Engineering Studio for Advanced Instruction & Learning
These tutorials are for faculty members teaching distance education (online) in Texas A&M University's College of Engineering.
This workshop includes an overview of how to set up quizzes and exams using the Canvas quiz tool.
Learn about different types of questions and the testing options to ensure you create a secure test. Also, make sure those with accommodations have enough time to take their exams.
35-minute video by Christine Roach and Enrico Indiogine, Ph.D.
Continue ReadingLearn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Continue ReadingContrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.
This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).
Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.
Continue ReadingIt is important to create accessible links throughout your documents and courses for your students. In this post, we’ll give your guidelines to help you create accessible links.
We’ll also show several examples of “bad” and “good” links to help you distinguish what types of links to use in your documents.
Continue ReadingImages meant to convey meaning must have an alternate or “alt” text descriptions. Decorative images must be marked as such so they can be skipped by screen readers.
Doing both ensures you will create a document with accessible images throughout.
Continue ReadingHeadings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or webpage), so they can jump heading-to-heading to find information.
By creating accessible headings, we allow every one of your students to scan through your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.
Continue ReadingIn this tutorial, you will learn simple techniques to improve the look of your lecture videos: workspace setup, lighting sources, web camera placement, and finally, quality audio.
Continue ReadingIn this video, you’ll learn about the most impactful ways to make accessible online courses.
We’ll discuss alternative (or “alt”) text, contrast ratio, closed captions, and audio transcripts in detail. All of these components are important for ensuring the accessibility of your courses and course materials.
Continue ReadingThis video describes the importance of developing accessible online courses. Providing accessible course content and materials helps everyone taking your course, not just those with disabilities.
By keeping accessibility in mind while you develop your online courses, you’ll be more prepared and less likely to need last-minute accommodation revisions. Most needs will be built-in already.
Continue ReadingSee how to use the Aggie Code of Honor to help prevent cheating on your exams.
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