Slack is where you communicate with your class outside live sessions. Your workspace includes classmates, teachers and other students studying at the same time around the world.

It’s where daily updates are shared, including what’s happening in class that day. Students ask questions, share inspiration, swap recommendations, help each other with technical issues and continue conversations from class.

Over time it becomes a genuinely active community rather than just a place for announcements.

Figma is where you submit work and review the progress of your classmates.

Each brief has its own structured space where you upload concepts, mood boards, sketches, early iterations and final outcomes. Because everyone’s work sits in the same place, you can see how other students are developing their ideas as well.

Teachers give feedback in a few different ways depending on what will help most. Sometimes they leave comments directly on the work, sometimes feedback happens in one-to-one conversations and sometimes the class reviews work together so everyone can learn from the process.

Most technical teaching happens through demonstrations. A teacher will show a technique or workflow, explain why it’s useful and then give you the chance to apply it yourself.

Sometimes you follow along step by step, and other times you try the process independently after watching the demonstration. The aim is always to move quickly from seeing something to doing it.

Many demos are also available afterwards so you can revisit them later if you want to review something again.

Lectures introduce key design ideas, principles and tools. They focus on a specific topic and are designed to lead into discussion and practical work.

For example, when introducing a program like Illustrator, the lecture might explore what it is used for, how designers combine it with other tools and how those tools appear in real design projects.

From there, the class moves into demonstrations, exercises and feedback.

Canvas is where the structure of the course lives. Lectures, demos, exercises and resources are organised there so you can clearly see what you are working on and what is coming next.

Some parts of the course are delivered asynchronously, meaning you can revisit them at your own pace. This makes it easier to review demonstrations or explanations later in the course when you want to refresh your understanding.

Notion is also used to share additional resources, references and useful information throughout the course.

Classes take place live on Zoom with teachers and classmates present.

Students ask questions, discuss ideas and review work together. Teachers can respond immediately, demonstrate techniques and guide critique as it happens.

The course is designed so the moments that benefit most from conversation, collaboration and feedback happen live.