Under the MY COURSES box, click on the link to ENGL 100 - College Composition (FA 08, #0001) You are now on our ANNOUNCEMENTS page! Read the ANNOUNCEMENTS carefully and follow instructions. at least 2 hours browsing through your new online classroom on the first day: read your HANDOUTS, your DISCUSSION BOARD and your CLASS TOOLS C. Three months or so ahead of start date check your new classroom for – ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Compliance, and make changes if necessary. GOOD DESIGN CREATES ACCESSIBILITY AS WELL AS EASE OF USE. While with with (Americans with Disabilities Act), there are also a number of best practices design strategies which you can use to make your class even more accessible and easy to use. Good design will help all your students find what they need, and use what they find. Here are some tips to make your more accessible to everyone: Advise students of accessibility strategies such as on their "View" menu, which will enlarge the font on a web page or reposition the page on their screen. If you create links to other websites, make sure they offer accessibility options such as "rollover" descriptions, audio clips, long underlined, brightly colored links, large type, and "chunked" script, such as the script you're reading now. Advise students to out their course documents if needed, and show them how reduce large type, eliminate images, and select/copy/paste the document to a new page of Word, to reduce its size -- then print it out. Remember how you hate to read online? So do your students. Advise students to take a break from the screen and rest their eyes frequently. Blackboard offers an extensive handbook on accessibility, with many ideas you can easily integrate into your classroom: For additional assistance with accessibility contact the DSPS office/High Tech Specialist at 439-2181 x3279 D. Three months ahead of start date: Designing for “community”
Under the MY COURSES box, click on the link to ENGL 100 - College Composition (FA 08, #0001) You are now on our ANNOUNCEMENTS page! Read the ANNOUNCEMENTS carefully and follow instructions. at least 2 hours browsing through your new online classroom on the first day: read your HANDOUTS, your DISCUSSION BOARD and your CLASS TOOLS C. Three months or so ahead of start date – check your new classroom for ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Compliance, and make changes if necessary. GOOD DESIGN CREATES ACCESSIBILITY AS WELL AS EASE OF USE. While with with (Americans with Disabilities Act), there are also a number of best practices design strategies which you can use to make your class even more accessible and easy to use. Good design will help all your students find what they need, and use what they find. Here are some tips to make your more accessible to everyone: Advise students of accessibility strategies such as on their "View" menu, which will enlarge the font on a web page or reposition the page on their screen. If you create links to other websites, make sure they offer accessibility options such as "rollover" descriptions, audio clips, long underlined, brightly colored links, large type, and "chunked" script, such as the script you're reading now. Advise students to out their course documents if needed, and show them how reduce large type, eliminate images, and select/copy/paste the document to a new page of Word, to reduce its size -- then print it out. Remember how you hate to read online? So do your students. Advise students to take a break from the screen and rest their eyes frequently. Blackboard offers an extensive handbook on accessibility, with many ideas you can easily integrate into your classroom: For additional assistance with accessibility contact the DSPS office/High Tech Specialist at 439-2181 x3279 D. Three months ahead of start date: Designing for “community”