Inclusive Teaching
Students at the Commonwealth Campuses have diverse social identities, backgrounds, language competencies, and geographical regions. Teaching inclusively can help your students feel valued and valued while giving them equitable opportunities to learn and demonstrate their knowledge.
Explore this collection of resources to help you integrate inclusive teaching techniques and ideas into your courses.
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Teaching Circle: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning Circle
Join this Teaching Circle to discuss and learn more about how to make your course materials more accessible for both online and in-person courses. We also discuss the Universal Design in Learning guid...
Teaching Circle: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning Circle
Join this Teaching Circle to discuss and learn more about how to make your course materials more accessible for both online and in-person courses. We also discuss the Universal Design in Learning guid...
Teaching Circle: Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Circle
Are you interested in reducing costs for your students by using low- or no-cost course materials? Or maybe you already adopted or created an OER (Open Educational Resource) textbook or other materials...
Teaching Circle: Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Circle
Are you interested in reducing costs for your students by using low- or no-cost course materials? Or maybe you already adopted or created an OER (Open Educational Resource) textbook or other materials...
Accessible Skills Challenge, Level 2
For 8 weeks, participants receive an email asking them to perform a single accessibility task in their course. These tasks focus on core elements of content that can then be applied across their entir...
Accessible Skills Challenge, Level 1
For 8 weeks, participants receive an email asking them to perform a single accessibility task in their course. These tasks focus on core elements of content that can then be applied across their entir...
Accessibility Checklist
As you work through making your course accessible, you will want to consider the various document and content types that you create. The following checklist has been provided to help you in your proce...
Access Granted: Making Math and Science Equations Accessible
This blog post includes an audio podcast discussing the tools, along with documentation and tutorials for each of the tools. To find the written documentation for the tools discusssed, scroll below t...
Digital Accessibility Foundations: Faculty “Need-to-Know” Now
Learn what the new DOJ rule and Penn State Policy AD69 mean for your teaching, what steps you can take now to prepare, and what resources can help you make accessibility less of a chore and more of a...
Access Granted: New Canvas Resource for Teaching Students to Create Accessible Work
Learn more about the Digital Accessibility Literacy (DAL) curriculum, a plug-and-play Canvas module that teaches students how to make their digital work accessible.
Creating Universally Designed PDF Documents (3/20/26)
Do you have PDF documents in your course that are articles from publishers? Have you ever scanned pages from a book to make sure students did not need to buy the entire book? Do you create content...
Creating Universally Designed PDF Documents (2/24/26)
Do you have PDF documents in your course that are articles from publishers? Have you ever scanned pages from a book to make sure students did not need to buy the entire book? Do you create content...
Creating Universally Designed PDF Documents (11/17/25)
Do you have PDF documents in your course that are articles from publishers? Have you ever scanned pages from a book to make sure students did not need to buy the entire book? Do you create content...
Creating Universally Designed PDF Documents (10/31/25)
Do you have PDF documents in your course that are articles from publishers? Have you ever scanned pages from a book to make sure students did not need to buy the entire book? Do you create content...
Creating Universally Designed PDF Documents (9/24/25)
Do you have PDF documents in your course that are articles from publishers? Have you ever scanned pages from a book to make sure students did not need to buy the entire book? Do you create content...
Designing in Canvas for All Learners, Part 2 (3/18/26)
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...
Supporting Learner Success in the Humanities Classroom (3/3/26)
Universal Design Guideline: Multiple Means of Representation, Multiple Means of Engagement Humanities and social science course content present a variety of challenges when it comes to universal desig...
Creating STEM Content that All Learners Can Understand (3/4/26)
Universal Design Guideline: Multiple Means of Representation, Multiple Means of Engagement STEM content can be especially difficult for learners to comprehend. This includes content such as math and...