Engineering Studio for Advanced Instruction & Learning
These tutorials are for faculty members teaching distance education (online) in Texas A&M University's College of Engineering.
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 ReadingImages 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 ReadingHeadings 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 ReadingLearn simple techniques in this video to create high quality video: workspace setup, lighting sources, web camera placement, and finally, quality audio.
4-minute video
Continue ReadingLearn about some of the most impactful ways to make online courses accessible. Topics discussed: alternative (or “alt”) text, contrast, closed captioning, and transcripts. These essential components help ensure the accessibility of your courses and course materials.
4-minute video by Lani Draper and Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingLearn the importance of developing accessible online courses. Providing accessible course content and materials help all your students, not just those with disabilities.
3-minute video by Lani Draper and Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingSee how to use the Aggie Code of Honor to help prevent cheating on your exams. (Video currently based on Blackboard; Canvas-based video coming soon.)
5-minute video by Lani Draper
Continue ReadingBy law, we must caption the videos we provide students with 99% accuracy. YouTube and other auto-captioning services may only provide 60-70% accuracy. Being proactive and striving for 99% accuracy in your captions helps all your students access your every word.
This video provides a quick overview of how to edit the auto-captions created with Mediasite and YouTube.
4-minute video by Lani Draper
Continue ReadingThis tutorial will show you how to verify your YouTube account and help you upload videos to YouTube. Then, we will show you how to ensure YouTube accepts it, classifies it, and restricts its access.
Lastly, we will briefly discuss how YouTube adds auto-captioning to your uploaded videos.
3.5-minute video
Continue ReadingLearn how to save Zoom recordings locally (to your computer) instead of the Zoom Cloud.
5-minute video by Randy McDonald
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