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A Well-Designed, Accessible Course in Canvas
From an empty Canvas shell to a course you can reuse every term. Built for any instructor, even one who has never opened Canvas.
A Well-Designed, Accessible Course in Blackboard
The same design-first path for Blackboard: structure, assessment, grading, and accessibility, with the Blackboard-specific steps you need.
Teaching Well in Higher Ed: A Practical Foundation
A research-based foundation for college teaching: course design, active learning, UDL, fair assessment, and academic integrity.
Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
From the difference between UDL and Universal Design to CAST’s three principles and a four-step review process built at Wichita State: a practical deep-dive for designing courses that reach the range of learners.
How Students Learn: Learning Theories for College Teaching
How students actually learn, with the research-based why behind the how and concrete classroom moves for each theory.
Managing the In-Person Classroom
Set up the room, prevent problems, handle disruption, facilitate difficult conversations, and support a distressed student while staying in your role.
AI Literacy for Instructors
Teaching and assessing when students have AI. Treats detection as a dead end and focuses on redesigning assignments and assessment.
Fill Your Cup: Caring for Yourself as an Educator
A warm, gentle course about pouring some care back into yourself: rest, protecting your energy, and reaching for support.
Starting Strong: The First Day of Class
The first day shapes the term. Prepare, set the tone, build rapport, and start with momentum instead of just reading the syllabus.
Evaluating Your Course for Quality
Review your own course for quality: alignment, clarity, assessment, accessibility, and engagement, with an online deep-dive.
Accessible Face-to-Face Presentations
Make your in-person presentations work for everyone: speak and lead discussion so all students can hear you, and use handouts, slides, and video so they can all see and benefit.
Accessible Online and Conference Presentations
From reading your online audience to handling every conference session type: how to make online and conference presentations accessible, with current WCAG and ADA standards built in.
Assistive Technology Basics
The basics of assistive technology: what it is, common tools for vision and hearing, AT for aging and mental health, and the accessibility features already built into your phone and computer.
Creating Accessible Digital Documents
Build documents everyone can read: use your software’s tools and accessibility checker, handle color, images, and tables, save without stripping your work, and keep your LMS uploads accessible with Ally.
Impairment Awareness
Build disability awareness: the range of visible and invisible disabilities, respectful language and interaction, accessibility versus accommodation, and Universal Design that reaches everyone.
Creating Accessible Video
Make your videos reachable by everyone: captioning, transcripts, audio description, and using your LMS video tools so accessibility features switch on.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
The practical habits that make web content reachable by everyone: headings, alt text, color, links, captions, and forms, updated to WCAG 2.1 AA and the 2024 federal rule.
Teaching Dual Credit Well: The College Side of Concurrent Enrollment
You already know how to teach. This course covers the college side of teaching a dual-credit course in Kansas: rigor and parity with the campus section, alignment with the college department, FERPA, academic integrity, and the annual review.