Summary
Find pages on this site plus other University resources that can help you review what you learned in DAP courses, participate in other professional development opportunities, explore additional accessibility skills, or get help from supporting units.
You may also get information and support by attending or reviewing recordings of accessibility events.
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Academic Technology Support Services (ATSS)
As a system-wide office, Academic Technology Support Services supports the UMN teaching mission in three areas:
- Using technology to engage learners
- Creating multimedia resources (examples of work)
- Exploring new technologies (current focus is FeedbackFruits)
Contact Academic Technology Support Services to:
- Schedule a consultation
- Plan your future course re/design project
- Make your course accessible
Academic Technology Support Services publishes the Teaching with Technology monthly newsletter and the Extra Points blog.
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Alternative Text
Add alternative text, or “alt text,” to every meaningful image in digital content.
Related Badging Program Courses
- All Courses
Content Formats
- All Digital Content
- Core Skills
Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing
The Bakken Center enriches health and wellbeing by providing interprofessional education, delivering innovative engagement programs, and advancing innovative models of care.
Offerings include:
- A public-facing Wellbeing Series
- Webinars
- A variety of mindfulness and other programs
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Canvas: Design an Accessible and Usable Course Site
Learn about good practices for creating course sites that are both usable and accessible to the widest range of students, including organizing content with:
- A landing page
- Module layouts
- A limited menu
Related Badging Program Courses
- Canvas Course Sites Course
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Center for Educational Innovation (CEI)
CEI offers a variety of opportunities to deepen your learning and expand your practices on this topic and others. They include:
- CEI list of Faculty and Instructor Programs
- CEI Teaching Resources
- CEI Events Calendar (a schedule of upcoming professional development opportunities)
- CEI newsletter (distributed monthly to subscribers)
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Choose and Create Accessible Content
All digital content should all accessible, no matter what type it is or what technology is used to display it. After you learn the accessibility core skills, explore good practices for content presented in different formats.
Related Badging Program Courses
- All Courses
Content Formats
- All Digital Content
Classroom Activities
Use multiple means of representation, engagement, actions, and expressions in your classroom activities.
Related Badging Program Courses
- Canvas Course Sites Course
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Classroom Barriers
Learn about online and face-to-face classroom barriers rather than focusing on types of disabilities.
Content Formats
- Course Activities and Materials
Computer Accommodations Program
Students, faculty, staff, guests and visitors with disabilities and medical conditions can contact the Computer Accommodations Program for adaptive technology demonstrations, evaluations, assessments, installations, training, and support. The staff can talk by phone, meet with you one-on-one, or talk with your team.
- Email [email protected].
- Submit a Digital Resource Accessibility Assessment request.
Contrast
Make sure foreground and background colors and other visual indicators contrast each other.
Content Formats
- All Digital Content
- Core Skills