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Laura, Course design for neurodivergent students is often closely related to an area of accessibility known as cognitive accessibility. The question at the heart of cognitive accessibility in course design is "How can I make my course easier to process and understand?" There are a lot of strategies ...

Celine, You've hit on what I think is one of the few faculty development strategies that works for accessibility: one small step at a time. Embracing accessibility, learning about it, and applying it to your courses is an involved process, and most faculty hit a barrier somewhere before fully making ...

Heather, My title is "Instructional Consultant." For me, this title reflects the fact that our team is largely responsible for supporting faculty in instructional design, rather than actually performing that design for faculty. Some of our responsibilities include one-on-one instructional consultations ...

Does anyone have experience with Canvas accessibility tools (particularly "whole course" scanners) other than Blackboard Ally or UDOIT / UDOIT Cloud? Our institution is opening up an RFP and we need alternatives to Ally / UDOIT to ensure the process moves forward smoothly. Thank you for sharing! Eva ...

Barry and all, At Ball State, our Instructional Consultants are part of a larger Teaching Innovation Team, alongside faculty engagement. About a week ago, we distributed a survey to all faculty asking for brand impressions of our team and our services. The survey asks respondents which services they ...