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What to Expect and Support Resources

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Course: Digital Course Accessibility for Educators V2 (Nguyen OPEN)
Book: What to Expect and Support Resources
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Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 10:21 AM

Table of contents

1. Welcome



Course Description

Welcome to Digital Course Accessibility for Educators! This course empowers you to create Universally Designed courses, ensuring accessibility for a diverse range of students. Learn to use common tools for remediating content in online learning management systems and make your course materials accessible to all. Explore policies and support systems at Lane Community College while mastering content accessibility basics in Google documents. Gain expertise in checking and remedying accessibility issues, and design inclusive course content for and within the LMS. The course is project-based, applying your skills to real-world scenarios and fostering familiarity with adaptable principles across different software. Get ready to embark on a journey of improvement, fostering an inclusive learning environment through the enhancement of these essential skills!

 

Total Expected Length of Training

This course is expected to take around 10 hours of work.


Course Modality

This course is fully online with facilitation.


How to Print This Book

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Book page in Moodle, clicking More menu to select Print Book.

 

2. Be Ready!

Before Starting This Course

Learners taking this course should be able to meet the recommended pre requisites:

  • Proficiency in utilizing computer-based text editors like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or similar software is required.
  • At least a welcome section and 1 week of course content on Moodle, Lane’s learning management system (LMS), is necessary.
    • Want to join the class but don’t have a course with content? Contact the instructor, accommodations may be possible.

Before starting this course make sure you are prepared. You will need:

  • A computer to complete activities on
  • Internet access
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (not adobe reader)

Don’t have one of these? Contact the IT help desk (helpdesk@lanecc.edu). They can checkout laptops and provide Adobe Cloud licenses to staff and faculty.

 

3. Get to Know Your Facilitator

Welcome! Watch this short (40 sec.) video to get to know your facilitator for this course:



Contact Your Facilitator:

  • Skye Nguyen
  • Department: Academic Technology Center
  • Email: nguyens@lanecc.edu
  • Phone: 541-941-3699

Schedule a Check in Meeting for questions, feedback, or to chat!


 

4. Course Format

This course is primarily based on project work, discussion and peer review. Review the course format in the next subchapters to learn what to expect for the format of this course is greater detail.

Watch this short video on navigating the course [3 min.]:



Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain the key principles of accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as they relate to digital courses and materials.
  2. Identify who is responsible for ensuring course accessibility and where to go for support.
  3. Discuss institution policy around accessibility of online content.
  4. Assess course material using an accessibility checklist.
  5. Analyze accessibility of online content by using Ally (an accessibility checker), determining what changes need to be made, and apply the changes to distribute accessible content.
  6. Implement an accessibility plan for digital content in a course.
  7. Create accessible Google Documents, Google Slides and video/audio content for a wider audience range in a digital environment.
  8. Create accessible content in an LMS for a wider audience range.
  9. Design a course and its content for accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

4.1. Completing the Course

Scoring and Feedback

Scoring for all activities is done through a scale of Not Met, partially Met, and Met via a rubric. Partially met is not used on all criteria in rubrics for activities. To complete the course you must receive an average scale of Met on each required activity. Feedback will be provided for each activity!

Finding Feedback

Feedback can be found at the activity itself. To find feedback go back to the activity on the course page, click into the activity, and scroll to the bottom of the page to find the filled out rubric and any feedback to go with it.

Criteria for Completing the Course

The course will be completed after the following criteria have been completed

  • All required activities are marked as completed:
    • Required activities:
      • Unit 1 - Expand: Accessibility and UDL Discussion
      • Unit 1 - Accessibility Responsibility, Support, and LCC Policy Quiz
      • Unit 2 - Create: Document Accessibility Bones Peer Review
      • Unit 3 - Reflect: Using the Checklist Discussion
      • Unit 4 - Utilize: Accessibility Checkers
      • Unit 5 - Apply: Accessible LMS Content
      • Unit 6 - Create: Get a Plan Peer Review
      • Unit 7 - Choose Your Own Adventure Unit (Only 1 Unit is required from 7.1, 7.2, or 7.3)
      • Unit 8 -  Apply: Accessibility Plan for Course Accessibility

Due Dates

This course has suggested due dates based on completion in 5 weeks at about 2 hours of work each week. If you think you might not make these due dates please reach out to coordinate completion of the course.

Tracking Your Progress

To track your progress of course completion you can complete each required activity. This can be done by viewing the Accessibility Quest progress block in the block on the right side of the course page. This progress block only shows required activities, not resources. 

Accessibility quest block showing a required activity as not yet completed.

4.2. Course Activity Format

Course Activity Types

Discussion Forums

In this course we have two required discussion forums, including the introduction forum. These are to engage in conversations about the different topics. Review each discussion forum’s directions to be sure to complete all work, and how to submit this activity type.

Peer Review

There are two peer review assignments. These will give you more experience with review of accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and practice using different tools. These are using discussion forums in small groups to which you will need to review one peer’s work for each peer review assignment. See complete directions directly in the peer review assignment for the work you will complete and how to submit.

Quiz

There is one automatically graded quiz in this course. It is automatically graded so you will see your score immediately and you will not have a time limit. Please review specific directions in the quiz itself.

Assignment

Assignments are primary projects you will be working on and submitting on your own. These assignments will be across a range of topics to meet our course outcomes and learning goals.  The capstone is an assignment as well. See the information for instructions, how to submit, and due dates in each assignment.

Activity Due Dates

Each Unit’s activity is due at the end of each week. These are soft due dates but you are highly encouraged to work through content in about 8 weeks.

Activity Feedback

Facilitator feedback will be provided within 1 week of the activity deadline for your cohort. For peer review activities expect to receive feedback by the due date of the peer feedback deadline.

4.3. Unit Organization and Calendar

Unit Start Here

Unit 1 - Accessibility and UDL For Digital Content and What You Can Do About It [1 hr]

Unit 2 - The Bones of Accessibility [1 hr]

Unit 3 - Make it Consistent Using Accessibility Checklists [30 min]

Unit 4 - Your Friend, the Accessibility Checker [30 min]

Unit 5 - Learning Platform Accessibility and UDL Design [1 hr]

Unit 6 - Plan A vs. Plan B, Let’s Make an Accessibility Plan [30 min]

Unit 7 - Choose Your Own Adventure (Only 1)!

  • Unit 7.1 - Slide Shows (Easy) [30 min]
    • Unit 7.1 Overview and Learning Content
    • Assignment - 7.1 Apply: Accessibility Strategies for Google Slides
  • Unit 7.2 - Video and Audio (Normal) [30 min]
    • Unit 7.2 Overview and Learning Content
    • Assignment - 7.2 Create: Accessible Video and Audio Captioning
  • Unit 7.3 - PDFs (Hard) [1.5 hr]
    • Unit 7.3 Overview and Learning Content
    • Assignment - 7.3 Evaluate: Making a PDF Accessible

Unit 8 - Capstone [3 hr]

 

5. Resources

Content Support

Need more in depth help with the course content? 

  • For help with activities, assignments, and other content, join the weekly zoom office hour or set up an appointment with the instructor for support!
  • For help with submitting activities or troubleshooting errors contact the ATC (atc@lanecc.edu).

Content Accessibility

This course is fully accessible as it is our goal to make all content accessible and available to everyone. Here are some resources and tools for you to get the most out of this course:

Find a problem? Let the facilitator know!

Areas of Support at a Glance

  • ATC (Academic Technology Center) - Moodle and Technical Support for Instructors
  • ID Services (Instructional Design Services) - Course Design and Development Support
  • IT Helpdesk - Computer hardware/software problems, Assistive Technology Setup/Maintenance/Removal, and more.
  • CAR (Center for Accessible Resources) - Accessibility for Students

 

6. Sources Cited

Readings, images, websites, and resources in this course may be cited within the syllabus and/or modules, based on the copyright policy of each item. Images that are not cited have been obtained from the public domain or are icons that were created by the original course developer (Skye Nguyen, LCC). Please contact the facilitator if you have any questions about the copyright and ownership of materials presented in this course.