Certificate 2025 – Accessibility
Certificates offer faculty the opportunity to engage a-la-carte with a variety of events and resources on a theme, then apply the learning to course design and teaching.
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Ideation Studio at the MILL
Ideation Studio is a series of hands-on workshops intended to help researchers, faculty, staff and students work together to solve Alaska challenges across silos. Participants network with others, come up with new ideas, expand on existing ideas and discover how…
Options for captioning course content
Auto-generated captions use a speech-to-text engine to transcribe audio. They have greatly improved over the past few years and are usually 90-95% accurate given clear audio quality, a Standard American English accent, and one speaker speaking at a time. However,…
How accessibility happens at UAF
Learn how disability accommodations work at UAF in a new series hosted by UAF Disability Services, the UA Human Resources ADA office and UAF CTL.
Accessibility at UAF: Understanding our accommodations processes
Spring Break Series: March 8th-11th,1:00-2:00pm “UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu” You have almost certainly seen this tagline – it’s at the bottom of every university website and publication. But…
Three ways to make your course more accessible
Everyone’s pinched for time and we need real solutions that are quick to implement with regard to accessibility. This tip provides a look at three areas you can improve in your course using simple ideas that are easy to execute.
Course Spotlight – BIOL 103
Edited Recording from June 12, 2020 As the instructor for a non-major GER science course, Anja Kade has a lot of students that come with apprehensions about doing well in a lab course, especially a distance lab course. Her…
Roundup of relevant Teaching Tips during coronavirus pandemic
As you begin teaching via distance, these tips from the CTL archives can help you modify your course without losing quality.
Open resources for accessibility
Accessibility is a topic appearing in mainstream conversation with increasing frequency. When it comes to making course materials accessible, there are a variety of open tools available.
Autocaptions are new in Kaltura
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ethical ramifications. IRB application. Supercontinent Pangaea. Sit in a few classes at UAF and these are terms you may hear. These are also terms that have been accurately transcribed by the new auto-captioning feature in Kaltura, UA’s customizable…
Accessibility round-up for next semester
Come join us for a round-up of CTL’s resources on accessibility and learn how to assess the accessibility of your course by considering three major categories.
Tackle Grackle to make accessible materials
Course materials need to be accessible. The Grackle add-ons assist you with making your materials more accessible even if you’re not a standard Google apps user.