Accessibility
Can you help a student, how can you improve learning for all students?
This week we reflect on how to help students who may be struggling and how to apply accessibility promising practices to benefit all learners. We look at two different tools available at STCC from both the faculty and the student perspective.
All sessions review the current academic calendar and teaching tasks, as well as a teaching challenge from 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty, to inspire you to mix up your class activities and student interactions.
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Do your students need additional support?
Ally in Blackboard for Faculty
Ally is a tool built into Blackboard that checks content for accessibility. As you review the accessibility gage of files uploaded to or built in Blackboard, Ally gives you steps to retrofit the document. You can launch the Accessibility Report to view all of the identified accessibility issues and work toward making fixes.
Ally in Blackboard for Students
Ally is a tool built into Blackboard that checks content for accessibility and lets Student can use the Ally Alternative Formats menu to download the format best suited for their learning. Formats include MP3 audio, ePub, and language translation.
Grackle in Google
Grackle checks Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets for accessibility. It is available to all students, faculty, and staff at STCC. See how to launch Grackle. You can use your own Google Documents or Use the Template of a practice syllabus.
Review the content, respond to prompts, ask questions, and participate in activities presented in the video. Responses will be sent to the Center for Online & Digital Learning (CODL) and the faculty member themselves.