Caninnovate

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Best Practices for Blended Learning

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Staci Block, Ed.D.

staci.block@sdcoe.net

Carrie Lane

carrie.lane@sdcoe.net

Overview of the training:

Learn the basics of accessibility with emphasis placed on making content accessible while promoting proactive (as opposed to reactive) steps that people can take to create and advocate for accessible content.
Learn the language of accessibility, the laws that most impact digital learning, how to create accessible content, the principles of Universal Design for Learning, accessible technology, and the experience of people with disabilities.
Explore tips on designing your course for accessibility.

Ensuring Digital Accessibility

**Welcome!**
	Do you want to learn more about digital accessibility? During this course, you will identify why accessibility is important and explore standards, guidelines, and best practices for ensuring digital content accessibility and designing courses to promote accessibility.

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Accessibility in Canvas

Learn the basics of accessibility with emphasis placed on making content accessible while promoting proactive (as opposed to reactive) steps that people can take to create and advocate for accessible content.

Description

Canvas provides authors a foundation and a wealth of built-in tools to create inclusive experiences for all students. Learn how to leverage all of Canvas’ tools to build an accessible and usable learning environment.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Determine the best format/strategy for delivering content, whether it should remain as a PDF, in a Word Doc, or a Canvas page
Explain how formatting impacts assistive technologies’ ability to access and interpret information.
Utilize the Rich Content Editor to properly format content pages
Run the Canvas’ Accessibility Checker and interpret its results to determine if a Canvas page is accessible

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Accessibility 101: Principles of Inclusive Design

Learn the language of accessibility, the laws that most impact digital learning, how to create accessible content,

the principles of Universal Design for Learning, accessible technology, and the experience of people with disabilities.

Course Overview

The purpose of this course is to introduce participants to the basics of accessibility with emphasis placed on making content accessible while promoting proactive (as opposed to reactive) steps that people can take to create and advocate for accessible content. Participants will learn the language of accessibility, the laws that most impact higher ed, how to create accessible content, the principles of Universal Design for Learning, and other useful information pertaining to accessible technology and the experience of people with disabilities.

Course Objectives

Explain the importance and benefits of accessible/inclusive design.
Summarize the laws that protect people with disabilities
Differentiate between access and accommodation.
Employ Universal Design principles.
Create simple, accessible documents, Canvas pages, PDFs, and/or PowerPoint presentations that include the following:

Use of headings and style guide
Alt-text for images
Descriptive hyperlinks
Accessible tables

Identify and use the various approaches to caption a video.
Take steps to ensure online technology is accessible to students, faculty, and staff on your campus.

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Training Recording

Digital Accessibility in Canvas Captioned Recording