Following the success of the live Empowering Creativity with AI workshop, there was a clear need for a self-paced version that educators could return to at their own pace, revisiting activities, exploring tools independently, and downloading resources for classroom use. This Articulate Rise 360 course was designed as a standalone companion piece, extending the reach of the original workshop beyond its live audience and providing a repeatable, scalable professional learning resource for Arts and Design educators.
Content mapping from workshop to course
Translated the live workshop arc - icebreaker, tool exploration, co-creation, ethics - into a structured self-paced flow using ADDIE, ensuring activities worked without a live facilitator present.
Rise 360 course build
Developed interactive Rise modules with embedded multimedia, guided AI tool exploration activities, creative challenges, and self-check knowledge checks aligned to learning objectives.
UDL-aligned design
Applied Universal Design for Learning principles throughout - multiple means of engagement, representation, and action - ensuring the course was accessible to educators across all levels of digital confidence.
Downloadable classroom resources
Designed and embedded classroom-ready lesson planning templates, AI tools guides, and reflection sheets - giving educators practical takeaways they could implement immediately in their own practice.
Visual design and branding
Developed the course visual identity using Canva AI and Adobe Firefly - including the course cover, section banners, and embedded imagery - creating a cohesive and professional aesthetic throughout.
This course was developed as a companion to the live online workshop of the same name. Together they form a blended professional learning sequence, participants could attend the live session for facilitated exploration, then return to this self-paced course to revisit content, complete activities independently, and access downloadable resources.
Designing a self-paced version of a live workshop taught me how much of the learning in a facilitated session depends on the facilitator the energy, the real-time responsiveness, the ability to read the room. Translating that into a Rise 360 course meant building those scaffolds into the content itself: clearer instructions, more explicit prompts, structured reflection moments. It made me a better facilitator and a better designer simultaneously.