An alternative assessment may be requested by a student registered with Accessibility Services if their ongoing health condition/disability impacts their ability to adhere to the attendance requirements of a subject. For example, a student might not be able to attend classes due to medical appointments or during exacerbations of their condition and managing unpredictable...
An alternative assessment may be requested by a student registered with the Accessibility Service if their ongoing health condition/disability impacts their ability to complete an exam. The time and content pressure of an exam requiring memory, sustained concentration and performance within a specific timeframe can create barriers to demonstrating knowledge. ...
Feedback in H5P is automated. Well-crafted automated feedback can save teacher time and respond to each student’s own pace of learning. While all H5P activities tell students if they get an answer correct or incorrect, there are options to enter customised feedback. Different activity types in H5P have different feedback...
Framing feedback Providing feedback is a task that creates a high mental load. When giving feedback, instructors must decide on the appropriate information to give based on their own knowledge of what will be helpful to improve it – both commenting on existing work and providing information on actions that could...
Rubrics offer benefits to teaching staff, such as speeding up the marking process and assisting marking consistency, but they also have an instructional value for students (Popham, 1997). A well-designed rubric, underpinned by activities to engage students with its criteria, can be an effective tool for learning as well as marking. Poorly designed rubrics are, of course, less helpful and can even have...
There are several ways you can make Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone. This will benefit everyone reading your materials, texts, content or worksheets and make some tasks easier for you. One of the easiest things with the biggest impact you can do is break your content into sections...
Making Microsoft PowerPoint files accessible to everyone involves: Creating the PowerPoint following the accessible content practices, detailed in this resource Facilitating the presentation in an inclusive way Following inclusive and accessible practice will benefit everyone and make some tasks easier for you. The accessibility checker automatically scans your document,...
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...
