As everyone is continuing to work on courses this summer and mostly staying home, the TLTC has decided to continue the Teaching Breakfast Online for the summer.  We will be using Office 365 Teams for these calls on Thursday mornings for the rest of the summer.  The next Summer TB Online is tomorrow, Thursday, July 2, from 8:30 - 10:00am.  The TLTC is offering a place to come together online to talk about the new modalities you are using to teach and hopefully get a few answers.  If you are free at all during this time, please feel free to join the conversation.   We will be connecting to the TB Online through Office 365 Teams: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTc5NWIzMmMtNjY5YS00NTk4LTk4NmQtYWM1NDc5ZjQ5NGE1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2c9b1a8-d1ad-4c9f-9172-728a8c08eb65%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22acdbd4c6-8ceb-4ccb-b54d-35c4ab20321f%22%7d>

Over the summer we will explore specific topics around best practices for different teaching modalities.  For the next 6 weeks the TLTC is running a Course Refresh Weekly Challenge, which is built to help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities.  Each challenge is based on the TLTC's simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist<https://teaching-learning-technology-center.sunycreate.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OSCQR-1-page.pdf>. We hope that as you build your course(s), the checklist is helpful as some of the points are simple and mechanical and some are deeper and get to how a course can be designed and how students are evaluated.

Here is this week's challenge:

Select a course you will be teaching in the fall and go through all of the files that are loaded into the Blackboard shell for that course.  Locate all course readings that were scanned from other locations (scans of book chapters, or articles, or other locations).  If there are articles, course readings and other published materials in the red, contact library electronic reserves ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) to determine if there is a more current source that can be provided in a more accessible version. Just as our understanding of accessibility has grown in the past few years, so has the library's and the vendors and journals. Sometimes it is better to get a new, fresh copy that is accessible from the start than try to remediate an older PDF.

For other course materials that need to be made accessible see the "How To Materials" section below.



Supporting Materials:

  *   OSCQR Video Explanation for Accessibility Standards<https://youtu.be/uPIdyuxAisY> (1:46) (https://youtu.be/uPIdyuxAisY)
  *   Faculty Perspective on Blackboard Ally<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqV2YSBOZ0E&feature=emb_title> (6:04) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqV2YSBOZ0E&feature=emb_title)
  *   Student Perspective on Blackboard Ally<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bInyKh_Y4&feature=emb_title> (6:37) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bInyKh_Y4&feature=emb_title)

How To Materials:

  *   Accessing Content Collection to see Ally score for all materials<https://youtu.be/b3ljX7LZAfE> (4:21) (https://youtu.be/b3ljX7LZAfE)
  *   Materials for how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to remediate a PDF<https://oneonta.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=%2Fkb_view.do%3Fsysparm_article%3DKB0010577%26sysparm_rank%3D1%26sysparm_tsqueryId%3D9184e9881bb95010909f0f6e6e4bcb34>
  *   Checklist for the Creation of Accessible Word Documents<https://teaching-learning-technology-center.sunycreate.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ADA-Checklist-for-Syllabus-One-Page-July-2020.docx>

I look forward to talking more about your ideas about accessible documents if you are able to join us.  See you Thursday if you can make it!

Chilton

Chilton Reynolds
TLTC Coordinator
COIL Campus Coordinator
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: 607-436-2673