[Athen] course inventory assessment

[Heidi Scher]

Krista,

Great information you shared! Any additional details you could share
regarding your review process would be greatly appreciated.

I've been considering doing such a review here at the University of
Arkansas. We've developed a very strong relationship with our Global
Campus. But we know that many more instructors are using digital means for
students to access "articles". I would like to include in my review those
which are in "Global Campus" and those which are supplemental to campus
courses.

Did you happen to review to see what courses had a higher percentage of
such documents?

Again, thanks for sharing!

Heidi

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:52 PM, KRISTA L. GREEAR <greeark at uw.edu> wrote:


>  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

>   ------------------------------

> *From:* athen-list [athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] on

> behalf of Sheryl Burgstahler [sherylb at uw.edu]

> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:05 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] course inventory assessment

>

>  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

>

>  ------------------------------------------------------------

> Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D.

> Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT

> Affiliate Professor, Education

> University of Washington, Box 354842

> Seattle, WA 98195

> 206-543-0622          FAX 206-221-4171

> http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb

> sherylb at uw.edu

>

>

>

>  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

>

>

>

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> 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

> To: ATHEN

> 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

> --

> Greg Kraus

> University IT Accessibility Coordinator

> NC State University

> 919.513.4087

> gdkraus at ncsu.edu

> http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess

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