Training and Consultation

Six Essential Steps

DIY - Digital Accessibility 

The University of Maryland is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive educational and working environment. Consistently completing these six steps when creating online content improves accessibility and gives all members of our community equal access to information and services. 
 

SensusAccess

Document conversion with SensusAccess

SensusAccess is an online document conversion system supporting the transformation of text and image-based file types into different formats. This service is available for free for University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff. Users must have a valid umd.edu email address to access the service.

Ally: An ELMS-Canvas Accessibility Tool

What is Ally?

Ally is an accessibility tool designed to improve usability and accessibility for teaching and learning and is available to all ELMS-Canvas courses at the University of Maryland.

Ally integrates seamlessly with ELMS-Canvas to automatically check course content and files uploaded by instructors for accessibility issues. Using advanced machine learning algorithms, Ally generates alternative formats—such as text that is readable by a screen reader, electronic braille, or audio—that students can download and use to support their learning.

Digital Accessibility

Current Phase 2 Schedule

Technicians are currently performing hardware upgrades in UMD buildings. Hardware upgrades entail replacing all building switching and wireless access point equipment while maintaining the current network configuration. These upgrades require interruptions in wired and wireless networking while the work is performed. Outages are scheduled around peak building usage periods.

This upgrade process should result in very little, if any, disruption to users after the new hardware is installed.

View the schedule below:

Network and Infrastructure

Our network and infrastructure continue to serve as the backbone of our campus, digitally connecting our students, faculty, and staff. DIT supports wifi activity across the university while keeping connections secure through its virtual private network (VPN).

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Learning and Collaboration

UMD provides a number of different services to learn about innovational pedagogy, academic technology, as well as to connect with experts and peers. For instance, DIT helps members of the UMD community stay updated with the latest news and updates on the DIT website, and campus information on the UMD app.