The first step is to ensure that students with disabilities see STEM as accessible to them and that all students, can access all materials to learn. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses have unique issues to solve when it comes to designing accessible materials. Professor Kelly
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Presenters: Cheryl Chapman, Helen Graves, and Shawn Valcarcel – Instructional Designers, California Virtual Campus Description: See what treasures await you in our Accessibility Toolbox! Making your online content accessible creates a more equitable learning environment for all students. Learn about tools available to scan and fix accessibility
Read more →Presenter: Jessica Lopez – Vice President, Associated Student Government, Coastline College Description: Jessica Lopez is a disability advocate and full-time student at Coastline College triple-majoring in Business, Economics, and Communication. Born without hands and feet, Jessica’s lived experience as a disabled student informs her advocacy for inclusive
Read more →Topic 1: Universal Design for Learning & Canvas Presenter: Jared Stein – Vice President, Global Education Strategy/Higher Education, Instructure Description: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can improve teaching and learning in higher education. UDL is a teaching approach that focuses on the needs and abilities of all
Read more →We are excited to be joined by Dr. Hussam Kashou, Associate Dean of Online Learning & Educational Technology at Long Beach City College (LBCC). Dr. Kashou will present on the strategies LBCC took to successfully deploy Ally and the role it is playing in LBCC’s culture of
Read more →Just like any good carpenter building a house, you need a toolbox of things to help you design and develop a course with accessibility in mind. In this session, we’ll introduce the suite of tools—PopeTech, WAVE, UDOIT and Ally—available to our CCC faculty and instructional designers, and
Read more →PDF accessibility is an important aspect of online education. The California Community Colleges Accessibility Center has updated our Zoom-facilitated Campus PDF Accessibility session and will be presenting a high-level overview in our April 8 Accessibility Office Hours. In this session, we will demonstrate different techniques for applying
Read more →During this session, we will provide you with ways in which you can use Ally’s Institutional Report to measure progress and improve the accessibility of Canvas course content across your colleges and districts. We will also show you how to run usage data reports that will help
Read more →This webinar serves as the perfect opportunity for DSPS staff and counselors to become more informed about the CVC Exchange and the ways in which they can continue to support student completion. This session will focus on the CVC Exchange cross-enrollment registration processes, as well as the
Read more →With the California Community Colleges making Ally available to support the system’s commitment to inclusive learning, CVC-OEI and the Blackboard Ally Team are partnering to offer monthly programming to the colleges and districts using Ally. These monthly sessions will highlight best practices for deploying and adopting Ally
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