The challenge
AUT was moving to Canvas across the university. A direct migration could have reproduced inconsistent structures and existing digital-learning problems in a new platform.
AUT instead wanted to use the transition to establish a stronger, more consistent approach to digital pedagogy while giving instructors practical tools to build and maintain their own courses.
The approach
Curio collaborated with AUT's altLAB on a needs analysis spanning the learning experience and authoring process. The team designed a component-based system of common page types and interactive elements that could be assembled without requiring raw HTML or repeated specialist intervention.
What Curio delivered
- Collaborative needs analysis with altLAB
- Templated course homepages and module overviews
- Assessment and content page patterns
- Reusable knowledge checks, flip cards and accordions
- A component-based Canvas design system
- Delivery through Curio's Course Builder authoring tool
- Greater independence for instructors creating on-brand pages
The impact
AUT gained a reusable course framework for the migration rather than a set of individually redesigned pages. Instructors could continue building within the agreed approach, supporting consistency beyond the initial implementation.
