Today, I updated the TA Orientation graphics to not include the instructor’s name and to change “E316” to the more formal “Englsih 316.” I also added an additional PowerPoint slide with all of the team members who worked with the instructor. I made two different styles just in case!
Today, I did more of the intermediate Cascade training. I had fun making the AI icons!
I know what you’re thinking: “E316 isn’t a course, Megan! There’s E316M, L, and N!” I hear you. You’re right. There is no E316. But! I’m still making graphics for it. Why? All the TAs for M, L, and N do orientation together.
That out of the way, these weren’t too bad and the client didn’t want the full menu of Canvas assets (why would they? It’s only a two-day orientation.) I picked a generic photo of the UT tower for the backgrounds with a nice, dark shade of blue from the brand color palette. The only issues I ran into were color-correcting the PPT title slide because my nice, dark shade of blue wasn’t being very… nice to the photo I picked.
Yesterday (or should I say Friday), I did the green screen training. It was super simple. I learned a new way to cut out an object, so that’s definitely something!
Today, I got an assignment to create some Canvas graphics and a PowerPoint template for the basic English Lit TAs’ orientation. For now, I’m going with the dark blue from the UT secondary palette. Ideally, I would associate English lit with brown, but that’s not a brand color. Blue it is. So far, I’ve done the Canvas callout buttons:
It’s pretty smooth sailing so far. On Monday, I’ll do the rest of the Photoshop work for the Canvas dashboard and home page banner.
UPDATE: I have to redo them on Monday with new text! No problem, though.
Today, I did most of the Cascade editor basic training. I had a lot of fun with the fake news and event stories. It took my entire shift (4 hours today), but I had a good time making the fake site.
