This webinar provides an overview of the available tools for improving the accessibility and usability of content in ELMS-Canvas.

This webinar will provide an overview of the six areas that have the greatest impact on making your online content more accessible. Unintentional barriers to learning can happen when headings, links, color, images, tables, and multimedia are incorrectly used or formatted.

Please join us for an overview of Ally, the ELMS-Canvas accessibility tool. Topics will include:

Please join us for an overview of Ally, the ELMS-Canvas accessibility tool. Topics will include:

An overview of the professional captioning request process. If you've been notified by ADS that you have a student with a captioning accommodation, UMD has created a simple process for captioning your lectures or other media that you post on ELMS.

An overview of extending time in ELMS-Canvas in both Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes.* How to assign quiz availability to specific students/sections * How to check that all settings are correct, before students start taking the quiz

This webinar will provide an overview of the six areas that have the greatest impact on making your online content more accessible. Unintentional barriers to access can happen when headings, links, color, images, tables, and multimedia are incorrectly used or formatted.

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

This webinar will explore the available tools for improving the accessibility and usability of content in ELMS-Canvas.

Learn how to implement crucial elements of the six essential steps in your online content. Each week, DIT’s IT Accessibility team and attendees will spend 45 minutes looking at a different topic. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon until 12:45 p.m.