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Did you know that Canvas offers an accessibility checker anywhere in your course where you use the Rich Content Editor. The Rich Content Editor Accessibility Checker can assist you in maintaining accessibility requirements within your Canvas content. The Accessibility Checker is located in the Rich Content Editor menu bar.

The Accessibility Checker verifies attributes within the editor and informs you of any common accessibility errors. The Accessibility Checker provides a user-friendly explanation about errors and provides the fields or menus needed to fix the error. The explanation also provides a link to additional resources to educate yourself about the accessibility guideline.

Learn more about this tool and how you can use it to check your course design by reviewing the Canvas Guide, How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor?. This will be a great resource for encouraging more accessible course content!

Did you know that the SOE Academic Technology Specialist has a number of Canvas templates available through the Canvas Commons that you can easily incorporate into your courses? These templates can be downloaded from the Canvas Commons and then edited to fit the specific needs of your individual course. Below are a few examples:

Critical Reflection Journal Assignment with Rubric
Module structure by Module and Week

There are other SOE related resources available through the Canvas Commons that you can locate by searching for Carla Wilson. Consider taking a look at all of the options that are available and if you are looking for something that you don’t see, please reach out.

As many of you may have questions about how the new technology initiatives will affect your instruction, we wanted to share with you a recent update to their website.

The Technology Initiatives FAQ page is now live. From there you will be able to see many questions about the general move, the Microsoft 365 adoption, and so much more. Please consider taking a look and also notice at the bottom that there is a way for you to submit any questions via the “Submit Your Questions” section.

Please be aware that we are aware of a major outage with Canvas. Some users are experiencing slowness and errors when trying to access Canvas. Instructure is investigating the issue and hope to have it resolved quickly.

Check the status of this outage through the Instructure website.

The first UNCG Libraries Research & Applications Webinar of Fall 2022 is this week on “Publishing Support in the University Libraries” by Anna Craft, Tuesday September 20th at 11am.

Description: Is academic publishing part of your job, or part of your future career? This session will help you understand the areas of publishing support from the UNCG University Libraries–particularly in the area of open access–including financial awards and discounts for publishing open access articles and support for creating open access journals. We’ll also offer information on additional scholarly publishing funding and award opportunities available on-campus and off, and we’ll answer your questions about publishing support at UNCG.

These webinars are also available on the UNCG workshop webpage. They’re 30 minutes long, and recorded, so please sign up if you want an email of the recording. These are available for all UNCG students, instructors, and staff. You can see the future sessions and archived webinar on the UNCG Libraries webinar page.

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