Faculty & Staff

If you have proctored exams, see this support article for online alternatives to in-person proctored exams.

See this support article to meet accommodations for extended due dates for assignments, discussion boards, and quizzes.

Follow the same attendance accommodation policy as your in-person course when conducting online synchronous lectures and discussions.

For notetaking accommodations, live synchronous lectures can be recorded in Zoom. You can also record a lecture offline and then upload it to Kaltura. If you use Kaltura, the lecture will be automatically machine captioned at the 75% accuracy level. Once created the captions will need to be reviewed and corrected in the Kaltura caption editor.

For lecture recording accommodations, live synchronous lectures can be recorded in Zoom. You can also record a lecture offline and then upload it to Kaltura. Both will provide lecture audio for the student.

Follow the same breaks during class sessions as your in-person course when conducting online synchronous lectures and discussions.

To ensure course material can be used by students who use assistive technology, such as the computer reading course material out loud, be sure your course material is in text format and follows accessibility guidelines. You can request to have Ally enabled in Canvas. Ally will review your course material and give you feedback as to how accessible the material is and what can be done to improve course material accessibility. Contact Dewel Lindsey to have Ally activated in your Canvas courses. For help with course material remediation, contact Dr. John Crow at the Office of Distance Learning or the Office of Accessibility Services.

Notes, handouts, slides, and other materials can be uploaded into Canvas and shared with students to access at any time. It is best to do this before the class or lecture if possible.

To meet accommodations for extra time for in-class written work, see the support article for extending due dates for assignments, discussion boards, and quizzes.

For supplemental notetaking accommodations, live synchronous lectures can be recorded in Zoom. You can also record a lecture offline and then upload it to Kaltura. If you use Kaltura, the lecture will be automatically machine captioned at the 75% accuracy level. Once created, the captions will need to be review and corrected in the Kaltura caption editor.

Instructors should use the Canvas announcement tool, detail assignment descriptions, and/or create short explanation videos using Kaltura to clearly articulate assignment instructions and expectations.

To ensure course material can be used by students who use adaptive technology, such as the computer reading course material out loud, be sure your course material is in text format and follows accessibility guidelines. You can request to have Ally enabled in Canvas. Ally will review your course material and give you feedback as to how accessible the material is and what can be done to improve course material accessibility. Contact Dewel Lindsey to have Ally activated in your Canvas courses. For help with course material remediation, contact Dr. John Crow at the Office of Distance Learning or the Office of Accessibility Services.

For students who have an accommodation to not be called on unless volunteering, follow the same policy as your in-person course.

For students who have an accommodation for modifying public speaking/presentations, follow the same policy as your in-person course, being flexible to give students suitable alternatives.

For students with accommodations for leniency with spelling and grammatical errors, instructors should follow the same policy as your in-person course

To ensure course material can be used by students who use adaptive technology, such as the computer reading course material out loud, be sure your course material is in text format and follows accessibility guidelines. You can request to have Ally enabled in Canvas. Ally will review your course material and give you feedback as to how accessible the material is and what can be done to improve course material accessibility. Contact Dewel Lindsey to have Ally activated in your Canvas courses. For help with course material remediation, contact Dr. John Crow at the Office of Distance Learning or the Office of Accessibility Services.

For students who need assignment instructions read out loud, instructors can create short videos and then upload the video to Kaltura to discuss assignment directions, expectations, and instructions. An alternative is to have Ally activated in your course as Ally can convert textual documents into speech in MP3 format. See the support article for more information on Ally’s text-to-speech conversion capabilities. Contact Dewel Lindsey to have Ally activated in your Canvas courses.

For students who read lips when people are talking, it is important to remember to face the camera and ensure your full face is visible when you speak when you deliver online course lectures.

All recoded videos provided to students by instructors are required to have correct captions that fully match the speech of the people in the video. Usually films and videos have captions files. This requirement also applies to YouTube videos and instructor-created videos. Because YouTube captioning is generally not accurate, review YouTube video captions to ensure they are correct, especially if test content is coming from the videos. Machine captions are created for content uploaded to Kaltura and are easily editable by the content creator. If you have media that is missing captioning options or you need live captioning/transcription during synchronous course delivery, please contact the Office of Accessibility Services.

Notes, handouts, slides, and other materials can be uploaded into Canvas and shared with students to access at any time. Some accommodations require that the student receive copies of the material prior to the class.

All recoded videos provided to students by instructors are required to have correct captions that fully match the speech of the people in the video. Usually films and videos have captions files. This requirement also applies to YouTube videos and instructor-created videos. Because YouTube captioning is generally not accurate, review YouTube video captions to ensure they are correct, especially if test content is coming from the videos. Machine captions are created for content uploaded to Kaltura and are easily editable by the content creator. If you have media that is missing captioning options or you need live captioning/transcription during synchronous course delivery, please contact the Office of Accessibility Services.

It is important to add due dates to Canvas assignments, quizzes, and exams, especially when students have accommodations requiring a class schedule of due dates for assignments, quizzes, and exams. Due dates will appear under Course Summary on the Syllabus page of the Canvas course site, on the student’s Canvas dashboard, and in the Canvas calendar.

If your student has an accommodation to receive assignment instructions and materials in writing on paper, instructors are asked to contact the Office of Accessibility Services for assistance.

To ensure course material can be used by students who use adaptive technology, such as the computer reading course material out loud, be sure your course material is in text format and follows accessibility guidelines. You can request to have Ally enabled in Canvas. Ally will review your course material and give you feedback as to how accessible the material is and what can be done to improve course material accessibility. Contact Dewel Lindsey to have Ally activated in your Canvas courses. For help with course material remediation, contact Dr. John Crow at the Office of Distance Learning or the Office of Accessibility Services.

For students who require sign language interpretation, instructors are asked to contact the Office of Accessibility Services for assistance.