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 

• Handout

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)

How to make a visually awesome handout

Three-minute Handout Makeover 

Resources: Pixabay | Flaticon | Google Fonts | Adobe Color | VisCheck

Visual syllabus

• Building a visual syllabus
• Visually Appealing Syllabi –  Anne-Marie Womack (Texas A&M)
• Creative Approaches to the Syllabus (ProfHacker)
   
• CDT 30423 syllabus (Clark & Turner, ND)
• Advanced French Comp (Haake, ND)
• CMS 137 syllabus (Bill GX, K State)
• US History II (Hangen)

Google Drive folder with downloadble templates

 Certificates:

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