Posts Tagged Canvas

CVC Accessibility Webinar Series: Accessibility Toolbox Treasures

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

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CVC Accessibility Webinar Series: Student Experience & Universal Design for Learning

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

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CVC Online Course Design Accessibility Webinar Series/Session 1: Let’s Start with Universal Design for Learning & Statewide Resources

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

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Making Documents Accessible

Making your online content accessible creates a more equitable learning environment for students. While presenting your content on Canvas pages is always optimum, at times there may be a valid reason to include an external document (Word, PowerPoint, PDF) for student use. When that’s the case, just

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2 Powerful Tools to Humanize Your Online Course with Video

Video is a powerful way to humanize your online course and provide content in multiple formats which creates a more equitable experience for students. Screencast-o-matic is a simple-to-use video recording/editing tool. Studio is a Canvas integration that turns passive viewing into active engagement. Pair the two together

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5 Smart Strategies to Enhance Your Course Design

Most faculty are aware there’s a direct link between course design and student success. But have you ever thought about how your design methods can impact YOUR success in teaching a course? Using Canvas as our backdrop, this webinar will introduce five simple yet often-overlooked strategies for

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Canvas and Your Accessibility Toolbox

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

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Time Saving Tips Using Speedgrader and the Canvas Grade Book

Who doesn’t want to save time grading and improve efficiency for students?! Using Speedgrader and the Gradebook in Canvas allows you to view and grade student submissions while using a simple or complex rubric. Learn how to incorporate the annotation tools and comments feature to provide timely

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