Creating accessible learning materials for your course helps remove barriers and ensures that all students have the best possible chance for success. While tools such as accessibility checkers can aid in this process, it can still be challenging at times to review and edit content to meet accessibility standards. Microsoft Copilot is a Generative Artificial […]
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Creating accessible content helps ensure all students can fully engage with your course materials. Using tables in Canvas can be a helpful way to organize information, such as schedules, grading rubrics, or comparisons of information, but they need to be designed thoughtfully to support a more inclusive learning experience for everyone in your course. Small […]
This training is no longer available. Please contact Vice Provost Schafer <[email protected]> for additional resources on this topic. To access the Digital Accessibility Made Simple training course, please follow the directions below. Directions Have questions? Need additional support on this or other teaching and learning topics? Please visit us for drop-in support (10am-3pm, M-F) or […]
By Michael Rupert, Alexandra Grima, Will Austin, Sarah Creasy, Nate Easley III, Jenni Bruhn, Tanner Wilde, Nick Hoffman, Todd Wolfe, and Alex McDaniel As part of the Spring 2024 CTLD Course Development Cycle, María Akrabova, Wendy Gallagher, María Rey-López, and José García-Paine collaborated with the CTLD instructional design team to create two innovative Spanish language […]
In the CTLD Course Development Cycle, MSU Denver instructors work with the instructional design team to improve their existing or new courses. Instructors identify course objectives, develop learning activities, create a user-friendly course, record high-quality multimedia content, and much more. As part of the Spring 2024 development cycle, Environmental Science instructor Sarah Schliemann worked with […]
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How do I Enable Captions in YuJa?
All multimedia resources available in your Canvas course should have closed captions to comply with federal law and accessibility guidelines. It is important to create videos that are accessible for all users regardless of ability. Luckily, there is an auto-caption feature built into YuJa that you can enable to have closed captions generated automatically for […]
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How do I write effective captions?
All multimedia resources available in your Canvas course should have closed captions to comply with federal law and accessibility guidelines. Good captions are more than just a direct transcription, they also indicate to the viewer who is speaking, what background noise is present, and other audio cues. For a detailed explanation on what to include, […]
Imagine you’re cultivating a garden. You’ve planted vegetables, herbs, and flowers of all kinds. Most of them seem to be doing very well, but some are struggling to grow and thrive. Rather than scold the plant for failing to grow, you would instead want to understand why it was struggling. Too little sun? Too much […]
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Audio Annotations
It can be easy to assume that all learners learn the same way; that they have the same abilities and the same access to resources. Here at MSU Denver, our priority is making sure that the information in our courses is accessible to all learners. Consider, however, that you are a non-sighted learner; how would […]
Once you have set up your quiz in Canvas, including the allowed time for all students, you can easily change that time requirement for select students without editing the rest of the class. Canvas allows instructors to provide accommodations such as extra time and extra quiz attempts to their students using the Quiz Moderation feature. […]