Usability and Visual Design: What can I do to help my students see where to go and what to do?

Designing for usability helps everyone. If the course and course materials are usable from the start it helps maintain student motivation and also reduces the amount of time you spend re-explaining and fixing during the course.

Learning Objectives

Designing for usability helps everyone. If the course and course materials are usable from the start, it reduces frustration, helps maintain student motivation, and reduces the amount of time you spend re-explaining and fixing during the course. By the end of this module we hope that you will:

explain the ways in which usability - including findability and visual design - can support student success, and
make a plan to enhance usability in your course

Table of Contents

7.1 Usability and Findability

7.2 Visual Design for Usability

7.3 Improving Usability and Visual Design

7.4 Usability and Visual Design: Practicing with Visual Design

7.5 Usability and Visual Design: Resources

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