Conference Registration           WebCT Homepage

Description:	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) add professionalism and consistency to WebCT courses. CSS provides designers with an efficient way to brand course content and improve course usability because students become familiar with the customized look-and-feel of courses. This session will share the pedagogical and technical benefits of using CSS in WebCT, as well as a workflow and process for integrating CSS at the program level.
Presentation Format:	Poster
Topic:	Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and student support models
Target Audience:	Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors, E-learning Managers
Appropriate Audience Level:	Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version:
Abstract Text:	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) add professionalism and consistency to WebCT courses. CSS can brand a program or provide individual designers with an efficient way to customize their course content. An academic program at Simon Fraser University required a common look and feel for their program. CSS is a fast way to implement a consistent style to a course, and it can be reused in multiple courses. Changes at the CSS-level automatically update all courses. Icons were designed to give students visual cues as to how the learning module was organized. These icons also encourage faculty to design online content in logically organized chunks that were used consistently throughout all the learning modules. This gives course designers and instructors an attractive and logical framework in which to design learning. Students also know how information is organized and presented, so they could focus on their learning. Team members included a media designer, an HTML expert, instructional designers and a program director. This presentation will discuss the pedagogical and technical benefits of using CSS in WebCT, and will showcase a workflow and process for integrating CSS at a program level.