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Accommodations and Accessibility: Brightspace Training

September 19 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm UTC-5

Brightspace Training: Accommodations and Accessibility

Date: Thursday, September 19th 2024

Time: 2:00-3:30pm (AT) / 1:00-2:30pm (ET) / 10:00-11:30am (PT)

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Session Description: 

How can Brightspace support student accommodation? What are the accessibility features, and how can I ensure that I am thinking about some UDL principles in my teaching. This session will address these questions through demonstration, trying a few things out on our own, and coming back to community with questions and learning points. Our focus will be on the “Manage Special Access” options in Assignments and Quizzes, as well as what accessibility looks like in Brightspace and with your use of Announcements and Discussions as well as how to approach some aspects of learning analytics with accessibility in mind.

Details

Date:
September 19
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm UTC-5
Event Category:
Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

mdunleavy@yorkvilleu.ca 

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.