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case_images: Landing page for students on the learning management systems.. (
  a) Previous layout with week-by-week arrangement, typical of many courses; (
  b) Menu buttons and themes positioned on the front page.
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case_images: The course had always had a 'Quick links' section at the top of the page (as seen in Figure 2b).
case_images: Example of front page of the learning management system, demonstrating how the content is organised into themes with arresting images.. Pictures from Creative Commons.
  Image of scientists: Mars-discovery-district; Image of globe:
  Kotomi.
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case_images: Each section in the new configuration has its own image and description to guide the students quickly to course material that they need ( Figure 3).
case_images: Science communication for the 21st Century..  Question of the week - a Moodle polling activity. Students view a short video or image and are asked to participate in a poll. Video:
  Science communication for the 21st Century.
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case_images: Again, the information was organised in a consistent format, designed to fit on a single screen of a computer, (see Figure 4) incorporating a short introduction, a list of learning outcomes, and a list of things to do post-lecture, called ' Something to read' (content and further reading), 'Something to do' (a related activity) , 'Something to think about' (opportunity to reflect, extend and apply the learning.).
case_images: Schematic of layout of the page and logic connecting the various activities available through the learning management system.
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case_images: The learning pathway was designed to guide the learner through clearly sign-posted themes and topics in order to help the students understand the progressive and cumulative building of knowledge; and to help them synthesise and apply the key concepts ( Figure 5).
case_images: Example of a web page that accompanies one of the lectures.. The same structure every week to create expectations of learning activity. The students are directed to
  the video BBC: Science and Islam - Part 1 in "Something to Do".
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case_images: A typical layout and introduction for each 'lecture' activity is shown in Figure 6.
case_images: Percentage of students who Agreed, Somewhat agreed, Somewhat Disagreed or Disagreed with ten statements about various aspects of the revised structure of the learning management system (N=68).. The full text of the questions is in
  Supplementary Data. The complete dataset is available as a.csv file.
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case_images: Students were particularly positive to the questions about the navigation of the site, with 80.5% agreeing that the navigation was logical (Question 2), and the information easily accessible ( Figure 7).