Resources For Faculty

Top 3 ways to improve Word document accessibility

 

3. Build Structure into your documents by using the Style EditorHow to Add Styles to Headings

1. Highlight the word(s) or heading to which you would like to add a style.
2. In the Home tab, look in the Styles section.…

Turnitin Accessibility Topics Turnitin Accessibility Topics 

(Information borrowed from University of Colorado Boulder's web site)

Service Overview

Turnitin is an originality-checking service that instructors can enable for assignments in Canvas. There are two layers of Turnitin that students can access: originality scores…

Types of Captioning services

Automated Captions

Suitable for open access, where there isn't an individual with a disability participating. Automated captions average only about 50-90% accuracy. To enable automated Zoom captions:

• Open your RU zoom session
• Click CC - Show captions

Postproduction…

Using PDF's in Courses

Preparing to teach a course is a lot of work, and sometimes you might have a book or article in your files that were scanned and saved as PDF's. Unfortunately, if not scanned properly, PDF's are very inaccessible, and create lots of challenges for all students to read and study effectively.

When you come…

Using Zooms Automated Captions

Automated Captions are now available for all Rutgers Zoom accounts. Once activated by the host, all users will have the opportunity to benefit from this feature.

Activating Automated Captions

To activate the automated captions for users, the host will need to start closed captioning. To do…

Web Based Course Content Accessibility Quick Guide

Accessibility and disability-related accommodations must be taken into consideration throughout preparations and planning your online course to ensure that all students can fully participate.

This quick guide that will enable you to evaluate the most critical elements of your …

Web Ex and Web Ex Accessibility

Web Ex is a web conferencing tool enabling collaboration through online meetings and collaboration.  Some courses will be utilizing Web ex for their courses for online learning. 

Rutgers Information Technology has created a Quick Start Guide for Web Ex as well as Using Web Ex Meetings…

Zoom and Zoom Accessibility

Zoom is a widely used video conferencing platform at Rutgers, supporting remote teaching, office hours, advising, and meetings. To ensure your sessions are accessible to all students, including those with disabilities, it's important to understand how to use Zoom’s built-in…

ZoomText

Another software students might use is called ZoomText. ZoomText is a screen magnifier that enlarges everything on the screen and then smooths out the text and images so they are still identifiable (and not pixelated). ZoomText also allows for the student to adjust the screen colors (or students with contrast impairments, issues…