Author: Juli Haugen
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Elevating Course Accessibility with Ally in Canvas
What is Ally? Ally is a tool that assists with improving accessibility in courses especially for course materials. Ally is turned on in all Spring courses and allows your students to download alternative formats of any course documents (e.g. searchable .pdf, mp3, electronic braille, HTML, ePub, etc.). Additionally, Ally provides feedback for each file in…
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February 6: Faculty dialogue on the iPad and MacBook Pro program (DExC)
Faculty dialogue on the iPad and MacBook Pro program (DExC) Monday, February 6th, 4 – 5:30 p.m. in the Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. The CoTCP, in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Research, Analytics & Consulting, conducted both a survey and focus groups to gather feedback from faculty on their experiences with the iPad and…
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Summer Digital Accessibility Workshops
What is digital accessibility and what does it mean to make your courses more accessible? Over the summer, workshops will be offered highlighting the areas where you can make the most impact on accessibility applied directly to your course in Canvas. Visit the IT Campus Groups events page for upcoming workshops on digital accessibility and…
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Lunch and In-Person Workshop: Putting Accessibility and UDL into Practice – April 29
Please join us for lunch and a hands-on workshop with Kirsten Behling who will do a quick review of Universal Design for Learning as a tool to support students with disabilities in courses and showcase examples of how to incorporate UDL into assessments and assignments. Get a jumpstart on next semester and bring your own syllabus, assignment,…
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Video: Use the +1 Strategy to Increase Accessibility in Your Courses
Completely redoing all assessments or activities in a course to be more accessible can be overwhelming, so why not start with just one thing? In February, Kirsten Behling introduced us to the concept of Universal Design for Learning as a tool to support students with disabilities in courses and encouraged the adoption of just one…