Faculty Resources

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…

Video Accessibility Tools

Creating accessible video content ensures all students can engage with course materials effectively. This page outlines how to record and caption videos using Kaltura, Panopto, and YouTube—three tools supported or commonly used at Rutgers.

Using Kaltura

Kaltura is a video…

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

Webex is a video conferencing and collaboration platform used by some courses at Rutgers for virtual instruction, office hours, advising, and meetings. It offers tools such as video, audio, screen sharing, chat, and recording—all in a secure cloud-based environment.

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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…