were permitted but not others. The Canvas WYSIWYG editor will strip most css and javascript and only permit text, images and tables.<\/p>\n

From a learning design perspective, this is difficult. Especially for the subject matter on ethics, law, regulations and procedures in aged care and disability services. Some of this content is quite dry, but important to deliver as part of accreditation requirements. Making it engaging was our mandate.<\/p>\n

We decided to build our interactive content and embed directly into Canvas using iframes. We built a system to make iframes work cleanly in Canvas (you can read about it here<\/a>), and went to work building a page builder that would permit interactive tables, accordions, flip cards, quizzes, etc and H5P content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A showcase of these technologies in action can be seen below.<\/p>\n

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