Creating an Equitable Learning Environment
It is important to ensure that courses, web pages, and learning materials are accessible. This may include offering alternative formats of instructional materials, making students aware of Lane's disability policy, or guiding students to the Center for Accessible Resources [CAR].
Accessibility in distance education teaching, at its core, is about designing a course that students can make their way through easily. For a distance education course, this involves developing content that can be available in multiple formats, providing consistent and coherent navigation, and using universal design principles that support easy reading and use for all learners. We believe that every move toward accessibility enhances a course’s quality for all students, and our team would be glad to work with you at any point in your project to incorporate or build more accessible content.
Accessibility Toolkit
Check out our new accessibility toolkit! It will contain resources that provide practical advice on how to make your documents, webpages, and courses accessible. We will be posting tools for using Ally, math and science equations, H5P, video/audio, and many more.
Let us know if have a tool you'd like to see on the list. Drop us an email if you need a little one-on-one assistance. We are here to help. Contact idservices@lanecc.edu or ATC@lanecc.edu.
Accessibility Checklist for Distance Education Courses
This is the place to start if you want to make documents, webpages, or courses more accessible. Being proactive rather than reactive is much easier. The accessibility checklist and Moodle Ally can be used together to aid in the creation of new accessible course materials as well as the analysis and identification of present accessibility concerns. Think of this as your baseline.
Let's Chat!
Whether it's a quick email question, a brief get-together, a full session on a particular topic or you want to review and refine the accessibility of your course, we're here to help.
Drop us a line at idservices@lanecc.edu
Contact ID Services at idservices@lanecc.edu | Contact the ATC at ATC@lanecc.edu