Craftify: A Course Creation Application to Help Instructors with Designing New Online Courses
Abstract
Craftify is a course creation platform designed to simplify and accelerate the web-based course design process, addressing the complex and time-intensive challenges often faced by instructors. Through an intuitive graphic frontend, Craftify integrates key instructional design principles, multimedia assets, and adaptive learning techniques to empower users with ready-to-use, customizable course structures. Its features include automated course structuring, quiz creation, multimedia incorporation, and seamless syncing with popular LMS platforms such as Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas. A pilot study with 50 lecturers—administered through questionnaires—demonstrated Craftify's effectiveness, showing reductions in course development time, higher self-reported satisfaction levels among instructors, and improved student engagement within online environments. By streamlining these essential elements, Craftify effectively supports instructors in creating dynamic, interactive, and high-quality online courses.
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