Instructional Media Assistant; Center Teaching & Learning Design

We are looking for a creative and detail-oriented Instructional Media Assistant to partner with our Instructional Design team. Your primary goal is to elevate the visual quality of our online courses by creating professional graphics, polished presentations, and engaging video content. You will play a key role in ensuring our courses are visually compelling and consistent with our institutional brand.

The Instructional Media Assistant will provide support to faculty in the areas of curriculum delivery and course support which includes syllabi construction, coordination of course materials, textbook orders, course evaluations, and technological troubleshooting. The

Instructional Media Assistant will participate in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of routine online courses, web-based training, and face-to-face training curricula.

• Provide instructional design support and coordinate a range of online instructional tools and materials to enhance online course delivery.
• Provide recommendations to faculty and subject matter experts to update existing courses. Perform routine revisions of existing course content.
• Create and maintain faculty, student, and course information records in various locations/systems i.e. secured network drives, Teams, SharePoint, Learning Management System (LMS).
• Update course websites in the LMS by creating assignments, checking APA citations, building exams, building groups, adding rubrics, setting up the Grade Center, and performing other maintenance as necessary.
• Complete general QA of courses throughout the term to ensure that materials and course content align, and that all information is up to date.
• Correspond and coordinate with faculty on term start preparations, to set up course for the upcoming term and occasionally determine how to effectively use the LMS tools and other communication software.
• Assist Design & Technology teams with compliance with established accessibility (ADA/508/UDL) standards as well as university/division standards.
• Assist in preparing course materials throughout term prior to posting in classroom i.e. Ensure appropriate template usage and formatting for syllabi, rubrics, documents & PDFs, and all PowerPoint presentations.
• Maintain a collaborative relationship with faculty, Instructional Designer and Technology team members, and Program Administrators to ensure quality and consistency throughout our courses and programs.

• Provide guidance and training to faculty, TAs, clinical instructors, and guest lecturers as needed on all technologies used in online courses.
• Troubleshoot technical issues that are escalated from the Level 1/Level 2 Help Desks Assist with effective implementation of instructional technology tools within learning management systems.
• Consult with faculty on the use of instructional technologies for activities such as evaluation, presentation, audience response, live meetings, streaming video, etc.
• Assist multimedia specialists with the preparation and production of recorded audio/video lectures.
• Support/troubleshoot various educational and communication technology i.e. Turnitin, Zoom, Office 365 products, Voice Thread, Qualtrics, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Adobe Connect, Poll Everywhere, RPNow, Respondus, Examsoft, Adobe PDF, Shadow Health, Late Nite Labs, etc.
• Participate in technology implementation projects, providing project coordination when needed.
• Triage and respond to faculty and student questions, concerns, and inquiries. Troubleshoot when able and elevate calls, emails, & JIRA tickets to appropriate staff for matters requiring specialized or a higher level of expertise/authority.
• Collaborate with faculty and IDs to select the most appropriate technologies based on the content of the course.
• Perform thorough in-depth quality assurance testing as needed.

• Provide administrative assistance in the areas of course material production, Internet research, textbook selections and orders, course assignments, LMS sites and evaluations.
• Assist instructional design & technology staff by researching industry trends and best practices…