IgnitED Labs: Technology Training for Onboarding Employees
Technical Documentation
June 2020
In an effort to standardize the knowledge of newly hired employees of the IgnitED Labs, this training packet was created. It includes a hands-on approach, which was modified during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all training could be done remotely. Below are select images from the training guide.
Considerations and processes
Software/Tool(s): Google Docs
Since the IgnitED Labs are directly associated with Arizona State University (within Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College), explicit choices were made to follow the university’s branding in a clean and aesthetically-pleasing way.
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Inline with ASU’s brand guide, all information within the training packet follows rules related to font, highlighting, and overall color scheme.
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The training practice for onboarding employees prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was quite hands-on and involved the creation of several projects. In the virtual format, the focus of resource collection was to offer new employees an enriching and informative set of sites and videos.
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As with any other occupation, work with educational technology has various degrees of difficulty and immediate applicability. In this case, the modules were organized in a way that allows new employees to understand the foundation of terms and technology that they will be asked about the most in their everyday work. Organization of this information was therefore highly intentional.
The goal of this project was to create a standardized training curriculum that was effective in its instruction of major content as well as appearing clean, organized, and easy-to-follow.
Using Google Docs, I created this file in a format that could be printed and filled out by hand. The document could also be downloaded as a PDF to be filled out in Adobe Acrobat.
The content of the training curriculum grouped the technologies it aimed to train new employees on, and in a way that prioritized the most popular technologies first. Training Module 1 was added after the COVID-19 pandemic moved all work to a virtual format.
