Building a Course: Styling
The Final Step
NYU SPS strives to be an inclusive environment for the many students we serve. One way to create an inclusive environment is to ensure the materials and course sites we share are accessible.
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An Environment for all
The final step is styling the page.
Heading Styles
To ensure that all students can access your course, use a lesson title that is assigned a “Heading 1” style. “Heading 2” is recommended for section headings, “Heading 3” for subsection headings and “Heading 4” for all subsequent headings within those subsections.
Inserting Images
Give all images “alt tags”. These are textual descriptions of images. This will also ensure that all students are able to access your course materials.
Applying CSS
CAES has created a CSS stylesheet that can be inserted into your lesson. If the previous steps are followed and text is pasted within text boxes without formatting [Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+v], then this stylesheet may improve the readability of your Lessons.
Keep in Mind: Striving for an inclusive learning environment is all of our responsibilities, using heading styles, image alt text and a CSS stylesheet helps many of our students.
To learn more about building a course, please attend a NEXUS webinar that can be found on the Training and Support page.