My syllabus was mostly text based. I did have a beautiful course card. The image was a photograph of the building where I teach, taken during the twilight hours. However, the photograph did not contain any people. My homepage was the same as the Modules page. So, when the students logged in to the Canvas course, they will see all the modules, from the first module to the last module. I did have a self introduction section in the discussion board. It is somewhat similar to the "get to know you survey". In the self introduction, I ask the students to write about their major, their career goal, their hobbies, etc. On the eve of the first day of each semester, I usually sent an email to all the students, introducing myself, and welcoming them to my class. It is somewhat to the icebreaker. I did not have a wisdom wall.
Now that I've completed nearly all of the assignments of the academy, I have many pieces in place for humanizing STEM online. I have created a liquid syllabus. It is no longer text only, but includes images and videos, making it more dynamic and colorful. I have created a new course card, which contains real students of my college. I created a new homepage. I used images from the Canva application, which makes the homepage look more polished. I created a stand-alone "get to know you survey", instead of as part of the discussion board. I created an icebreaker video, introducing myself. Instead of being text based as before, it has many images, making it more interesting to watch.
Beginning next semester, I hope to integrate most of the projects of this academy into my real courses. Since I teach both computer science and mathematics, when I integrate my Humanizing STEM Academy projects into my real courses, I will customize whenever it is appropriate and possible.