Central Saint Martins is undertaking an exciting initiative to improve the Moodle experience for students and staff. Mandated by the College Academic Committee and senior management team, the Moodle Shared Designs project aims to address key issues identified in a recent CSM Moodle audit report and student surveys.
Main objectives
The main objectives are to enhance accessibility on Moodle for all students, ensure consistent navigation across courses and programmes, and improve information management and structures. This will facilitate an optimal learning experience and ease of information retrieval for BA Fine Art students.
The core deliverables include:
- Developing a standard baseline for essential course content across programme, course, stage, and unit Moodle pages
- Co-designing the Moodle structure, academic content, and navigation with course teams
- Incorporating accessibility best practices for layout, presentation, and communication
The project will provide semi-modular templates mapping where key content should be located, creating clear alignment with the student journey and course delivery. Guidelines will cover content organisation within pages as well as a framework for consistently presenting teaching materials, while communication through Moodle will also be investigated.
Accessibility guidance
While creating the actual accessible course content itself is out of scope, the project will deliver training for staff on the new templates, including orientation and accessibility guidance.
First up: BA Fine Art
BA Fine Art is the first course to be involved in the project. Through a series of consultations and workshops, the various students and staff bodies will have opportunities to provide insights in their experience of their course on Moodle, with further opportunities to participate in the co-design of specific course components.
Changemaker
Mariia Korneeva, currently studying on MA Arts and Science will be working with the CSM Digital Learning team in making sure the project deliverables are inclusive and accessible by reaching out to students with a wide variety of learning styles.
What is next
The Fashion programme is scheduled to undergo a similar process in view to implement changes for academic year 25/26. Further courses will be contacted in due course.
Please contact csmdigitallearning@arts.ac.uk if you would you like to hear more about the project.
Project timeline for BA Fine Art
March 2024
Consultation period
April
Mockup and Prototyping
May
Designs sign off
June
Guidance development
July
Course rollover for next academic year