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Accessibility
Providing accessible documents ensures that students can use and effectively engage with course materials, that is that they can understand, navigate, and interact with the course website (see Web Accessibility in Mind and Introduction to Accessibility). Below are some useful resources:
- Open Educational Resources: Tune Workshop presentation by City Tech library faculty members Cailean Cooney and Joshua Peach offers a concise overview of accessibility-related formatting and design considerations as well as accessibility resources at CUNY
- A self-paced Introduction to Accessibility module designed by Bree Zuckerman is an excellent way to learn how to design accessible online resources for students
- The CUNY IT Accessibility website provides guidelines and useful information, including how to caption videos, design accessible MS Word and PDF documents, and more.
Organization of Materials
- Providing accessible documents ensures that students can use and effectively engage with course materials. The CUNY IT Accessibility website provides guidelines and useful information, including how to caption videos, design accessible MS Word and PDF documents, and more.
- To create an effective learning environment, use the guidelines provided on the Tools and Methods of Distance Learning site.
- OLAC Best Practices: IN PROGRESS
Useful Tools
- Using podcasts as teaching tool (City Tech experts).
- Memes and giffs can be incorporated into teaching.
- Quizlet is a test-taking tool that also includes additional features such as flashcards.
- To save time creating multiple-choice test questions on Blackboard, use an excellent tool My Test Bank Web developed by our own Marco Castillo.
