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There are several ways to make your subject site in Canvas accessible for everyone. This will benefit all of your students, but will be critical for those with access requirements. One of the easiest things, with the biggest impact, you can do is break your content into sections using...
What makes a PDF accessible? Highlightable text (scanned PDFs or image-only PDFs are not accessible). Tags that help students who use screen readers to navigate the document (e.g., if you use heading styles in Microsoft Word, it will create a tag to convert the content structure). If you have...
Access is the UTS database for managing reasonable adjustments for students registered with the Accessibility Service. In Access these are called accommodations. As a Subject Coordinator you can use Access to: Review and approve requests for students View students with provisions in your subject Accessibility Consultants submit reasonable adjustment...
Follow these steps to facilitate an inclusive online or on-campus class for your students. This will be critical for students with accessibility requirements and benefit everyone. Create accessible learning materials. Follow the accessible content practices in your Canvas course, documents and presentations to ensure that all students can access the materials. ...
At UTS we are committed to creating inclusive learning environments to ensure that all students, including those living with disabilities and/or medical conditions can access their learning materials, actively participate, and engage in their studies and coursework. Inclusive teaching practices can help ensure that all students feel like they...
Inclusive language is language that does not reflect prejudices, stereotypes or discriminatory views of particular people or groups. Sometimes called non-discriminatory language, it avoids false assumptions and assists in promoting respectful relationships. At UTS we adopt the social model of disability, which focuses on access requirements that are necessary...
The Qwickly attendance tool is currently being improved for use by students and staff with accessibility requirements. To facilitate inclusive practices and help improve the overall learning experience for your students, please follow the steps and best practice recommendations below New tabs From Canvas, opening Qwickly attendance opens in...
To access Qwickly within Canvas, go to your Course Navigation Menu > Qwickly Attendance. If you don’t see Qwickly Attendance in the course navigation menu, you can turn it on by selecting Settings, Navigation in your course menu and then drag the Qwickly Attendance menu item up to be...
Instructors can use Qwickly to take attendance for a particular section, or groups of students in a Canvas course. The Attendance tool allows an instructor to change their attendance taking mode in a course if groups or sections are detected. If you have not yet enabled course groups/sections attendance in...
The Records page displays a table of all the attendance records that have been submitted for the course. If the course also uses Course Sections/tutorials/labs student grouping, there will be tabs above the table so instructors can access a table that lists all students and also the tables for each group/section. Navigate to...
