Faculty Resources for Online Courses

Accessible Graphs Desmos

One of the tools available to students, is a free online program called Desmos (Links to an external site.). It allows the user to create graphs, and then listen to them by either reading out the plots or interpreting changes in tone and pitch.

 

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Accommodation Basics for Faculty

The Office of Disability Services partners with faculty and/or the schools to ensure that student's approved academic accommodations are met. If you have questions or concerns about any accommodations listed on a Letter of Accommodation, please start by contacting the specific coordinator listed…

This link includes instructions on how to extend the time on your online test/quiz. Be sure you are working with our office to ensure it is fully accessible, however.

Adding Live Captioning to online classes

For professors looking to teach synchronous online classes, our office recommends using WebEx. If you require live captioning, below are the steps to enable them:

Enabling WebEx- First Time Users

First-time users will need to activate your WebEx service. Please follow the steps below:…

Alternative Text for Images Who Benefits?People with Disabilities Related to Vision

A screen reader cannot understand the contents of an image without an alternative text (alt text) attached. 

Alt text provides a way to make the contents of the image accessible to a person with visual impairments, including color blindness.…

Bulleted or Numbered Lists Why Use Lists

• When using bulleted or numbered list styles to denote list structure is is essential that they are properly formatted. 
• For visual users, lists break up the text and make it easier to read and skim a document.
• Using list styles to format…

Color and Color Contrast Who can benefit?

• People with color blindness: Color blindness is a common disability, affecting 8% of men and 1 in 200 women. People with color blindness may have difficulty distinguishing between certain colors.
• People with low vision: People with low vision may have…

Creating a Kaltura Channel - and sharing it with a captionist

This page is for professors moving their courses online as a result of COVID-19. We have arranged for all of your videos to be captioned by 3Play media. To do so, please follow the instructions below:

 

Set up your Channel

Go to: https://rutgers.mediaspace.…

Creating Accessible Math

Creating accessible math is hard. As you heard in a previous video, depending on the type of browser, its version, the type of screen reader and its version, the same equation may be read in multiple ways to the student. 

Below is a video tutorial on how we would recommend you create your math, that…

Creating Navigation

In our introduction to screen readers part 1, we looked at how  a student would navigate your course content. Below is a tutorial on how to set up structure with in your documents to allow a student to easily navigate through them.

 

 

To add a…

Extended Time in Pearson's MyMathLab and MyStatsLab

To extend the time limit on an exam or quiz in Pearson's MyMathLab or MyStats lab before students start an assignment

For the entire class:

1. From the Assignments list, click the assignment title.

2. On the Overview page, click …

Faculty Accessibility Resources Faculty Accessibility Resources:

We have developed a faculty training module for providing information about working with students with disabilities.  Also, we have many resources for faculty including:

• How to Add Extended Time to Tests
• How to Create Accessible…

Faculty Accessibility Resources

As courses are moved to an online environment, we have developed faculty resources for accessible online learning to provide the most critical accessibility and accommodation considerations when moving courses, content and assessments from in-person to online formats in a constrained time…

Headings Use built-in title, subtitle, and heading stylesWhy Do This?

Headings in a document or web page make it look well-organized, give an at-a-glance view of the topics covered, help people navigate to various sections easily, and can auto-generate a table of contents for you.  Also, using…

How to do Live Web Conferencing (Big Blue Button) - and include live captions Setting up Big Blue Button

For those using canvas, you will need to use the Conferences tool:

1. Go to your course in canvas, and click on the conferences tool
2. Click the blue + Conference Button
3. Enter in the details of your…