Chris Kovach

UX & Service Design · Full-Stack Development · Learning Technology · Canvas LMS · Accessibility

I design and build learning technology — from needs analysis and prototyping through UX, development, and deployment — for faculty, students, and institutions in higher education.

Selected Work

3 projects

Pathways Assessment Tool

Adaptive assessment tool mapping student readiness to learning pathways.

UX
Research

Endeavors

End-to-end product design for a goal-tracking platform built around intrinsic motivation.

UX
Brand
Motion

Curated Chronologies

Editorial interface for building and sharing interactive historical timelines.

Editorial
Frontend

XR Annotation

Spatial annotation system for mixed-reality learning environments.

XR
Interaction
UX

Learning Outcome Assessment

Toolset for instructors to author, track, and report on learning outcomes at scale.

UX
Strategy

Accessibility Impact Report

Research and audit framework measuring real-world accessibility outcomes across products.

Research
A11y

Generative AI Course Generation

AI-powered toolchain letting instructors generate, refine, and publish structured course content.

AI
UX
Frontend

AI Socratic Tutor

Conversational AI tutor that guides students through problems via Socratic questioning.

AI
Interaction

DB Workout

Practice tool for database concepts — drills, schema challenges, and query exercises.

Frontend
Design

About

Currently serving as Solutions Architect at Virginia Tech’s Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS). 10+ years in higher ed working across teaching and learning innovation, program management, service design, and full-stack development.