Want to learn more about setting up Canvas Gradebook? See our latest webinar on how to prepare for end of the semester calculations.
24-minute video by Christine Roach & Gerry Pedraza
Continue ReadingAccessibility Tips for PowerPoint
This webinar will help you better understand how to make PowerPoint presentations accessible for all of your students, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
25-minute video by Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingContent Delivery in an Online Environment (Adding Content to Your Canvas Course)
This webinar covers the various ways you can add content to your course in Canvas. We will focus on adding documents and creating pages while ensuring your course materials are accessible to all students.
50-minute video by Lani Draper and Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingSetting up Quizzes & Exams in Canvas: An Overview
This workshop includes an overview of how to set up quizzes and exams in Canvas using the Quiz tool. Learn about multiple types of questions as well as different testing options to ensure your test is secure and those with accommodations have enough time to take it.
35-minute video by Christine Roach and Enrico Indiogine, Ph.D.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Continue ReadingContrast & Color Accessibility
Contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.
This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).
Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Links
It is important to create accessible links throughout your documents and courses for your students. In this post, we’ll provide guidelines to help you create accessible links.
We’ll show several “bad” and “good” link examples to help you create helpful links for use in your documents and course web pages.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Images
Images meant to convey meaning must have an alternate or “alt” text descriptions. Decorative images must be marked as such so they can be skipped by screen readers.
Doing both ensures you will create a document with accessible images throughout.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Headings in Microsoft Word
Headings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or web page) to jump from heading to heading to find information.
When you create accessible headings, every student can scan your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.
Continue ReadingHigh Quality Video Setup (Video Essentials)
Learn simple techniques in this video to create high quality video: workspace setup, lighting sources, web camera placement, and finally, quality audio.
4-minute video
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