eSAIL offers several live workshops to support your online teaching. Live workshops provide an opportunity for hands-on practice with guidance from our eSAIL staff.
Don’t have time for a workshop?
We also provide a variety of self-paced digital accessibility resources on our website. These resources include guides, tutorials, and checklists to help you create accessible course content. Whether you’re looking for tips on creating accessible documents, structuring your course for screen readers, or understanding universal design principles, our Digital Accessibility Resources page has the information you need.
📅 Upcoming Workshops
Workshop Title |
Date |
Time |
|---|---|---|
| High-Impact Accessibility for Engineering Courses | Friday, September 25 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Drop In) |
| Beyond Play: Designing Interactive Videos | TBA | TBA |
| Digital Accessibility Toolkit | Wednesday, Oct 9 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
| Preparing for the End of the Semester | TBA | TBA |
September 2026 – High-Impact Accessibility for Engineering Courses
Workshop Leaders and Facilitators: eSAIL Staff
Date & Time: Friday, September 25, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Format: Modular Virtual Drop-In Clinic
Location: Online (Zoom)
Description: Ensuring digital accessibility in engineering courses can often feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be a time-consuming process. The eSAIL Hands-on Accessibility Clinic is designed to help faculty identify and execute the highest-impact updates that offer the best return on their time. From decluttering course modules and fixing slide reading orders to handling complex LaTeX equations, this clinic provides the targeted, practical support you need to make your Fall materials inclusive, compliant, and ready for your students.
Bring your current Fall course materials! We won’t just be talking about accessibility—we will be actively updating your actual courses together in real-time through screen sharing and guided support. Visit the clinic page to register for the specific modules you wish to attend.
September 2026 – Beyond Play: Designing Interactive Videos
- TBA
Workshop Leaders and Facilitators: eSAIL Staff
Length: 1 hour
Maximum attendees: 20
Location: Online
Description: Transform passive viewing into an active learning experience. In this workshop, we will explore YuJa’s interactivity suite to build embedded quizzes, hotspots, and branching pathways within your videos. You’ll learn how to track student engagement through these interactions and sync quiz results directly with your Canvas gradebook.
October 2026 – Digital Accessibility Toolkit
Workshop Leaders and Facilitators: Christine Roach
Length: 1 hour
Maximum attendees: 20
Location: Online
Description: This workshop provides a practical introduction to addressing common digital accessibility issues in instructional materials. It is designed for faculty and staff who create, revise, or manage digital content and need clear, actionable guidance on meeting accessibility requirements.
The workshop will cover multiple categories of tools and techniques used to remediate frequent accessibility concerns, including document remediation, presentation materials, learning management system content, and course organization practices. Attention will also be given to understanding automated accessibility feedback and using it effectively to improve compliance over time.
By the end of the session, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to approach accessibility remediation, greater confidence in interpreting accessibility checker results, and practical strategies for maintaining accessible digital content as materials evolve.
October 2026 – Preparing for the End of the Semester
- TBA
Length: 45 minutes
Maximum attendees: 20
Location: Online
Description: This session is for faculty using Canvas who want to learn more about setting up Gradebook and preparing for end-of-semester calculations. Topics addressed include setting up grading schemes, weighted grades, grade posting policy, assignment groups, creating extra columns, and posting grades to Howdy.
❓ Want a one-on-one session or have any questions?
- Email us at eSAIL@tamu.edu!
- Also, check out our faculty learning section and recorded workshops for immediate viewing.
