Designing an effective and engaging digital learning activity

Audience: Academic staff, Professional staff

Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026

Times: 10.00 to 11.30

Key details: A practical workshop supporting teaching staff to design engaging digital learning activities using a design first approach.

Target audience

This workshop is suitable for teaching staff at any stage of their digital teaching practice who design learning activities for on campus or online delivery and want to take a more intentional, design led approach to using digital tools. The workshop offers an opportunity to design or redesign a specific learning activity, while developing practical skills in digital learning.

Qualifications needed

None

Course pre-work

Participants should arrive with an idea of a digital learning activity that they want to design or redesign during the workshop.

Course information

This hands?on workshop supports teaching staff to design effective and engaging digital learning activities, starting with learning design rather than technology. Participants will define their learners, learning outcomes, and context, then create a visual storyboard to represent the learner experience. Using this storyboard, they will explore and evaluate digital tools that best support their design, leaving with a clear, transferable plan for a digital learning activity.

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • take a design-first approach to creating digital learning activity
  • choose appropriate digital tools to facilitate digital learning experiences
  • access appropriate digital learning resources and support

Venue

Gateway, Seminar 4 & 5


Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk