Design PLUS: How to Upgrade Your Existing Course Content Overview
In this article: * Upgrade Existing Course Content * Options for Course Content Upgrade Option 1: Upgrade at the Course Level Option 2: Upgrade at the Page Level Upgrade Existing Course Content Whether you've already started designing your course or have imported a course over from an earlier term, …
Accessibility Overview
In this article: * Getting Started * Next Steps Check out our collection of articles on accessibility best practices. These are designed to be low-effort, high-impact strategies to improve your courses' Ally scores while making your content more accessible for your students, regardless of accessibility needs an…
Checking PowerPoint Slides for Accessibility
In this article: * How to Use Ally to Identify Inaccessible PowerPoint Files * How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint's Built-In Accessibility Checker When using PowerPoint slides in a Canvas course site, two tools can help you quickly check the accessibility of your content: Ally and Microsoft PowerPoint's built-in ac…
Accessibility Tips: The Scary Truth About Scanned PDFs
In this article: * Why You Should Avoid Scanned PDFs Text on the page cannot be selected, copied, or searched. Scanned PDFs are often of poor quality. * How to Find Alternative Solutions Use the FSU Libraries Database * Work with a Librarian Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The …
Accessibility Tips: Kaltura Makes Captioning Easy
In this article: * Create, Caption, and Share Your Videos with Kaltura * Adding YouTube Videos to Kaltura via Media Upload (video owned by user) * Editing Captions in Kaltura Editing Auto-generated Captions * Uploading YouTube Videos directly to Kaltura (if video not owned by user) * Additional Se…
Accessibility Tips: Clean Up Your Ally Score with TidyUP
In this article: * How to Use TidyUP * Files * Canvas Content * Folders Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of accessibility guides . This tip describes how to use Tid…
Accessibility Tips: Converting Documents and PowerPoints to PDFs
In this article: * Why Should I Use "Save As"? * How to Use "Save As" for Microsoft * How to Use "Save As" for Mac * How to Use "Save As" with Outdated Software * What If "Print To" Is My Only Option? * How to Use "Print To" Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning ha…
Arranging PowerPoint Content in Logical Reading Order
In this article: * Understanding Reading Order * How to Check and Verify Reading Order * Handling Decorative Images Note: The instructions featured in this article were written based on Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows (Version 2412). The interface and features demonstrated below may vary based on the versio…
Accessibility Tips: Image Descriptions
In this article: * How to Add Image Descriptions * Make it Meaningful * New to Ally? Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of accessibility guides . This tip describes ho…
Accessibility Tips: Descriptive Document Titles
In this article: * How to Add a Missing Title Adding Titles in Microsoft Word Adding Titles in PDFs * New to Ally? Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of access…
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