Ryan John - Canvas LMS Course Design

Create and deliver interactive online courses on the Canvas learning management system

Ryan John

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This book is dedicated to all of the incredible educators and resilient students worldwide who have persevered through the experience of school during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially my amazing colleagues and outstanding students at Lman Manhattan Preparatory School. I would like to thank Frank Abrahams, Heeyoung Kim, Shaun Holland, Scott Hoerl, Boris Villic, and the many other mentors I encountered at Westminster Choir College and Rider University for the incredible opportunities they afforded me during my time there. Many thanks to Lisa Nowicki for her decades of mentorship and support, to Helen Vermeychuk for guiding and inspiring me as a writer, and to all those at Sanford School who have helped me throughout the years. A huge thank you to everyone at Packt Publishing, especially Abhishek Jadhav, Hayden Edwards, Pavan Ramchandani, Divij Kotian, Manthan Patel, and Saurabh Kadave. Finally, thank you to my family and to my husband, Joshua, for your unending care and support.

Ryan John

Ryan John teaches at Lman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he has served as an adjunct professor, technical assistant, and course designer for online learning. Ryan spent 3 years as a technical assistant for the pilot program of Canvas LMS at Rider University and has delivered over a dozen online courses for students in middle school through adult continuing education. Ryan has presented his scholarly work in the US and abroad, and his publications include Canvas LMS Course Design (2014), Planning Instruction in Music (2015), Becoming Musical (2017), and Planning Instruction in Music Online (2020).

Shaun Holland is an instructional designer and LMS administrator with over 20 years of experience in the administration and application of LMSs. Shaun has cultivated a specialization in online course design, single and programmatic course design, and game-based (game theory) course design where courses are sculpted around the idea of incorporating game-based mechanics. A veteran of US higher education, Shaun has extensive experience transitioning from one LMS to another having completed this process at both a small private school and a large state university. Shaun currently works at a large state university in New Jersey where he helps build and deliver thousands of fully online courses and several graduate degree programs and undergraduate certification courses.