In 2024, the Department of Justice updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act requiring all digital assets to be fully accessible to everyone. To help move closer to compliance, I created a document with common issues that impede accessibility. The accessibility cheat sheet is embedded below. It is available for use with attribution.
This winter I am working toward adding a new credential to my learning: Quality Matter's Teaching Online Certificate . This well-established and highly respected organization has put together a series of workshops that focuses on best practices of online teaching. I plan to reflect on each workshop as I complete them as a way to model metacognition. This post is 6 of 8. In the Evaluating Your Institutional Policies workshop we had the opportunity to explore both public-facing and internal policies our institutions have in place. As someone new to Triton College, this was extremely helpful for me. Many of these policies don’t directly relate to my position as Director of Distance Learning so having a dedicated block of time to explore these will allow me to reflect on suggestions I’d like to make for our online learning programs. Having an opportunity to explore classroom behavior, academic integrity, learner privacy, copyright, and accessibility policies as well as others helped s...
Orienting students to online learning helps set the stage for success. By designing a "Start Here" or "Course Overview" module, your students see that you are invested in their learning. This 3-page document has ideas for items that can be included. https://bit.ly/OnlineOrientationIdeas
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