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Follow Up Friday: Canvas Accessibility Week Part II

Two weeks ago was Canvas Accessibility Week, featuring numerous sessions dedicated to enhancing accessibility in Canvas course design. This Follow-up Friday post will cover two sessions from Accessibility Week: Multimedia & Accessibility and Creating Accessible Teaching Materials. Multimedia and Accessibility The first session covered in this post, Multimedia and Accessibility, was hosted by Digital Learning […]

Guidelines for Designing and Building Accessible Assessments in Canvas

Accessible Assignment Design Transparent Assignment Design One framework people use regarding accessible design is the TILT Framework, which stands for Transparency in Learning and Teaching. Through this framework, you are considering how to be transparent about what you design for your assignment by clearly and fully explaining the purpose, task, and criteria for each assignment. […]

Follow Up Friday: Canvas Accessibility Week Part I

Last week was Canvas Accessibility Week, which featured several sessions highlighting methods to increase accessibility in Canvas courses. This Follow up Friday post will showcase the first two of those sessions: Building and Designing Accessible Assessments in Canvas and Designing for All: Online Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning. Building and Designing Accessible Assessments in […]

Canvas Accessibility Week is October 6-9!

Join Clemson Online for our Canvas Accessibility Week! These sessions will help you improve digital accessibility in your courses and incorporate accessible best practices into your pedagogy. Register for one or more of our accessibility-themed presentations and workshops below: Monday 10/6 Building and Designing Accessible Assessments in Canvas, 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Led by Leslie Fuller, […]

Follow Up Friday: Creating Accessible Materials

Monday’s blog covered how to create accessible, aesthetically pleasing course materials. Canva can be a great place to get ideas for design, design graphics for presentations, or create graphics for class. However, it is recommended that you turn your creations into accessible designs by recreating them in a more accessible software. Implementing QR Codes Into […]

Creating Course Materials with Accessible Designs

Design tools such as Canva and Adobe Express are very popular for designing visually appealing materials, from including well-designed graphics in presentations, to assigning students the task of creating their own. However, did you know that most “drag and drop” document, infographic, and worksheet design tools are actually inaccessible? This is true for both the […]