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December 8, 2025 By Christine Roach

Creating Accessible LaTeX PDFs: PDF/UA-2 Compliance in Overleaf (December 2025)

Essential guide for academics to generate accessible PDF/UA-2 documents from LaTeX (Overleaf), covering crucial preamble, package, and element-tagging configurations for accessible math.

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November 11, 2025 By Lani Draper

Generating and Applying Long Descriptions of Complex Images

Use a Gemini Gem to draft Alt Text and Long Descriptions for complex engineering images. Includes step-by-step instructions for integration into your Word document.

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November 4, 2025 By Lani Draper

Making Handwritten Lecture Notes Accessible

Learn the 5-step process to transform your handwritten lecture notes into fully accessible Word and PDF documents using MathPix. Essential for math and STEM faculty.

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September 9, 2025 By Lani Draper

Updating your Canvas Home Page

Updating your Canvas home page is easy. Follow this tutorial to keep your course content current, organized, and accessible for students.

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September 9, 2025 By Lani Draper

How to Declutter Your Canvas Course

Declutter your Canvas course & improve your Ally accessibility score. Learn how to delete old, unused, and duplicate files.

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April 16, 2025 By Sandra Childers

Word Accessibility Cheat Sheet

Review this Word Accessibility Cheat Sheet when you need quick instructions on how to create accessible Word documents. Here are the basics.

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March 24, 2025 By Sandra Childers

Accessibility Fundamentals

This tutorial includes accessibility fundamentals to help make all your digital content accessible.

The goal is to create an equitable learning experience for all students, giving them an equitable opportunity to succeed in your course.

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August 6, 2024 By Gerry Pedraza

Slide Framing to Enhance your Online Teaching

Welcome to our tutorial on slide framing, an innovative approach to enhancing your online teaching. We’ll explore the impact of active learning and identify the benefits of adopting the slide-framing method. We’ll break down slide framing to help you seamlessly integrate it into your own process.

13.5-minute video by Gerry Pedraza

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February 15, 2024 By Sandra Childers

Mediasite Manual Recording in Zachry

This tutorial walks you through making an unscheduled or manual recording using Mediasite in the Zachry building.

1.5-minute video by Ted Seidel

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February 14, 2024 By Sandra Childers

Effective PowerPoint Design

Discover invaluable strategies for crafting effective PowerPoint designs and presentations tailored specifically to elevate your online course delivery.

3.5-minute video by Lani Draper

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