LMS Course Builder — Canvas & Brightspace Expert

Nectar; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Nectar is seeking a Course Builder to transform approved course guides into live, accessible LMS courses in Canvas or Brightspace. You will build modules, pages, quizzes, and navigation, batching work and coordinating with the instructional designer.

You will package interactive content (SCORM/xAPI, H5P), apply branding, test across devices, and participate in client calls during US business hours. A keen eye for detail is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building courses in Canvas or Brightspace, including quizzes, assignments and graded items.
• Experience with SCORM or xAPI packages and how they behave once uploaded into an LMS.
• Real attention to detail. This role is noticed when it is done badly and invisible when it is done well.
• Working knowledge of accessibility requirements (WCAG 2.1 AA) and how to meet them in an LMS rather than in theory.
• The discipline to follow a template and a build guide exactly, and to ask when something is unclear.
• Availability for occasional scheduled calls, including client-facing ones, during US business hours.
• Candour about what you have not built. If you have never built an H5P activity or never packaged a Storyline file into Brightspace, tell us in the application. We will still want to talk to you. Finding out mid-project is the problem.

Responsibilities

• Build the course in the LMS from the approved course guide: modules, pages, assignments, quizzes, discussions, files and navigation, following the client's template and structure. Work in batches. Most courses are built in two or more passes rather than all at once, so you will be building one batch while the designer is still finishing the next.
• Package and embed interactive content, including SCORM and xAPI packages from Articulate Rise or Storyline, and H5P activities built directly in the LMS. Apply client branding and keep it consistent: banners, icons, page structure, naming conventions and formatting.
• Check accessibility: alt text on images and graphics, colour contrast, heading structure, reading order, keyboard navigation and accessible media controls. Remediating accessibility defects in your own build is part of the work, not a change order.
• Test the build. Confirm links work, quizzes score correctly, embedded content renders across devices and browsers, and nothing is left unpublished that should be live, or published that should not.
• Meetings and collaboration. Attend client calls and project meetings as necessary, or as stated in your contract. On several of our projects the client reviews the built course live, and the builder is the person who can answer what was done and why.
• Process. Work the fixes list with the designer and the lead. Fixes get logged in one place, not by email or chat, and you confirm each one before sign off. Keep your build status current in the project system so the PM and the designer can see where a course actually is. Flag what you cannot resolve. If the course guide is ambiguous or an activity cannot be built as specified, raise it rather than guessing or quietly leaving it out.

Skills

Canvas

Brightspace

SCORM

xAPI

H5P

Accessibility WCAG 2.1 AA

Templates & build guides

Client communication

Tools

Articulate Rise

Storyline

Cidi Labs DesignPLUS

LMS administration

HTML/CSS basics

Job description

Nectar is seeking a Course Builder to transform approved course guides into live, accessible LMS courses in Canvas or Brightspace. You will build modules, pages, quizzes, and navigation, batching work and coordinating with the instructional designer.

You will package interactive content (SCORM/xAPI, H5P), apply branding, test across devices, and participate in client calls during US business hours. A keen eye for detail is essential.