The Online Learning Consortium recently published an article called “Emotional Safety in Online Learning: A C. A. R. E. Framework for Human-Centered Digital Teaching” by Pierre Einar Wright, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Counseling and...
COD faculty are already doing meaningful work to make course materials more accessible this fall! During Kickoff Week and the first week of classes, faculty opened Ally’s Instructor Feedback 2,341 times and made 1,441 accessibility fixes. Faculty also opened the...
Whether you are settling into the new semester or tweaking course shells on the fly, our team has a few quick Blackboard updates to save you time and smooth out the student experience. Here is what is live, what is coming this week, and a quick checklist item for your...
As this is my last week at Faculty Chair of Online Quality and Learning Technologies, I thought I'd pull out my top ten most popular blog posts, by views, out of the 122 (!!) I have written over the years. 10. Why you should use Yuja for your videos. In this post, I...
Ok, There is a lot that does not change, so I will start with that: All gradebook columns, categories, and overall grade calculations Grade schemas and grading settings Flexible grading (opens and works the same) The List View / Gradable Items (no changes) <- my...
As you know, we all have access to Adobe tools through the college, so we might as well use them. Of course, Acrobat is the PDF application many of us use. Have you checked its accessibility options? I want to emphasize a couple of them in this post, with a focus on...
