[Athen] online classes considerations

[Jennifer Knott]

For us at Columbus State University, it's not all or one thing. We are
rolling out an approach, keeping in mind that, at the least, critical
documents need to get into the course (syllabus, schedule, gradebook).
After getting familiar with how the interface works, we are then inviting
use of accessible document templates, followed by demonstration and
training. If we had the luxury of time, we would have folks make their Word
or PDF documents accessible first, but for now we are directing people to
use HTML files and providing accessible template structure into which they
can copy their content and make it accessible using the LMS tools.
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Jennifer Knott, Ed.D.
Director, Center of Online Learning
Columbus State University
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:24 PM Keith Kolander <kkolander at stchas.edu> wrote:


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> Our college will be, as others already are, moving

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> temporarily to all online classes.  What kind of

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> things are you making faculty aware of who don’t have any

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> online presence, specifically about types of documents

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> they post?  Are you recommending they use pdfs over

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> Word docs? Or vice versa?  I know in general all documents

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> need to be accessible, but in this temporary situation, what

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> advice are you giving faculty on this?

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> As far as math stuff, one faculty wants to post stuff using

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> pdfs.  That is not as accessible for reading math as a Word doc is.

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> How are you dealing with that with math faculty?   (We use NVDA+Math

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> Type and MathPlayer to read Word math stuff on campus.  Students

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> needing math screen readers for exams at home is another issue.)

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> Thanks for any advice on this,

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> Keith Kolander

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> Adaptive Technology Specialist

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> St. Charles Community College

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> Cottleville, MO  63376

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> kkolander at stchas.edu

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