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Making Your Class More Inclusive

Discover the importance of making your class more inclusive and accessible. Explore accessible formats, such as SensusAccess, and learn helpful suggestions for creating accessible materials. Find out how digital resources and universal design enhance learning for all students, including those with disabilities and ESL learners. Improve organization, reinforce learning, and lower costs with accessible digital materials.

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Making Your Class More Inclusive

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  1. Making Your Class More Inclusive Accessible Formats and Suggestions

  2. Why is This Important? • Students with disabilities: vision, hearing, attentional, psychiatric, medical • Students without disabilities: ESL students, personal hardships, learning styles, etc. • Students use their phones to listen to readings (gym, bus, etc.)

  3. Universal Design = Accessibility for All • Digital materials allow more ways of access and interaction • Lower cost of materials for students • Keeping digital materials in a central space (Moodle) can help students stay organized • Reinforce learning outside of class time • Consider a +1 approach

  4. Inaccessible File • Image based files • PDF scanned without OCR • Picture of text taken with phone • Screenshot of text • Improper formatting • Structure tags • Headings

  5. What are Accessible Files? • All information can be understood by a computer, phone, or tablet • Mobile responsive text for reading on all screen sizes • Examples: all images are captioned or have appropriate alt-text, web content makes sense when read by a screen-reader, video and audio content is transcribed

  6. SensusAccess • Available to anyone with a Trinity email address • Link on Faculty and Student Portals or https://edtech.domains.trincoll.edu/sensusaccess/ • Converts digital files into accessible formats, such as searchable PDFs, eBooks, or audio files for reading/listening to with a digital device

  7. Tips for SensusAccess • Avoid special characters (. and /) in file names • Save time by uploading multiple files at a time • File size limit of 64 MB per upload • Good quality scans produce good quality results

  8. Scans for SensusAccess

  9. Ways to use SensusAccess • Link to SensusAccess in your syllabus and on Moodle • Use SensusAccess to create • Accessible PDFs before posting readings to Moodle • Accessible versions of PPT class slides

  10. Ways to use SensusAccess (Cont.) • Provide options to open different versions of a reading: • mp3, epub, mobi, Word, and/or PDF available in Moodle • Give a demonstration to your class on using SensusAccess

  11. Other inclusive ideas… • Provide your students with a link to an accessible version of your syllabus • Provide transcripts for all video content in your class (use Kaltura) • Provide accessible PDF of slides before class • Make readings available digitally • Make material available through the library:

  12. Other Inclusive Ideas… (Cont.) • Copy of textbooks on reserve • Make use of e-books and online articles the library subscribes to • Use open educational resources (OER) as primary course material • Post recordings of your lecture on Moodle with transcripts • Post a recording of your explanation of a particularly challenging or important concept

  13. Resources • Have an accommodation question? • Contact Lori Clapis • Need help with SensusAccess? • Contact the STAs or your Instructional Technologist (if you don’t know who this is, ask us!)

  14. Resources (Cont.) • Need help with Moodle? • Contact your Instructional Technologist • Create accessible documents: • https://it.wisc.edu/learn/guides/accessible-content-tech/create-accessible-documents/

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