[Athen] Canvas Commons question

Deborah Armstrong armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu
Sun Aug 30 15:51:17 PDT 2020


It seems like the first step should be to give teachers a list of what's not accessible - image-only PDFS and camera phone pictures of textbook pages, for example.

--Debee


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Stephen (Alex) Marositz
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Canvas Commons question

Hello Debee

I know this is not exactly what you asked for, but, I've been spending evenings during the pandemic answering questions in student assistive technology user groups about accessing courseware, particularly if they are in Blackboard 9.1 since that's what I'm familiar with.

This isn't a fully flushed out thought, but I think there needs to be some kind of relatively standard best practice for students when they encounter courseware that poses a barrier whether it is technically accessible or not. I know that on my campus, we spend a lot of time developing equally effective alternate access plans even when there is no obvious barrier. I wish students knew to request to have access to them or would talk to their instructor about them immediately, not delay until they can talk to they're DSS councilor or wait to hear back from someone on a Facebook group, none of whom have a great understanding of the circumstances.

And, from my prospective, updating the equally effective alternate access plan only will make it more effective the next time it comes up.


Alex Marositz
Information Security and Compliance Office
Information Technology
California State University, Dominguez Hills
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 10:52 AM
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Subject: [Athen] Canvas Commons question

Has anyone ever seen an alternate media course in Canvas commons?

I'm on vacation now but I'm puttering around putting together a Canvas course on using alternate media services at our college.

I've got lots of content already but was hoping to find existing material over in Canvas commons.

I haven't yet, but maybe I need different search keywords.

I'm really hoping my dean will like this course. I email out all sorts of info to our students and turning it in to a course is super fun.

If you have any thoughts about material in Canvas commons that might be useful, let me know. Unless my college forbids it, I intend to put this course in to commons as well.
Vacation is for doing the fun stuff!

--Debee

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