A key component of learner success is course content that learners can easily consume.  By considering the design of course content in Canvas, faculty can significantly affect how successful learners are in a course.  This workshop is a second installment in designing course content in Canvas.  It will provide participants with best practices related to developing the Canvas syllabus, assignments and page design, and supporting learners with Canvas tools. These strategies will help you reduce barriers for learners. 

Using instructional video can increase learner engagement with course material.  Video can provide alternatives for representing ideas to students, add relevance and value, and provide options to learners.  This workshop will help participants to develop new instructional video that is universally designed and consider the many ways in which learners will consume video content in their classroom. Participants will have time to apply their new skills during the workshop. 

Instructional videos can be a powerful way to convey content to students. Additionally, live events that occur on campus can be incredible for engaging the campus community.  We have a commitment to our students and the campus community to ensure that these videos and events are universally designed, so that all audiences can consume them.  This includes live and closed captioning, and occasionally audio description.  Did you know that the University has enterprise tools that can make these processes easier?  This workshop will outline the Zoom and Kaltura features that can support these processes.  It will also provide an overview of securing a third-party captioner when an accommodation request is made.  

Instructional videos can be a powerful way to convey content to students. Additionally, live events that occur on campus can be incredible for engaging the campus community.  We have a commitment to our students and the campus community to ensure that these videos and events are universally designed, so that all audiences can consume them.  This includes live and closed captioning, and occasionally audio description.  Did you know that the University has enterprise tools that can make these processes easier?  This workshop will outline the Zoom and Kaltura features that can support these processes.  It will also provide an overview of securing a third-party captioner when an accommodation request is made.  

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What if a learner can not see that picture?  How do they understand the idea?  What if the visual is a complex graphic or map?  How do learners know what they should be thinking about when they interpret the visual?  This workshop will help participants to view visuals as one component in the bigger puzzle of providing content to learners.  Strategies for helping blind and sighted learners navigate the visuals in your course will be presented, along with opportunities to apply those skills to your own course content during the workshop session.