Engineering Studio for Advanced Instruction & Learning
It 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.
Continue ReadingBy law, we must caption videos we provide students at 99% accuracy. Captions should have correct spelling and grammar and provide appropriate punctuation and capitalization. This is so students may access and understand the content in the video regardless of their situation.
This video gives a quick overview of how to edit auto-captions created in Mediasite and YouTube. Since neither produces captions at 99% accuracy, we must edit the captions to increase the accuracy.
Continue ReadingLearn how to share videos in google classroom.
Continue ReadingIn this video tutorial, we show how to verify your YouTube account and upload your video lesson. Then we show how to ensure YouTube accepts it, classifies it, and restricts access to it.
In the end, we briefly discuss how YouTube adds Closed Captioning to your uploaded video.
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