Date: 2025
Role: eLearning Design, Project Management, Visual Design, SME Collaboration
Tools: Storyline, Vyond, Canvas, Camtasia, Illustrator, xAPI, UDOIT (Accessibility tool)
Goals:
To modernize and redesign a 6-hour asynchronous Suicide Prevention training for graduate counseling students, enhancing accessibility, engagement, and assessment authenticity while aligning the learning experience with real-world clinical practice.
Project Description
The Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology (MCP) program requested a redesign of its asynchronous suicide prevention training, originally built from lecture recordings and static slide PDFs. The legacy version was content-heavy, minimally interactive, and contained accessibility conflicts.
Collaborating with two faculty SMEs:
4Transformed assessments from multiple-choice quizzes to scenario-based reflections simulating real-world counseling encounters. Using Storyline variables, student reflections auto-generated into downloadable PDFs to bring to synchronous class discussions.
4Reconstructed video lectures by extracting and segmenting audio into short, topic-based sections.
4Developed animated Vyond videos featuring a lecturer avatar and key concept visuals for clarity and engagement.
4Redesigned the course in Articulate Storyline, organizing it into four modular units with a non-linear navigation menu and a flipped-classroom delivery strategy integrated into department courses.
4Converted PDF files to .mp3 audio files in UDOIT to support learner preferences;
4Implemented accessibility and design improvements using a customizable Storyline template to ensure visual consistency, readability, and ease of future content updates.
Impact
4Replaced passive learning with interactive, experiential engagement aligned to professional counseling practice.
4Improved accessibility and visual design, eliminating flashing content and poor contrast.
4Strengthened integration between asynchronous and synchronous components, increasing learner preparedness for discussion and skill application.
4Created a scalable, update-friendly design, extending the course lifespan and supporting sustainable use across multiple MCP courses.
Four-module Storyline course with intuitive, non-linear navigation.
Real-world, authentic, clinical scenarios replaced traditional multiple-choice assessments.
Real-world, authentic, clinical scenarios replaced traditional multiple-choice assessments.
Vyond animation created from original lecture audio for improved engagement.
Vyond animation created from original lecture audio for improved engagement.
Vyond animation created from original lecture audio for improved engagement.
