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CAST is the organization behind Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is a core tenant of accessible course design. Their UDL homepage provides helpful, high-level context about UDL to your Gemini Notebook.

The UDL guidelines are a holistic framework of how to ensure course content, assessments, and activities are accessible to all learners.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a robust framework intended to promote accessibility while designing online content. 

PTCF stands for Persona, Task, Context, Format. This formaul can help write better generative AI prompts that will yield more better responses than generic questions. This formula comes from Google's own Prompting guide. The demo session 3 video gives an example of this in action!

Genially can create interactives. It doesn't generate content, but can be used to create activities, games, or assessments students can interact with to further learning. 

Genially can absolutely be used to make a case study interactive! It likely won't replace a lecture video, although some instructors do use it to create presentations that are interactive. There are a lot of templates to give you further ideas!

Yes, absolutely! Genially provides embed codes and share links. Work with the academic technology team for more specifics on how to get your creation into your course!

The team templates are located in the Templates area of Genially. The demo sessions show exactly where they are located. Genially also offers many free templates you can use and customize.  

Yes, absolutely! You'll need the video URL. Genially offers specific direcitons to embed a video into a creation using a URL. 

Genially is not an AI tool, it is a creation tool you can use. We recommend using the ideas, content, etc. you generate in Gemini Notebook in this tool to speed up creation.

Zoom Whiteboard is a great way to collaborate in real time or asynchronously. 

Google Forms are an interactive way to collect information.

Adobe Express allows you to create content, including interactive opportunities.

You can either start with a blank project in Google Vid, or you can open any existing Google Slides file and click "Convert to Video." 

Explore the Voiceover tab on the right-hand side of Google Vids. You can include either an AI generated voiceover or record one yourself. 

• Continue to practice!

• Play your video back to see where you may need to align the audio and visual components of your Vids creation. 

• Explore the Google Vids resources

We highly recommend exporting the video from Google Vids by clicking File > Download > mp4. You can then import the video into Panopto (which is part of your Canvas course) to make it shared with learners. 

No, editing in Google Vids does not change your Google Slides file at all. They are two completely different files once you have converted Slides to Vids. If you make edits to Vids and are still using the Slides, you will need to make the edits in both places. 

Yes! Google Vids is just one of the many tools that can be used to record videos for your courses. No matter what tool you're using, we always recommend uploading videos to Panopto to ensure they are stored and shared properly. 

For all for-credit courses in Canvas, Panopto videos can be embedded in any part of your Canvas course that has a text box. This includes Pages, Quizzes, Assignments, Discussion Boards, and more. You can also link directly to a Panopto video in a Module. 

For all non-credit courses in Canvas, Panopto videos can be embedded in any part of your Canvas course that has a text box, using the following instructions.

Yes! Any Panopto videos that are associated with your account will be copied and visible to students in a new Canvas course. If the video is not directly tied to your account (maybe it was uploaded to the course by a student), you may need to update the share settings in order for it to be viewed by other students in a different course. 

Currently, you can share a Quiz with SJU faculty/staff. We are expecting students to have access to Gemini Notebook in the coming weeks, and at that point,  you will be able to either share the Notebook or share the quiz.

We highly recommend using Gemini Notebook for assurance that the output is only using your source material. Of course, you will want to make sure your source material is current and accurate. Any content/assessment questions that you are not confident is accurate, we do not recommend adding to your course.

You can provide learner feedback in a variety of ways. You can create a Page in Canvas with best practices, real-life examples, or a checklist of what the preceding reflection/assignment submission should have included. You could also create a comparison chart of what a good submission compared to a developing submission might look like. Meet with us to explore more options that align with your course!

There are a couple of ways to get insight on what learners are "viewing" in Canvas. In Canvas, first embed the YouTube video on a Page, then using Modules, you can add requirements to an item then you use the View Progress button to review each student's progress status in the module. 

Alternatively, in our video management tool, Panopto, you can also embed YouTube videos within your video recording creating a similar experience to an in-person lecture where you might introduce students to a topics, share YouTube examples, and even pause a video to ask a knowledge-check style question. Then, as the video owner, you can review the video stats to see percentage completed, trends around where learners paused/dropped off, etc.

Canvas has an accessibility checker built into any page that has a text box. It will notify you of some basic accessibility concerns, but it cannot catch everything. Manually reviewing for accessibility is still necessary. The accessibilty checker runs individually in each page and assignment.

Canvas also recently launched a course-wide accessibility checker! 

Canvas has a Link Validator that will automatically test all of the hyperlinks in your entire Canvas course. You can then review and resolve each of the results in the link validator individually.

Sometimes the content identified as broken will still be visible to you. This is usually because it is a link to content in a different course that you have access to, but your students do not. You can always use student view to confirm if resources are visible to your learners. 

The Web Accessibility Initiative has great resources for both writing and designing accessible digital content. Some important initial considerations include using headers, bulleted/numbered lists, and alt text. 

The Canvas Accessibility Standards are robust and regularly evolving.

To embed the Genially activity into your Canvas course, please submit a ticket to the Academic Technology Team.

Once you have your course map, IE Grid, ROLE/SMARTER Checklist, and Canvas course completed, submit a ticket that will trigger the technical review. If you are developing a for-credit course, you will also ask your Academic Stakeholder to review these materials, and submit a final approval form for record keeping.

Yes, we highly recommend using the Link Validator tool in Canvas to verify that all links are working as expected in the Canvas course. We cannot forget about the importance of the Student View tool, either. We recommend using this tool as the last step in developing a course to experience the course as a student.

To prevent students from jumping ahead to an assignment in a subsequent module, you can use module Requirements and Prerequisites. By using a prerequisite on a subsequent module students, will be forced to fufill the module requirement(s) in an earlier module.