This post summarizes the session, Create Accessible Canvas Content, from January 9, 2025. Session facilitators–DM Lavoie, from the Office of Digital Accessibility, and Rebecca George-Burrs, from Academic Technology Support Services–teamed up to demonstrate how to apply the 7 Core Skills of Digital Accessibility in the Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE). Use the table of contents to navigate to each of the core skills in this article: Use Headings to Format Text Format Accessible Lists Use Accessible Color Contrast Write Accessible Link Text Create Accessible Tables Use Alternative Text (alt text) for all Images Use Accessible Media Overview In order to meet the expanded Title II of the ADA , the UMN community is working to make our digital content accessible. For those using Canvas, the RCE provides tools to create accessible Pages, Announcements, Discussions, Assignments and Quizzes throughout a course site. In fact, the RCE provides ways to use all 7 Core Skills of Accessib...

  This spring Extra Points will feature a series of conversations focused on how faculty and staff around the University of Minnesota are using generative AI to do University work.  Lauren Marsh and Sara Schoen ( Academic Technology Support Services ) interviewed Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellow Nicole Dillard from CEHD’s Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development department. The following has been revised for length and clarity. Tell us about your role in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), and how this is informing your work with generative AI. Nicole Dillard: I'm a faculty member in the Human Resource Development program, which is part of the OLPD (Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development) department. I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses, and I'm piloting my project in my undergrad course OLPD 3310: Identities in the Workplace. Prior to the fellowship, I don't think my role was significantly influenced by my u...

  This spring Extra Points will feature a series of conversations focused on how faculty and staff around the University of Minnesota are using generative AI to do University work.  Lauren Marsh and Sara Schoen (Academic Technology Support Services) interviewed  Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellows Karin Quick and Kristin Shingler from the School of Dentistry. The following has been revised for length and clarity. Tell us about your roles in the School of Dentistry and how that is informing your work with generative AI. Karin Quick: I direct the division of dental public health in the School of Dentistry, and I also direct our global programs. The classroom part of our FFP project is embedded in the courses that I am responsible for and most of those I actually direct.   Kristin L Shingler: My PhD is actually in microbiology and immunology. In the School of Dentistry, I'm a teaching assistant professor, and I teach many of our basic science courses. I'm ...