Course DesignAccessibility


Accessibility and Design - Why Color Matters

When you finally completed grad school and began your teaching career, you may have envisioned lecturing before a throng of students, and the satisfaction you would feel as you witness them grow in their understanding and discover their most rewarding careers. However, you may not have anticipated how much time you'd spend creating and curating instructional materials and compiling them into the nth PowerPoint presentation, agonizing over visuals, fonts, colors, and diagrams and hoping students appreciate the effort. While you may not cater to every student's aesthetic palate with your design choices, you can afford color accessibility for students with visual impairments. You may find that all students benefit from the steps you take to improve accessibility in your visual design


Utilizing a landing page in your online course design.

Whether students are just starting their online learning journey or are already seasoned online students, logging into an online course at the start of a new semester can seem daunting. As an instructor, you have the power to reduce your students’ feeling of being overwhelmed, and even help them feel encouraged and excited to get started. Incorporating a landing page design in your online course offers similar benefits and avoids a few common pitfalls that your students might experience when opening up the course for the first time. 

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