[Athen] course inventory assessment

KRISTA L. GREEAR greeark at uw.edu
Thu Apr 17 16:52:05 PDT 2014


Great question. I provide the accessible files to the faculty along with a short explanation of why they are the recipient of such a prize. Whether they utilize them or not, it's hard to know for sure.

I can't really answer your other question as I work specifically with alternate format requests. The next time DRS visits DO-IT we can provide a more comprehensive list.

And one part of the project I failed to provide is that 73% of the files I evaluated were PDF, 17% were word docs and the remaining were powerpoints (rough percentages).

Krista Greear
Access Text & Technology Manager
Disability Resources for Students
(206) 543-8924
disability.wa.edu
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Krista,

These numbers are very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

When you create documents in accessible format for students in a class, does the professor then use the accessible versions in the future?

Another question, what are the typical accommodations you provide for a student who has

* a visual impairment?
* a hearing impairment?
* a learning disability?
* other disabilities?

Thanks.
Sheryl

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Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT
Affiliate Professor, Education
University of Washington, Box 354842
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On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:17 AM, KRISTA L. GREEAR wrote:

I don't have any solutions to offer but I do want to throw out some numbers and see if there are others who are feeling the weight of content conversion for files distributed through LMS.

At the UW, we use Canvas, Catalyst (UW home grown LMS), Moodle in spots and Blackboard very infrequently. Most of the reading materials distributed through LMSs are articles or chapters of books or snippets of other texts. I refer to all of these files as "articles" for simplicity. Profs frequently post links to their lecture presentations, which are not required reading per se, but are more of a reference for those who wish to review the material.

On to the good stuff -- During Winter quarter (10 weeks long), I had access to 26 different LMS sites because my students needed alt format, mainly files that would work with text-to-speech engines.

Kinds of classes: B EDUC, EDTEP, ENVIR, ENV H, GEN ST, GEOG, HSMGMT, LAW, LSJ, NSG, PHYS, SOC, SOC W

Average # of articles per class: 42 articles
Average # of pages per class: 775 pages

Total # of articles for 26 LMS sites: 1,092 articles
Total # of pages for 26 LMS sites: 20,054 pages

20,000+ pages! That is simply unbelievable I hope there are some presentations about partnering with faculty regarding LMS content/online content at ATHEN. In the meantime, if anyone has ideas for "low-hanging fruit" regarding accessible content distributed through LMSs, I would appreciate it. This quarter we have 65+ classes using LMSs. Sigh.

Best,
Krista

Krista Greear
Accessible Text and Technology Manager
Disability Resources for Students
Univeristy of Washignton






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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Kraus
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:37 PM
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Subject: [Athen] course inventory assessment

Hi All,

Has anyone developed a guide or document to help faculty members assess how much and what types of content they have in their course so they can know what type of work might need to be done to make their course accessible? I was thinking something along the lines of inventorying how many electronic documents you have, and then breaking that down into Word files vs. PDF files, then maybe even breaking things like PDF down to scanned articles, "newsletter" type documents, and converted Word docs. There could be other categories like multimedia, third party web sites, and e-books.

Thanks.

Greg
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