In traditional educational contexts, providing meaningful feedback to students can enhance their learning and improve their learning performance. In online teaching contexts or in response to assignments submitted for formal assessment, providing written feedback is considered to be the most commonly used format. Research shows […]
Category: Accessibility
YouTube’s Closed Captions and How You Can Make Them Better!
You can flag YouTube videos for captioning? Yep, and the law is on your side! YouTube has more than one billion auto-captioned videos. They’ve been developing tools to engage the community in an effort to make those captions more accurate. Some channels let users contribute […]
Reaching all types of learners with UDL
You may have heard the term UDL buzzing around lately in your education circles. It stands for Universal Design for Learning and is a guiding tenet for us here in ITG. The term Universal Design originated in the world of architecture. It emphasizes designing to […]
Best Practices in WordPress Accessibility Design
Web accessibility word cloud / itjil / CC BY 2.0 Why Designing for accessibility means that you end up with a site that is clear and helpful to everyone. More information on Universal Design in higher education Colors Background images or colors should be subtle. […]
Add captions to your video
You can add captions to your video through YouTube and have the option of exporting the captions for use elsewhere. Captions enhance the accessibility of videos, and allows us, as described by Google, to “make the world’s information universally accessible and useful.” The following video […]