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A progression planning tool for University of Sydney ADP students

Students across the University of Sydney's architecture, design and planning programmes had no single view of their progress. We built a progression planning tool so they could stop piecing it together themselves.

The challenge

Students were enrolled across multiple programs without a single view of their academic progression. Understanding completed requirements and future study involved piecing information together across systems and documents.

The School needed a clearer student experience that also fit the University's institutional Canvas standards and could be managed internally.

The approach

Curio designed and implemented a progression-planning tool inside the existing Canvas environment. Stakeholder feedback shaped the experience through iterative cycles rather than a single requirements handover.

Training documentation supported the ADP team in managing the solution after implementation.

What Curio delivered

  • Stakeholder discovery and iterative design
  • A visual academic-progression experience
  • Integration with institutional Canvas
  • Support for pathways across multiple programs
  • Alignment with university platform standards
  • Staff training and administration documentation

The impact

Students gained a clearer way to see their pathway, while the School received a solution its own team could administer.

Client
University of Sydney
Sector
Higher education
Platform
Canvas LMS
Services
UX, custom development, integration and staff enablement
Initiative
School of Architecture, Design and Planning

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