Formerly known as DRC, the Educational Access Center provides accommodations, counseling, and support services to students with documented disabilities. The EAC is located on the first floor of Building 5.
CTTL offers periodic training on Flex Days for faculty on accessibility, captioning, course design, and more.
Consider joining the Immersive Experience in Learning Differences on the 10/9/24 Flex Day.
Universal course design or Universal Design for Learning (UDL), strives to engage all learners, including those with differing abilities. Universal Design for Learning involves faculty, instructional designers, distance education coordinators, accessibility specialists, instructional technologists and administrators. Faculty should consider the ramifications for all students in designing content delivery and using technology.
The new UDL Guidelines are out. Consider joining our Unpacking the UDL Toolbox on Flex Day!
Download the UDL 3.0 Draft Guidelines.
Visit the faculty repository to learn more about UDL and accessibility, or contact
Kim Saccio, Distance Education Coordinator
Course Materials and Canvas
Required course materials must be provided in an accessible format. If third-party websites, services, or products, are used as required course materials and you cannot guarantee accessibility of the content, you must be prepared to provide accessible equivalent versions of the content for students with disabilities. It is your responsibility as faculty to conscientiously select course content and materials from external sources that are accessible.
Documents, files, and images can easily be made accessible with built in tools from Adobe, Microsoft, and more.
Canvas also offers built in tools for headings, images, and tables to improve accessibility. Visit the repository for tutorial videos on using images/color and creating accessible content in Canvas.
This site, developed by DE Coordinator Chris Collins, contains a different mini-challenge for a total of ten days. Check it out for helpful tips you can implement today!
All community college campuses are required by policy and law to ensure that their websites, instructional materials, and electronic and information technology products and services are accessible to individuals with disabilities. Many of these resources, e.g., multimedia and video, require captioning to be considered accessible.
With the most recent Canvas update (July 2024), instructors can record video comments/content in Canvas nad have it automatically captioned. Contact Ricardo Flores for more details on Canvas.
Skyline College offers many options for captioning, including
- Otter/ai for livestream Zoom captioning
- Panopto video hosting and captioning
- Zoom Pro captioning of zoom recordings (takes 2-3 days)
- YouTube automatic captioning (less than optimal, but easy to use)
The faculty repository contains a wealth of information on captioning.
California Community College Resources
The California Community College office offers a wealth of help, training, and materials on accessibility, from creating accessible documents, images, and files to training opportunities and in-depth instructions for video captioning.
CTTL Resources
Visit the CTTL Faculty Repository (Lib Guide) for tutorials, handouts, and help on accessibliity issues.
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Skyline College is committed to accessibility for all students. This page outlines some faculty resources from CTTL. Please contact us or book a consultation with one of us if you need further assistance.