In this workshop, you will use visual design principles to make your syllabus more attractive, efficient and effective. Handouts are commonly limited to black text on a white background. Using color and images can add meaning and make materials more effective. Crowded pages are hard to digest; a little extra space can make it easier to follow.

Bring your syllabus and give it a makeover!

Improve student learning by updating a syllabus so that it follows principles of visual design and incorporates images, color, and other design elements.

1. Syllabus as a Word document or Google Doc

2. Optional: Mac laptop if you're uncomfortable with Windows

• Presentation slides [April 2019]

• Handout [April 2019)

White Space is Not Your Enemy, by Golombisky & Hagen
(online access - ND only)

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, by Weinschenk
(online access - ND only)

Graphics for Learning, by Clark & Lyons
(online access - ND only)

Hands-on resources

• Images - Pixabay | Flaticon 
• Fonts & colors - Google Fonts | Adobe Color 
• Color vision - VisCheck
• Templates - Google Drive folder 

Visual syllabus examples from Notre Dame

• CDT 30423 - 2019 (Clark & Turner)
• ACMS 10145 - 2018 (Woodard)
• ARCH 53231 - 2016 (Zeiger)
• ROFR 30320 - 2015 (Haake)

More

• How to make a visually awesome handout 
• Building a visual syllabus
• Three-minute Handout Makeover (video)
• Creative Approaches to the Syllabus (ProfHacker)

 Certificates:

May help complete a requirement for the Teaching Well Using Technology program.