Creating accessible online learning environments is a shared responsibility among instructors, staff, and departments.
To support accessible course design, CELT provides Canvas resources, tools, and training.
The ITS Digital Accessibility Team oversees the ISU digital accessibility policy, compliance, and training. Their Digital Accessibility Toolkit provides guidance and support for course materials like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, images, graphics, videos, audio, and other digital content.
The ISU Course Template is a great starting point for creating accessible and easy-to-navigate Canvas courses branded with an ISU look and feel. Whether developing your Canvas course from scratch or building upon existing content, the template allows you to:
UDOIT scans your Canvas courses to detect accessibility issues and provides useful guidance to help improve accessibility with ease.
Ally, another accessibility tool in Canvas, is supported by the ITS Digital Accessibility Team.
TidyUP identifies unpublished pages, delete outdated content, and remove empty folders to improve your UDOIT accessibility score.
Shaped by accessibility efforts across higher education, these seven core practices are arranged from quick, easy wins to improvements requiring more time or planning. Each practice makes Canvas courses easy and intuitive to navigate for students and instructors.
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If you have questions or need Canvas related support, please email celt-help@iastate.edu, describing your questions or issues (with the steps to replicate), and if it is a course-specific issue, include your course title and number. This email will create a ServiceNow ticket and notify our team to follow up with you promptly during our office hours.
