Lamakū Course Templates
Lamakū Course Templates
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This page highlights course design resources including ready-to-use course starter templates and ID-designed courses and assets created to support high-quality, student-centered learning experiences.
Course Starter Templates (CSTs)
Course Starter Templates (CSTs)
The Leeward Course Starter Template (CST) is a campus-specific 16-week course site pre-populated with consistent navigation and visual design, placeholder content aligned with online standards, and customized components including an AI Course Expectations page. The CST also includes a Week 1 Lesson (Grounding Our Learning: ʻĀina, Moʻolelo, and Building Pilina) available for instructors to use as-is to support students in building pilina to the campus and to one another, as well as the corresponding Discussion (Hoʻolauna and Pilina). The purpose of this CST is to support instructors in developing high-quality course content and to provide students with intuitive Lamakū navigation.
Course Template (Lite) - LEE
Course Template (Lite) - LEE
The Lamakū Course Template (Lite) is a streamlined version of the existing Course Starter Template course sites, designed with Leeward Community College branding, consistent navigation, and contains the following modules: Welcome (Welina Mai), Getting Started, Syllabus, one sample Week # module from which copies can be made, and Campus Support & Resources. You can self-enroll to this course site via the Lamakū Discover Tab.
There are several UH System Lamakū CSTs, such as 5-week, 16-week, and Face-to-Face Web-Enhanced formats. These are sample course sites pre-populated with consistent navigation, visual design, and placeholder content. These CSTs are generic templates branded with UH System gold. Access the Lamakū Course Starter Template: Companion Guide to get started.
ID-Designed Template Courses
ID-Designed Template Courses
The ID-Designed Courses Project piloted a collaborative model in which Instructional Designers, faculty Subject Matter Experts, and a Cultural Curriculum Specialist redesigned HDFS 230 and PSY 100 as high-quality, ready-to-use online template courses. The project strengthened course organization, accessibility, engagement, AI guidance, and culturally grounded learning while creating reusable resources and identifying practices to support future course development.
View the full project report to explore the process, outcomes, lessons learned, and next steps. Contact us if you teach one of these courses or are interested in partnering with the IDT to develop new ID-Designed Courses.
HDFS 230
HDFS 230
Instructional Designer: Lauren Lum Ho
Instructor/SME: Ashley Biddle
Cultural Curriculum Specialist: Moana Makaimoku
PSY 100
PSY 100
Instructional Designer: Brent Hirata
Instructor/SME: Anika Gearhart-Edwards
Cultural Curriculum Specialist: Moana Makaimoku
Other ID-Designed Courses and Assets
Other ID-Designed Courses and Assets
Course: Ke Ala ʻIke Scholars (Available)
Course: Ke Ala ʻIke Scholars (Available)
Ke Ala ʻIke Scholars Program seeks to inspire all Leeward CC students to hāpai (carry, fulfill) their kuleana (responsibilities) in academics and Hawaiian culture while focused on excellence and achievement on the way toward earning any Associate degree or certificate. This ID-Designed course was made in collaboration with Kumu Momi Kamahele and Lauren Lum Ho (ID).
Lesson and Discussion: Grounding Our Learning: ʻĀina, Moʻolelo, and Building Pilina
Lesson and Discussion: Grounding Our Learning: ʻĀina, Moʻolelo, and Building Pilina
Grounding Our Learning: ʻĀina, Moʻolelo, and Building Pilina is a lesson and accompanying discussion designed to help students begin a course by locating their learning in place and building connection to Leeward CC, the ʻāina of Waiawa and Puʻuloa, and one another. Through aloha ʻāina, moʻolelo, the Leeward CC oli, and pilina, students explore the relationships, histories, and responsibilities connected to where they are learning before transitioning into a Hoʻolauna and Pilina discussion with their learning community. This lesson was created by Lauren Lum Ho with mentorship from Piʻikea Hardy-Kahaleoumi, in the Spring of 2026, as part of the Pae ʻāina Program, facilitated by Moana Makaimoku. These course materials are available in the Leeward Course Starter Template.
AI Course Expectations is a customizable course resource designed to help instructors clearly communicate how generative AI may or may not be used in their courses and assignments. The resource provides adaptable guidance for overall course expectations, assignment-specific AI use, student and instructor disclosure, recording and transcription tools, and AI misuse, giving instructors a practical starting point for developing transparent and consistent expectations.
This page is available in the Leeward Course Starter Template.
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