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Notion is a place where students can keep track of goals, to do lists, journaling, and note-taking.

~ Catie Hart

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This free tool allows you to upload an image, add any applicable details and then it will generate a detailed image description along with Alt-text that can be used for instructional design and presentations. On this site you can find other tools to help with instructional design such as a rubric creator and a question generator.

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Poll Everywhere has a variety of types of questions you can ask and ways to display the answer. I've seen it used in all-staff meetings at my company to have people submit their dream vacation destination by tapping on a map, and then we could see the map on the screen light up with everyone's responses; and to have people submit their one-word answers to questions (like the name of a person who helped you recently, or your favorite thing about the job) and make a word cloud out of it. I could see these being super fun for a class with quizzes or feedback.

Michelle Brown

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$: Google's best accessibility feature is - it's FREE. While Google Workplace is a paid feature - nearly all of the features in Google Workplace are free for individual Google Users. You can use/ community collaborate on Google Word, Excel, PowerPoint equivalents. Host group video meetings, manage/share calendars, store passwords/notes/photos, & more - just by having a Google account.

Multiple Services Included: Google Workplace services are listed in multiple categories along the Padlet page - showing that staying within Google Workspace creates all-in-one experience for a variety of accessibility needs. Having multiple needs met in a single website is not just a time saver - but helps those with less digital literacy navigate more independently.

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Blooket is a great tool for reviewing and practicing different skills. It allows students to respond individually. It also encourages answering correctly vs. quickly which I find really motivating for students. I can get a quick understanding of how students are doing with certain concepts. In addition to review for things I might have taught, I also think it is a great tool for students to use to generate their own questions about a topic they have become an expert in. Recently, I have had students work on "Expert Projects" where they research a topic and then have to present information to the class. One component of this is for students to create an assessment. Many students used Blooket and it was a great way for me to see their understanding based off of the questions they asked their peers to answer.

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Shout out to JamBoard!

I have used JamBoard in my classroom when I was a middle school teacher, in professional development courses, and now in the corporate world as a team collaboration tool. It is vary versatile! I must admit though that I prefer it in adult/professional environments because when I used it with middle schoolers, there was always at least one student who would use it inappropriately, and since it is live, I could not preview their posts first. I think the format of JamBoard is very easy to use and the colors and variety of tools are very engaging for both kids and adults alike! Sadly, JamBoard is going away at the end of 2024. Not sure what will replace it, but hopefully a similar tool will be developed! (post by M. Milligan)

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HUDL (Hopkins Universal Design for Learning)

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HUDL (Hopkins Universal Design for Learning)

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Hopkins Universal Design for Learning (HUDL) was developed at Johns Hopkins University. It provides a simple framework for incorporating UDL into your course/training. It also includes a “Getting Started” guide for instructors, exemplars of how the HUDL framework has been applied in real-life instructional contexts, and an extensive resource library, full of links to helpful sites and tools.

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How can I support all of my students and give them more opportunities to succeed?

How can I create an environment that supports the diverse nature of my students?

How can I design a more inclusive course?

Hopkins Universal Design for Learning (HUDL) is here to help you.

HUDL provides faculty with guidelines and support for integrating UDL with minimal effort and high impact, with the potential to significantly affect the JHU community while fulfilling the University's mission, "To educate its students and cultivate their capacity for lifelong learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world."

The universal design for learning (UDL) framework provides an approach to designing environments that support learning variability. UDL practices help ensure all learners can meet learning goals by removing barriers to learning and building flexibility into the curriculum. More About UDL

Aligned to the Center for Applied Special Technology's (CAST) three main principles of UDL, the HUDL initiative has designed a framework that includes course design and facilitation   under the overarching umbrella of inclusive pedagogy and accessibility, both of which are an inherent part of UDL. Areas of Focus

UDL focuses on creating an inclusive learning environment in which all learners can succeed. Integrating UDL into your course works best when you implement it from the start, however, there are strategies faculty can use to integrate UDL into existing courses. Getting Started

Working with HUDL ambassadors, faculty from across all divisions have already implemented UDL into their courses. Explore the exemplars to get ideas for your own cours es and learn how faculty have integrated the three UDL principles across all four JHU focus areas. Exemplars

This library of resources contains links to articles, tips, strategies, and other helpful materials related to universal design for learning. Explore Resources

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Skip to content How can I support all of my students and give them more opportunities to succeed? How can I create an environment that supports the diverse nature of my students? How can I design a more inclusive course?

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Kaltura Learning provides tools that can be used for editing video for your lesson/training. It can also be used to create a video quiz (by adding multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions) or add prompts at important points in the video for learners to think about or respond to. This can increase the level of engagement and turn what is often a passive activity (watching a video) into an interactive one. The video/video quiz can be incorporated into the Canvas LMS as an assignment or quiz.

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Microsoft Teams has a Whiteboard feature that can be used in chats or meetings that has built-in templates (for ease of use) that allow teams to brainstorm, add ideas, and supports both visual and hands-on learners as images (post-it notes or shapes) can be moved around the screen to represent new ideas/flows. (Ami R.)

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"Whole-class brainstorming, freeform ideation, discussion activities, polling and formative assessment, and a collaborative project canvas with student attribution are just some of the features that let you put students in the driver’s seat of their learning.

Plus, students can access in classroom or during remote learning."

https://www.smarttech.com/en/education

-Carla Polk

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Another recommendation for Microsoft Teams. In addition to multiple modes of communication (chat, video, audio), it's also a great way to share files and ideas. One of my favorite tools is the task list where you can create and assign tasks. This would be great for group project organization!

--Tabetha Gould

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Classic Teams is the Teams app for work or school you're currently using. The new Teams for work or school has been reimagined from the ground up with speed and performance in mind, providing a faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible experience. With a faster Teams, you can launch the app and join meetings more quickly and have more time to focus on business tasks.

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Google Keep, integrated into one's google account, is a great way to support self-management of tasks during a course. There are checklist options as well as an option to set reminders. As an instructional designer, providing assignments with integrated Keep elements (assignments chunked into a checklist, due dates to add as reminders, and even benchmark dates for those chunked list items) helps learners engage with assignments in a structured fashion even if they need support around executive function.

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Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Over 50 different types of media can be used in a VoiceThread.

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Comment on VoiceThread slides using one of five powerful commenting options: microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload.

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Keep a VoiceThread private, share it with specific people, or open it up to the entire world.

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design discussions
no-schedule meetings
professional development
collaborate with clients
sales and marketing

replace text-only discussions
interactive lectures
support UDL principles
no-schedule office hours
professional development

student presentations
conversational practice
professional development
rich assessment
safe and accountable

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Create highly engaging videos in minutes using the power of AI. Creates videos along with captions, voice and music from text that you provide.

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Pictory - Easy Video Creation For Content Marketers

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Pixton is a great tool for having students show their understanding of a topic. There are visual packs related to science, language arts, history, and math. Student responses can include visuals and text, and provide a clear panel progression for explaining processes, stories, or methods for understanding. On the teacher side, there is an easy method to view, grade, and give feedback for student work. There are also integrated resources for inclusion of diverse images of people (race, gender, ability, etc.)

Danielle Schropp

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Linda Eckman Wissler

I used Quizlet in my classroom for years! It's a great resource for students to review material at their own pace using multiple options such as flashcards or games. I also love the Quizlet Live option where the students compete as teams against each other. It is done by random selection-kids are put in groups and shuffled around. I often offered bonus points on their tests for participation and winning.

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Jenna Sorat-The Book to Beginning ID/IDD Resources

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Jenna Sorat-The Book to Beginning ID/IDD Resources

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If you are new to Instructional Design, ID or IDD, check out this book available from the Amazon link included in this section. For more details, check out my team post discussion board.

Thanks, Jenna Sorat

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When you're tasked with creating your very first eLearning course, it can be hard (and downright scary) trying to figure out where to begin. You likely have a million questions running through your head. How do you plan your project and set it up for success? How do you collect learning content from your subject matter experts? Why do you need an eLearning storyboard, and how do you write one? How do you develop a prototype of your eLearning course? And, what the heck is a prototype anyway? When and where should you include interactivity? When should you let your SMEs review your course? And what's a "SME" again? And what do you do when they don't give you feedback?

Trying to get answers to all of these questions can quickly leave you saying to yourself, "I don't think I'm cut out for this eLearning thing!" But, here's some good news: you're not alone! The truth is, most eLearning designers entered fell, stumbled, and dropped into the world of eLearning entirely by accident.

This is where the second edition of The eLearning Designer's Handbook can help! In this book, Tim Slade will show you that the eLearning development process doesn't have to be as complicated as it might seem. If you're new to eLearning, Tim will walk you through the complete eLearning design and development process, providing you practical tips and advice, based on his own experience working as an eLearning designer for over a decade.

With the second edition of The eLearning Designer's Handbook , you'll discover how to...

Plan your eLearning project by conducting a kickoff meeting with your stakeholders.

Conduct a needs analysis and recommend a training solution.

Draft an eLearning project plan and development timeline.

Define the learning objectives and create a blended training solution.

Collect and organize your learning content into a design document.

Create a course outline and draft a storyboard of your eLearning course.

Create a prototype and develop your course with an eLearning authoring tool.

Incorporate interactivity into your eLearning course.

Reduce cognitive load and increase learning retention.

Deliver and measure the effectiveness of your eLearning course.

Conduct a retrospective at the end of your project.

So, what's new in the second edition?

With the second edition of The eLearning Designer's Handbook , Tim Slade went back to the drawing board to rewrite and redesign every single page of the book. Not only does the second edition include a boatload of new content on instructional design best practices, but it also includes even more practical content geared towards new eLearning designers.

With the second edition of The eLearning Designer's Handbook , you'll get...

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The eLearning Designer's Handbook: A Practical Guide to the eLearning Development Process for New eLearning Designers

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The Voice Dream suite of apps provides text to speech and speech to text.  It allows multiple types of documents to be read, it allows the user to type text and hear it read back.  During the reading process, it highlights the word that is currently being read.

It doesn't require an internet connection to function, and the user can select from a large library of languages and accents to those languages.  It allows you to take a picture of a page and have it read out loud to the user.

This tool would be useful to students that struggle with language/reading or have vision issues.

Brian Riggle

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My school in addition to all schools in my district use this Google extension to accommodate our students who need Text-to-Speech. Its a great tool because it reads to students. It allows for pausing, rewinding, highlighting, and a dictionary for explaining words. It highlights the words as it is reading. Students can slow down or speed up as the author is reading. This extension is easy to download directly from the Google Chrome Webstore as an extension. Students click on their extensions tab on their Chromebook and locate it and it will begin reading to them!

Posted by: Sheree Caminita

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Pixton is a web-app that students and teachers can use to create digital comics to tell stories, show learning, incorporate into writing assignments. Pixton can be used in any subject area. There is a subscription to access some premium features. Pixton would best fit under "Other tools" because it fits into multiple categories. For example, it could fit into Action and Expression under student response.

-Samantha McMillan

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Pixton | Multimodal Writing Platform for Grades 4–8

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Pixton is a multimodal writing platform for Grades 4–8 that helps students write and demonstrate understanding using comics, graphic novels, storyboards, and books.

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YuJa Panorama is a program installed on the LMS my employer uses. It provides quite a few accessibility features, including a translator and an accessibility checker.

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Accessible content enables every learner to succeed. YuJa Panorama integrates seamlessly into all major Learning Management System (LMS) products to improve the accessibility of digital media and course content.

Accessible content is now generated automatically

Leverage machine learning and automation to scale accessibility

Get more value from your digital media solutions

Leverage Automation to Drive Inclusive Design

YuJa Panorama helps organizations improve the learning experience by driving inclusivity as a key - and measurable - objective when creating digital course content.

- Our LTI and native API-level integration for all major Learning Management Systems (LMSs) help your instructors ensure they are providing accessible course content to their students. Instructors simply login to their course-site and prepare their course materials.

From here, Panorama seamlessly generates multiple accessible alternatives of the course-material in the background - including HTML, Electronic Braille, EPUB, Audio (Speech-to-Text), High Contrast, and Tagged PDF files.

Access Panorama From Any Web Browser

In today's technological landscape, the ability to review and fix accessibility concerns is imperative. All capabilities are fully supported when accessing Panorama via all major web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge, and Safari.

YuJa makes my job easier because the software is easy to use and it removes 90% of user errors or support requests.

Nick Aballi, Distance Learning Technology Specialist at Indiana State University

Visual Accessibility Gauge Right Next to the File

Providing quality content for students and keeping up with ever-changing accessibility standards remains the primary concerns for instructors. YuJa Panorama makes it easy for Instructors to measure the accessibility of their course content with the Accessibility Gauge. The Accessibility Gauge provides a colored representation of Accessibility according to the following legend:

Red - Severe accessibility Issues

Yellow - Somewhat accessible, but still contains significant issues

Green - Minor or no accessibility issues to correct

Automatically Generate More Accessible Content

Panorama automatically generates accessible versions of all uploaded documents. This enables users to simple click on the Accessible Versions menu and select their preferred format to review. Accessible formats automatically generated by Panorama include:

Review and Report Accessibility Across Your Organization

Instructors and Administrators are provided with a variety of reports to help measure the level of accessibility and track trends over time including:

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NVDA is a screen reader program that allows otherwise visual media to be translated into an audio format. This tool can be useful for those with limited/no vision as well as those with disabilities that make reading difficult. In addition to being a resource for the final learners of a course, it's also an important tool for Instructional Designers and other members of a course development team to ensure that a course is meeting WCAG standards and is comprehensible to anyone who wants to take it.

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NVDA version 2023.3

The NVDA screen reader can be downloaded free of charge by anyone. We do this because we believe everyone, especially the world's poorest blind people deserve access to computers and a way out of poverty. If you have the means, no matter how big or small, please consider making a donation before downloading NVDA. We rely on donations and grants to continue improving NVDA and to ensure it remains compatible with the world's rapidly changing technology.

Please note: NVDA is only available for PCs running Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and later. If you require a version of NVDA that can still run on Windows XP or Vista, please download the much older NVDA 2017.3 for Windows XP instead. NV Access does not however recommend or support running this older version on newer Operating systems.

Donation Options

If you wish to donate, you can make a secure payment by credit card or by PayPal account. Amounts are in Australian dollars (AUD). Australian donations over $2.00 are tax-deductible.

NVDA Productivity Bundle

While downloading NVDA, take your skills to the next level with the "NVDA Productivity Bundle". We've packaged all our popular training modules AND telephone support into one convenient package - and at a discount!

Interested in Audio or Braille training? They're also available in The NV Access Shop.

Learn more

NVDA Community Resources

NVDA has a vibrant user community around it. The following are compiled by NV Access and the community and provided as a resource to users. They are not officially endorsed by NV Access. For more links to community supported resources including popular NVDA email lists, please see the "Email support" heading below.

Need support with your download?

Free user guide

You can access the User Guide at any time under "Help" in the NVDA menu. Press either INSERT and the "N" key, or CAPS LOCK and the "N" key to open the NVDA menu. Alternatively, click on the NVDA icon in the task bar.
View user Guide

Training

Start with "Basic Training for NVDA", available in electronic text, human-read audio or Braille. Move on to our Microsoft Office with NVDA modules, or bundle everything along with telephone support in the "NVDA Productivity Bundle". Suitable for new or existing users wishing to improve proficiency.
Explore Training Modules

Email Support

There are a number of community-run email lists where NVDA users can answer each other's questions. There are lists for various locations and languages available.
Find Out More

NVDA Support

Purchase support for NVDA, and get the help you need when you need it via the phone or your preferred online option (eg Google meet, Skype or Zoom). Our experts can answer questions, walk you through completing a task or even resolve an issue for you by remotely accessing your computer.
Find Out More

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My work group has used Teams for the past few years and there are several ways it helps everyone on the team stay engaged.

Team membership is flexible, so we can create a separate team for each learning group or work group, and those team members can communicate on zoom-like calls or classes, share and store documents, chat, talk, and collaborate on projects.

Teams creates a safe space for learners and instructors to share information, ask questions, provide feedback, and generally stay connected with one another, and it’s all in one convenient place.

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I liked the Immersive reader for Onenote and wondered if there was a Google alternative. Helperbird has a nice language reader option.

Jenn Wieczorek

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This tool is amazing for building fun, interactive quizzes. It can be used in team building as well as teaching and is accessible to participants in hybrid courses. It's a widely recognized game platform that grabs learners' attention and works as an excellent knowledge check!

~Aaron Mickey

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I use Kahoot for assignments and academic skills workshop warmers. I try to connect the warmers with the workshop content as much as possible, like questions related to assignment rubrics or questions that activate prior knowledge on academic writing skills they may be familiar with, like writing coherence or synthesis. Kahoot quizzes are an easy way to engage students and let them know what to expect in the workshop. The competitive aspect adds a little bit of excitement to workshops focused on academic skills.

-Nathaneil Ward

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This would be an amazing tool to use when instructing English language learners so that they will be able to access and understand course materials.

-Tia Pierce

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WebAim is an excellent tool that can be used to check color contrast and text size so courses can be built with accessibility in mind.

Chad Lord

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Graphical Objects and User Interface Components

Web accessibility testing can be difficult! The experts at WebAIM can audit your web site and provide a detailed report to help you remediate accessibility and WCAG compliance issues.

Learn more about WebAIM Evaluation Services

Explanation

Enter a foreground and background color in RGB hexadecimal format (e.g., #FD3 or #F7DA39) or choose a color using the color picker. The Lightness slider can be used to adjust the selected color.

WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text. WCAG 2.1 requires a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 for graphics and user interface components (such as form input borders). WCAG Level AAA requires a contrast ratio of at least 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text.

Large text is defined as 14 point (typically 18.66px) and bold or larger, or 18 point (typically 24px) or larger.

Hint: Colorzilla is an excellent tool for extracting the color value from any page element. Additionally, WAVE can analyze contrast ratios for all page text elements at once.

Use our link contrast checker to evaluate links that are identified using color alone.

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I noticed this resource already posted under engagement but I thought I would add it under comprehension as well, as learners can get formative assessment feedback on their understanding as they move through the video lesson!

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Instructors can create interactive slide decks. Students will participate in class discussions by posting their responses to questions in real time. They will also get feedback on quizzes they take in real time.

(Chessa Mitchell)

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Pear Deck is on a mission to help teachers create powerful learning moments for every student, every day - using the tools you already know and love.

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Heather Copeman:

ScreenPal is a screen recording tool that can record your screen and/or webcam. You can add voiceover narration and music to your videos. There are many useful features like AI speech to text, creating animated GIFs, alternative backgrounds, and drawing while recording.

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Easily record your screen with the best free screen recorder for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Chromebook .

Capture any area of your screen, include microphone audio, and add and resize video from your webcam. No account required and no watermark added.

Our free screen recorder gives you everything you need to start creating your own stunning, engaging screen and webcam videos. Free features include:

Our full video creation suite offers advanced screen recording, seamless video editing, unlimited hosting, robust content management, video analytics, and more.

Connect your recordings with our full editor

Accomplish more with your screen recording when you seamlessly connect with our full video editor. Create engaging, professional-quality videos with text, animations, overlays, computer audio, and transitions. Remove silences, cut and crop, and blur information. Add stock video, images, music, and sound effects.

You can easily record your screen for free with ScreenPal's screen recorder! Launch the free screen recorder directly from our website. Choose to record your screen, webcam, or both. You can record your full screen or easily adjust the size of the recording frame.

With ScreenPal, you can record your screen on Mac, Windows, Chromebook, Android, and iOS (iPhone and iPad) devices.

Check out " The ultimate guide on how to screen record " to get started.

Yes, ScreenPal's screen recorder is virus free and 100% safe to download and use, so you can create all your screen recordings with confidence and peace of mind. ScreenPal's free online hosting account is also 100% safe and secure, as well as ad free and spam free. You can easily set visibility, password, and privacy settings to control who can see your videos.

No, ScreenPal's screen recorder does not place watermarks on any recordings, whether you have the free screen recorder or a paid plan, in order to provide the highest quality experience for you and your audience.

Yes, once you download ScreenPal's screen recorder from our website, you are able to use it offline to record your screen and webcam for free.

Of course, if you would like to create screen recordings of website content, then you would still need an active internet connection to navigate websites online during your screen recording.

No, you do not need to sign up or create an account to use ScreenPal's free screen recorder. You can download and launch our free screen recorder directly from the screen recorder website page to start recording your screen right away.

Our screen recorder is free to use forever, without needing to set up an account or enter credit card information.

Yes, you can record both your screen and webcam with ScreenPal. You can choose your webcam source and position your webcam wherever you want over your screen for a picture-in-picture effect as you record. You can choose a present screen recording size or click and drag the corners of the screen recorder frame to record any custom area of your screen with your webcam.

Yes, you can easily use licensed, royalty-free stock content from our stock library with your screen recording. Add stock music & sound effects after recording, available to both free and paid plans. Use millions of stock images & videos, an expanded stock music selection, and premium Shutterstock content with .

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ScreenPal's screen recorder is intuitive, fast, and free. Screen recording has never been easier! Capture any area of your screen. Add narration and webcam.

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"LUDIA is an AI chatbot designed to support the implementation of UDL"

Run your ideas through Ludia an get feedback on how to remove barriers!

-Duvessa Mac Carvill

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LUDIA was created as a new kind of entry point and scaffold for developing a Universal Design for Learning mindset, intentionally designing to reduce learning barriers, and discovering the power of Artificial Intelligence.

LUDIA does not just give strategies; they provide context specific and culturally relevant options for instructional design that take all three principles of UDL into account. LUDIA gives guidance about barriers that have not been considered and minimizes threats to unlearning that can lead to shifts in mindsets.

Free, with no paywalls

Understands and responds in multiple languages

Assists everyone; from novices to advanced UDL practitioners

Accessible through touch or voice typing

No prompting skills are needed

Without limits!

One of the first chat bots that has actually addressed some cultural biases that we've been concerned about in other use cases! Well done!
- Dr. Jody Britten

Director of Learning Technology at Team4Tech
LUDIA makes UDL more accessible and manageable for teachers. LUDIA requires almost no training or investment, and teachers can instantly obtain targeted, UDL-aligned suggestions for strategies to improve learning for ALL of their students.
- Timothy Thomas

Director of the Munich International School
LUDIA is more than a great tool to empower one's teaching; LUDIA has the potential to put UDL power in the hands of families, community members, and educators to create an inclusive learning environment where possibilities thrive, and students excel.

- Dr. Ron B. Rogers

Director of the UDL Center at OCALI

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Scribe - A step by step guide builder (posted by Annette Mills)

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Scribe has been a tool that I have used to present information in another way! In addition to video and audio directions, Scribe helps to instantly create a step-by-step guide without you having to think about your actions to complete a task. I always find that I perform some editing to the automatic directions (which are minimal) to provide more clarity in the steps. It is another way to present information! I have thought about how this tool can be used beyond step by step guides and possibly for demonstrating how to complete problems as well.

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Scribe automatically generates visual how-to guides and gets them to your team when they need them most. Save time, stay focused, help others.

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Scribe's been a real game-changer for me, no more having to stop and take screenshots while I'm working. The best part? It's all automatic. No more manual documentation for me - that's a huge win in my book.

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Scribe | Create Step-by-Step Guides - Fast.

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Scribe documents your processes for you. Build visual guides with text, links and screenshots instantly.

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This is a great tool for text to speech that includes AI! Some of the voices sound very realistic. -Kacey Parks

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Free Text to Speech Online with Realistic AI Voices

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Convert text into ultra-realistic audio. Have any text read aloud with AI Voices. AI text reader for pdfs, books, documents, and webpages.

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Submitted by: Amanda James-Martin

H5P.org is a project that focuses on facilitating the sharing of a large variety of HTML-based content, that can then be uploaded to most LMS systems.

They have an Examples and Downloads section that I find most helpful because it has a wide variety of templates with different types of learning tools and interactions that can be built into an eLearning.

I use it to inspire ideas of how to deliver my content, even though I usually build them in a separate tool that works better with my LMS. It's nice to have prebuilt examples to get ideas on how the different content types can be used.

There's also some really great forums on the site with lots of other content creators!

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H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.

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Figjam is a virtual whiteboard designed for collaborative brainstorming and project building. It is reminiscent of Jamboard, which is sadly being phased out. I enjoyed Jamboard while teaching remotely during the pandemic, as it was a great tool for participation and made classes feel a little less untethered. Being able to post notes, images, links and see additions and changes in real time gives a sense of a team brainstorming session one would have had in person in the not-too-distant past.

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A visual collaborative whiteboard where teams can diagram, brainstorm, and organize ideas together.

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WCAG Quick Reference Site (posted by Michael Allen)

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WCAG Quick Reference Site (posted by Michael Allen)

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A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 requirements (success criteria) and techniques.

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When the keyboard focus indicator is visible, an area of the focus indicator meets all the following:

is at least as large as the area of a 2 CSS pixel thick perimeter of the unfocused component or sub-component, and

has a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 between the same pixels in the focused and unfocused states.

Exceptions:

Note 1: What is perceived as the user interface component or sub-component (to determine enclosure or size) depends on its visual presentation. The visual presentation includes the component's visible content, border, and component-specific background. It does not include shadow and glow effects outside the component's content, background, or border.

Note 2: Examples of sub-components that may receive a focus indicator are menu items in an opened drop-down menu, or focusable cells in a grid.

Note 3: Contrast calculations can be based on colors defined within the technology (such as HTML, CSS and SVG). Pixels modified by user agent resolution enhancements and anti-aliasing can be ignored.

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When the keyboard focus indicator is visible, an area of the focus indicator meets all the following: is at least as large as the area of a 2 CSS pixel thick perimeter of the unfocused component or sub-component, and has a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 between the same pixels in the focused and unfocused states.

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Corgi provides learners with "digital graphic organizers for building higher-order thinking skills." Developing executive function skills in ALL our learners is essential to paving the road for equity and inclusion in our courses. Though Corgi is designed for middle and high school students, this kind of tool could be used with learners across the lifespan to support learners "to develop higher-order reasoning skills and engage in challenging ways of thinking and doing."

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Corgi takes what's already great about graphic organizers and infuses the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to make them even more flexible and accessible.

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VoiceThread's multimedia capabilities, interactive commenting options, and sharing abilities make it a valuable tool for various educational and professional contexts. It allows for engaging presentations, interactive discussions, and collaborative learning experiences online. Additionally, VoiceThread can facilitate real-time discussions (synchronous) or allow viewers to leave comments at their own pace (asynchronous). In addition to the collaborative elements of the tool, it also offers transcript generation, question prompts, and searchable content. Not only is this a valuable tool for students to employ in their own assignments, but it’s also an engaging resource for educators in the classroom to entice engagement and build community.

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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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Gimkit makes learning fun and engaging! There are a variety of game modes, question banks, rewards for answering correct, and helps classrooms build a community for learning. Gimkit brings on competition and uses gamification to keep students motivated.

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Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. Get started for free!

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Students can use Flipgrid as a self-reflection tool. Students record videos for each learning goal, after time, they can look back on their videos and measure their growth.

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PowerPoint, combined with ClipChamp,  and CloudConvert.

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PowerPoint, combined with ClipChamp,  and CloudConvert.

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I need to stick with the Microsoft suite. I used Clipchamp for my text to speech and then converted the MP4 to an MP3 using Cloudconvert. I could then add this as audio to my PowerPoint slide.

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This is a free web accessibility checker that I've been experimenting with for content created on a variety of online platforms. It does take some getting used to (it can be hard to interpret your results if you don't have a lot of experience with accessibility or with web coding) but it's a good tool to have in the pocket.

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WAVE ® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.

WAVE Browser Extensions

You can use the online WAVE tool by entering a web page address (URL) in the field above. WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser extensions are available for testing accessibility directly within your web browser - handy for checking password protected, locally stored, or highly dynamic pages.

WAVE API and Testing Engine

The WAVE subscription API and Stand-alone WAVE API and Testing Engine are powerful tools for easily collecting accessibility test data on many pages. The stand-alone API and Testing Engine can be integrated into your infrastructure for testing intranet, non-public, and secure pages, including in continuous integration processes.

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Your Accessibility IMpact (AIM) assessment report provides detailed WAVE test data, your site's AIM score (a measure of end user impact compared to web pages generally and as determined by human testers), and expert manual test results to give you insights into the accessibility of your web site for users with disabilities.

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WAVE ® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content.

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I have downloaded Otter.Ai to my iPhone because I wanted to try and record instructions or important meetings at work so that I don't forget what it was said. Some tips and tricks to use this app that I find very good, is that you can highlight and bookmark parts of the text that are important to you. Also, it provides an AI chat (desktop version) and a summary of the recording. It is really good, I recommend it for people who need to record lessons or conversations and review it later.

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I would like to expand on Flipgrid. This is a great collaborative tool in which learners can share their ideas recording themselves. Teachers can use it with students in different ways, while ensuring that students feel comfortable sharing their opinions. I personally like to encourage students to explore the different features the app offers such as fun filters and emojis. Sometimes students feel shy or insecure to share their ideas on videos, and this can add up some anxiety that can be tackle teaching students how to use these features. For example,I have had students use Flipgrid in my Spanish as Second Language class, at the beginning of a course to gain confidence and later they feel comfortable to show their faces and even share longer interactions in a foreign language. I can also model the exercise, which help them understand better their assignments. Students can also share comments and like their peers’ posts which is great to build a community in the classroom. This tool can definitely provide options for expression and communication.

Jhonatan Carmona
Designing Effective eLearning class

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Color picker tool with colorblind accessibility, print/photocopy friendly, and is useful for making contrasting colors to be used to designing statistical data and for infographics.

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Number of data classes:

Nature of your data:

sequential diverging qualitative

Pick a color scheme:

Only show:

colorblind safe
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Context:

roads
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Background:

solid color
terrain

color transparency

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how to use | updates | downloads | credits

color advice for cartography

EXPORT

Export your selected color scheme:

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Adobe

Download an Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) file of this scheme.

GIMP and Inkscape

GIMP color palette for this scheme.

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Colors for this scheme as a JS array

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This is a great brainstorming tool. You can use AnswerGarden for short responses, brainstorming sessions, and feedback. It is also a fun and interesting tool to use for the learners to set learning objectives/ expectations as a group. It promotes interaction among learners and helps you see common keywords through a visual representation of all responses. I often use AnswerGarden during live online classes for immediate brief feedback, but it can also be integrated to Learning Management Systems for learners to interact asynchronously.

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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real time audience participation and classroom feedback.

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Piktochart is a great tool to make infographics for topics within the class. Students can also use it similarly to Canva to create ideas and share learning in class.

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For ELL, and those who need support with language, Quizlet allows for the creation of vocabulary enhancement through games and flashcards. It supports the ELL studnets understanding of the language but also allows those with more advanced language backgrounds to build decks to support their peers and themselves as you go through a literary element of theme. It is also available on a phone app and my studnets use it as they travel to and from school.

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This is a new tool for me I but I can see using it to help create a vocabluary list for characterization. It would be a creation to stroies told or written and would allow studnets to bring the protagonist (or antagonist) to life. What a brilliant tool. Thanks for sharing.

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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You can share annotated PDFs with other users through Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Classroom or your Learning Management Systems - just ensure that the user you are sharing with has OrbitNote installed as well, in order to see the annotations.

For sharing with users that don't have OrbitNote, you can use the Download button and select the option to include your annotations. This will include all annotations, drawings, text, highlights, signatures and images in a new copy of the PDF.

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OrbitNote - PDF editor and tools to create accessible and collaborative documents

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OrbitNote will super charge your workflow by allowing you to create accessible, dynamic and collaborative PDFs and digital documents. Perfect for schools and the workplace.

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Canva is an incredibly user-friendly tool that can be used to design infographics, quick reference guides, FAQs, badges, or any other visual content. I love to use their templates so additional documents or visuals can remain consistent! Personally, I do the upgraded subscription to get additional access to their different templates, fonts, and images.

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. . . what we all need, a full tool box . . . (Chris Sequeira)

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Teaching Resources | Center for Teaching Innovation (cornell.edu)

Though this resource page is intended for creating college level classes, as an ID in the corporate world I found the tools in the menu on the right side of the page very helpful in creating engaging material.

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This is a third party service that provides captioning for different types of media. They can also provide captioning in other languages.

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Captions, subtitles and translations for live and pre-recorded content using industry leading AI. Ideal for virtual and hybrid events, meetings, broadcast, and OTT.

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Tango creates software user guides automatically. Saves so much time! When training on software, it is critical to show images as well as include instructive text. This tool can be great for supplemental job aides or study guides to go along with an eLearning course.

--Kathleen Donahue

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Microsoft Teams provides a comprehensive platform for synchronous and asynchronous learning, catering to different UDL principles by promoting engagement, providing opportunities for student responses, offering structured information display, and supporting self-reflection. Its integration with Microsoft 365 tools enhances productivity and accessibility, making it a valuable tool in adult learning courses.

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You can turn this on to let your viewers see real-time transcriptions of what you are saying as you present in PowerPoint

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Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e. if you want it to be translated). You can select the specific microphone you want to be used (if there is more than one microphone connected to your device), the position where the subtitles appear on the screen (bottom or top, and overlaid or separate from slide), and other display options.

1. On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select Subtitle Settings. Or, you can adjust the settings without leaving your presentation through the context menu, Slide Show or Presenter View menus > Subtitle Settings > More Settings.

2. Use Spoken Language to see the voice languages that PowerPoint can recognize, and select the one you want. This is the language that you will be speaking while presenting. (By default, this will be set to the language corresponding to your Office editing language.)

3. In the Subtitle Settings menu, set the desired position of the captions or subtitles. They can appear over the top or bottom margin of the slide (overlaid), or they can appear above the top or below the bottom of the slide (docked). The default setting is Below Slide.

4. More appearance settings are available by clicking Subtitle Settings > More Settings (Windows).

You can change the color, size, transparency, and font style of the subtitles. You can change the background to improve contrast and make text easier to read.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Toggle Subtitles button from Slide Show View or Presenter View, on the toolbar below the main slide:

In Slide Show View:

In Presenter View:

You can also toggle subtitles from the right-click menu, or with the shortcut key J.

To have subtitles always start up when a Slide Show presentation starts, from the ribbon you can navigate to Slide Show > Always Use Subtitles to turn this feature on for all presentations. (By default, it's off.) Then, in Slide Show and Presenter View, a live transcription of your words will appear on-screen.

Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e. if you want it to be translated). You can select the specific microphone you want to be used (if there is more than one microphone connected to your device), the position where the subtitles appear on the screen (bottom or top, and overlaid or separate from slide), and other display options.

1. On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select Subtitle Settings.

2. In the Subtitle Settings menu, set the desired position of the captions or subtitles. They can appear over the top or bottom margin of the slide (overlaid), or they can appear above the top or below the bottom of the slide (docked). The default setting is Below Slide.

3. More appearance settings are available by clicking Subtitle Settings > System Caption Preferences.

You can change the color, size, transparency, and font style of the subtitles. You can change the background to improve contrast and make text easier to read.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Toggle Subtitles button from Slide Show View or Presenter View, on the toolbar below the main slide:

In Slide Show View:

In Presenter View:

Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e., if you want it to be translated). You can also select whether subtitles appear at the top or bottom of the screen.

Simplified Ribbon:

Classic Ribbon:

(Simplifed Ribbon) On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select the drop-down arrow next to Always Use Subtitles to open the menu of options.

(Classic Ribbon) On the View ribbon tab, select Use Subtitles. Then click Subtitle Settings to open the menu of options.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

To have subtitles always start up when a Slide Show is presented, select View > Always Use Subtitles.

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Use Subtitles button in Slide Show, on the toolbar below the main slide:

On/Off keyboard shortcut: J

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Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint

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Let PowerPoint display your spoken words on-screen as you present with live captions, and even translate your words into another language with live subtitles.

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Storyline 360 is an eLearning content authoring tool that offers many ways to create accessible courses, from closed captioning, zoom options, alternative text, transcripts, audio voiceovers, and more. Storyline provides a very helpful and useful article on instructional design strategies for creating accessible courses that I have attached here. -Kathleen Donahue

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In e-learning, accessibility ensures that your content is designed for all learners, regardless of their abilities. Creating an accessible course isn't just something you must do to meet standards, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508. When you enhance the accessibility of your content, everyone benefits.

This article teaches you specific ways to help learners interact fully with your Storyline 3 courses.

Design Your Course with Accessibility in Mind

You want all learners, including those with visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities, to understand, navigate, and interact with your course. Make learners immediately comfortable with the layout and design by providing accessibility instructions at the beginning of your course.

Here are some best practices to lean into as you design your course.

Use a consistent design. A consistent design makes a website easier to navigate and understand. Format text styles and slide masters to look the way you want, then reuse them throughout your course.

Eliminate distractions. Busy designs can cause people with cognitive disabilities to miss important information. You'll want to avoid clutter, keep animated objects to a minimum, and use white space to improve legibility and readability.

Use plain language. Straightforward and clear language appropriate for your content helps your audience read and understand the information.

Use accessible fonts. Format your design to increase the readability by using plain and straight fonts, such as Sans serif fonts. Don't use all-caps formatting since it's challenging to read.

Use descriptive links. Give learners hyperlinks with the proper context of where clicking the link will take them. For example, "click here" doesn't tell learners what the link does. Hyperlink a specific phrase instead: "read our policy statement."

Give learners clear feedback. Learners must get confirmation when they complete an action, and error messages should provide clear direction.

Provide text-based alternatives. Use text to communicate important details. If you use images or animations to provide essential context, offer text-based alternatives for learners with visual impairments. For example, use alternative (alt) text to describe images. Or, add an optional link to an animated slide that opens a static, text-based layer with the same information for learners using screen readers.

Don't use flashing content. In the case of photosensitive epilepsy, flashing can trigger seizures. Animations, GIFs, and videos shouldn't flash, blink, or flicker more than three times per second.

Make Content Accessible to Screen Readers & Keyboards

Learners with visual impairments often use screen readers to navigate e-learning courses. Storyline 3 supports JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack screen readers with our supported browsers. Other learners may rely solely on keyboards or keyboard alternatives to navigate online content.

Visual impairments cover a broad spectrum, including low vision, color blindness, and total blindness. It also includes learners who find it difficult to read on-screen text due to learning disabilities or because the course language is a second language for them. Fortunately, there are several ways to make your visual content accessible, as described below.

Customize the Focus Order to Provide Meaningful Context

The focus order you define for each slide in Storyline 3 controls the reading order for screen readers and the tab order for interactive elements, such as buttons, hotspots, and data-entry fields. Customize the focus order for each slide to make the most sense.

Identify the Course Language

Storyline 3 adds a language code for screen readers to your published story.html file based on the language you select for your text labels. You can easily switch to another language or a different set of custom text labels.

Customize the Text Labels

Screen readers use text labels to describe buttons, messages, screen reader instructions, and other player controls. Here's everything you need to know about working with text labels in Storyline 3.

Allow Learners to Skip Player Navigation Elements

Let learners skip repetitive navigation throughout your course. When keyboard-only users and screen reader users tab past the last object on a slide, they have an option to go back to the top of the slide, bypassing all the player controls. They can press the spacebar or Enter key to activate the skip navigation shortcut and return to the top of the slide. Or, they can press the Tab key to proceed to the player controls.

Tip: The skip navigation shortcut is enabled by default, so learners don't have to navigate through all the player features to hear the slide content again. If you need to turn it off, you can disable the skip navigation shortcut.

Choose Visible Focus Indicator Colors

When learners navigate using a keyboard, an outline-called a focus indicator-highlights the currently selected object. Without a focus indicator, these learners won't know where they are on the page-so it's essential.

In Storyline 3, you can change the focus indicator color to complement your course design.

Make Images Accessible

Add Alternative Text

Non-text content needs alternative text (alt text) to describe its meaning to learners using assistive technologies, such as screen readers. The good news is it's easy to add alt text in Storyline 3.

You only need to add alt text to objects that convey meaning or context to the learner. Hide purely decorative images and shapes from accessibility tools when they don't contribute to the purpose of the content. Otherwise, screen reader users will be fatigued by unnecessary announcements.

Check out these tips for writing good alt text (excerpted from page 8 of our accessibility e-book):

Convey the same content and information presented by the object or image-no need to include any on-screen text.

Be concise without skimping on relevant information.

Don't include "image of" and "graphic of" and just provide the information needed.

Don't use abbreviations and excessive punctuation such as ***, which screen readers will annoyingly read as "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk."

Increase the Player Font Size

As the course author, you have complete control over the size of slide text, but what about player elements, such as buttons, sidebar tabs, and pop-up messages? It's easy to set the font size from any percentage between 75% and 200% in your player settings.

Make Audio and Video Content Accessible

Don't Autoplay

People using screen readers navigate by listening, so don't allow audio or video content to start playing automatically. Let your learners control playback. Here's how to adjust video properties.

Add Closed Captions

Captions are a text version of the audio needed to understand the content. Import closed captions or create closed captions right in Storyline 3 with the built-in editor. It's easy to do and produces big dividends.

Plus, closed captioning isn't just for learners with hearing impairments. If your course is a second language for learners, captions might help them fully understand the content. And learners in noisy surroundings will appreciate captions too.

Provide a Transcript

Transcripts are audio converted to written text. They are different from closed captions, which are time-coded frames. Consider adding a transcript via the player notes panel for each slide or a downloadable attachment for the entire course. Be sure to include necessary details in the written transcript conveyed visually in images and videos so learners have all the information.

Make Text Accessible

Use a Contrast Ratio of 4.5:1

Some learners have low vision rather than total blindness. To make your course accessible for learners with low vision, use on-screen text with a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 or higher against the background color.

If you overlay text on a background image, reduce the brightness and contrast of the image to make the text easier to read. Or, place a semi-transparent shape between the image and the text to increase the contrast ratio.

To quickly determine the contrast ratio, try this web-based contrast checker or download this contrast checker tool.

Offer an Audio Alternative for On-Screen Text

Some learners may be able to see your course but prefer to listen rather than read. They might have learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, might not be strong readers, or might be in a busy environment where they can't focus on the screen. Or perhaps your course language is a second language for them. Consider offering an audio version of text-based slides for these learners. For example, you could play optional narration when learners click a speaker icon or press a keyboard shortcut.

Use Accessible Text and Text Styles

The accessible text in Storyline 3 lets learners personalize the size and style of text by using custom stylesheets or browser extensions, making it more readable and accessible than ever.

Accessible text styles in Storyline 3 create more design consistency and help screen readers. That's because text styles share the hierarchy of information with screen readers so they can identify and announce headings, hyperlinks, quotes, and paragraphs.

Another vital thing to consider is text size. After all, if your copy is too small, learners might have trouble reading it.

Enable Accessibility Controls

Empower learners to personalize their experience by turning on the accessibility controls in the course player. These controls allow learners to change the zoom mode, turn accessible text on or off, and toggle keyboard shortcuts.

Make Interactive Content Accessible

Creating interactive content keeps your learners engaged. The two most common interactive elements are navigation features and quizzes. In addition, Storyline 3 has many interactive objects, such as buttons and data-entry fields, for you to create interactive slides.

Don't Rely on Color Alone to Convey Meaning

If you use color to provide important context or meaning, offer text, audio, or image equivalents for learners with color blindness. For example, if you use green to indicate a correct response and red to indicate an incorrect response, include audio or on-screen text to convey the same information for learners who can't distinguish between green and red.

Similarly, don't rely on color alone to identify hyperlinks. For example, underline text with a link, and provide instructions for images with links, so learners know they're interactive.

Ideally, it's best to work with someone who has color blindness so you can ensure the best possible experience. Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator if that's not an option. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you what people with common color vision impairments will see in real-time.

Don't Rely on Hover States Alone to Display Details

While hover states (i.e., rollover effects that require a mouse) are great for conveying interactivity, don't rely on them to display important information. Consider providing a keyboard-accessible alternative if you use hover states to display text or images. For example, it's OK to change the color of a button when a mouse hovers over it to indicate that it's a clickable object. Still, you wouldn't want to display feedback text in the hover state without providing another way to access the information. One alternative for this example would be a keyboard shortcut that plays an audio version of the feedback for those not using a mouse.

Don't Set Time Limits

Timers can prohibit the learner's ability to use the accessible alternatives you've added or may create a focus obstacle. Avoid quiz timers and refrain from using triggers to create timed interactions when possible.

Offer Tips About Quiz Questions

When a quiz question accepts more than one answer choice, include directions for screen reader users. Sample tips include: Multiple answers are possible, Select all that apply, and Fill in the blank.

Provide Alternatives for Drag-and-Drop Interactions

Drag-and-drop interactions require a mouse for navigation, making them difficult or impossible to use for learners with mobility impairments. If you add them to your course, provide text-based or keyboard-controlled alternatives. For example, you might use a keyboard-accessible interaction, such as a matching question or a slider interaction. You could also give learners a detailed text description of the information they need to know from the interaction.

Get Help When You Need It

Want to go deeper? Check out our Storyline 3 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® (VPAT®) and our free e-book on designing accessible e-learning.

Also, visit https://webaim.org for comprehensive web accessibility solutions, including training, tools, and community support.

And when you need help, just post a question at E-Learning Heroes, the largest, most engaged e-learning community in the world. There are over 1,000,000 members eager to help. Chances are, someone has already worked through a problem you're experiencing and will have the wisdom to share.

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Dropbox is especially helpful for designing curriculum where multiple creators are involved. You may have graphic artists, voiceover talent, and videographers creating content, and especially if these individuals are independent contractors, it's helpful to have a shared database where content can be shared in real time. Many files are extremely large and cannot be emailed. -Kathleen Donahue

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Like many of us, I'm tied deeply to Microsoft products by the will of my organization's IT department. It can be hard for people like to me get approval for software that isn't part of the "standard" package. This tool, Microsoft Mind Maps Pro, is likely to be approved for internal use.  For more, see this YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mind+maps+pro+microsoft+

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                                                        Create beautiful mind maps in seconds with Mind Maps Pro.

Mind Maps Pro has earned hundreds of 5-star reviews for its usability, rich feature set, and customer support.

Organize your idea with pictures, shapes, colors, flags, and more. Use the auto-layout feature and make the perfect mind map, org chart, or family tree.

Annotate and highlight your mind map with your pen, then export it to PDF or PNG for easy sharing. Or, sync your work to OneDrive for access on all your devices.

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Howspace is a digital collaboration platform designed to facilitate online learning, teamwork, , and problem-solving processes. It provides a virtual space for participants to engage in discussions, share ideas, and collaborate on projects or tasks.  It has discussion boards, document sharing,  polls and surveys,  live events, analytics and reporting.

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Howspace features

Shape the future of work by unlocking and leveraging collective brainpower with AI

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Learn

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Collaborate

Allow everyone to participate and work together in the same space, guided by a shared purpose.

Create an environment for powerful dialogue, brainstorming, and commenting using the versatile, interactive Super Chat.

Invite up to 200 participants to join live video meetings directly within your workspace.

Maintain participant engagement through targeted email invitations.

Build a workspace that supports both synchronous and asynchronous work.

Lead Change

Create an environment of proactive and continuous change where everyone can participate.

Guide all stakeholders through the early stages of change with pre-work inside the workspace.

Facilitate dialogue between a limitless amount of participants, regardless of time and location, with Super Chat.

Gather discussions, ideas, and solutions in one easy-to-find place.

View detailed activity data for workspace features and re-engage inactive participants with targeted emails.

Learn

Support continuous learning at every stage with reflective practices that center collaboration and teamwork.

Create a noiseless space by using Path mode and bring the participant's focus to one section at a time.

Use Super Chat settings to choose when participants can see each other's comments and/or encourage them to review and comment on others' responses.

Build customized Assignments and Exams to support learning.

Track and evaluate the progress of each individual with Activity Collection and Evaluation.

Go beyond ordinary workflows

Templates

Howspace Templates allow you to jumpstart your workspace creation process with high quality and inspiring templates built by other Howspace users coming from a variety of use cases!

Build your own, or discover your next big idea by browsing the curated Template Gallery, filled with best practices and inspirational content.

Integrations

Working with other tools? No problem! You can embed your Google Sheets, Miro whiteboards, Calendly schedules, and more directly into your workspace.

Howspace has also a Partner API, which allows automated workspace creation, user management, and much more.

Read more about our two most popular integrations:

Ecosystem & roadmap

Howspace is co-created with you.

Visit the new Howspace Ecosystem to:

Explore our product roadmap and submit your own ideas.

Ask the community for support and advice and share your own experiences with other community members.

Find the perfect partner to help you grow with Howspace.

See Howspace in action

Facilitate the processes that make sense for you and your team, no matter who's online or in the office

Howspace is used by

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Customer stories

Learning

The new era of education: how Nyenrode University created an online learning environment

Howspace helped Nyenrode University build a foundation for blended classes to make education more effective and enabled them to create an engaging online learning environment.

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Organizational Development

How the transition to remote work transformed development initiatives in Finland's Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Finance Finland needed a platform to help them transition from in-person work to a hybrid model. Howspace made the ministry's collaboration more equal and enabled everyone's voice to be heard.

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Workshops & Events

UN Women gives diverse voices a seat at the table through an AI-powered online platform

UN Women brought diverse voices to the table through the Generation Equality Forum Public Conversation platform-held on Howspace.

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What our customers say

"Now I know what I want to do when I grow up! A world-class strategic planning facilitator, using real-time artificial intelligence in online workshops. This is not science fiction; this is already possible - I saw it in Howspace."

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CEO, Grape People Finland

"Howspace is the ultimate digital enablement of great facilitation. You can hold meaningful dialogue at a scale that was never possible. Howspace is how I keep continuity without the pain of other tools where the conversation gets lost and people feel like their contributions to the dialogue don't matter. In Howspace, we are able to keep things alive even when virtual and asynchronous!"

Michael Leckie
Founding partner, LLC, Silverback partners

"Howspace creates an environment that feels safe, as the platform can be adjusted to the customer's brand. This inspires people to share thoughts and ideas and facilitate change mutually."

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Senior Manager, Implement Consulting Group

Step into the collaborative future with your team

Everyone has a role in creating impact.
Get ready to drive collaborative impact with your team.

Sign up for Howspace for free and access your first workspace immediately. If you need a little more inspiration, you can visit our Templates Gallery and borrow best practices from other Howspace users!

Want a more personalized onboarding experience or product demo? Contact us and we'll be happy to help.

A third-party expert organization evaluated the accessibility of Howspace workspaces in October 2020. Both technical solutions and all the content added in the workspace have been taken into account. Have a look at the full evaluation.

Howspace currently supports 9 operating languages: English, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, French, Danish, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), and Spanish. Our AI features support several additional languages, and you can find the most up-to-date list of those here.

Absolutely, we are always up to date with all applicable laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Howspace is also ISO 27001:2013 Certified, this covers all business processes of the company in development, provision, and management of the Howspace online collaboration platform.

All our hosting providers are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 compliant, the globally recognized information security standards for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).

We value your security and store all Howspace workspaces in secure data centers on dedicated servers. For more details, check out our privacy policy and security overview.

Howspace is built for facilitator-led collaboration and processes that both inspire change in daily work and encourage long-term shifts in thinking about how we work. It's all about centering dialogue and collaboration.

Many of our customers use Howspace side-by-side with productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack to increase impact and participation and give a voice to everyone. Check out our Microsoft Teams integration to see how you can bring Howspace directly into your Teams environment!

Absolutely! All colors, logos, and backgrounds in Howspace are easily adjustable without any coding, which makes internal branding just another part of the process, no additional fuss necessary. Additionally, our templates are also fully customizable to fit your brand's visuals.

Howspace administrators get access to an admin interface with stats on user activity, participation rates, and more. These analytics can also be downloaded for use outside of the workspace environment. We've also created widgets such as Activity Collector and Exams to facilitate progress tracking when it comes to completing certain tasks or modules-this is particularly effective for facilitators of training and learning programs!

Learning

Howspace helped Nyenrode University build a foundation for blended classes to make education more effective and enabled them to create an engaging online learning environment.

View the story

Organizational Development

Ministry of Finance Finland needed a platform to help them transition from in-person work to a hybrid model. Howspace made the ministry's collaboration more equal and enabled everyone's voice to be heard.

View the story

Workshops & Events

UN Women brought diverse voices to the table through the Generation Equality Forum Public Conversation platform-held on Howspace.

View the story

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The Self-Assessment tool from learningdesigned.com looks like an indispensable resource for online learners and instruction. Particularly in goal-setting, progress checks, and determine an area of focus;set and developing an action plan. -Hannah Hanke

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The Self-Assessment tool from learningdesigned.com looks like an indispensable resource for online learners and instruction. Particularly in goal-setting, progress checks, and determine an area of focus;set and developing an action plan. -Hannah Hanke

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Quizlet is a platform that allows learners to use/create digital flash cards. Learners can search through other decks that teachers/learners have created to study for a specific subject/topic. Or learners can build their own deck to study from. The highlight about Quizlet is that since it is digital, learners can access the cards through an app on their phone. This allows the learner to incorporate learning on the go or through a medium that suits them more than relying on getting on a computer or having to carry physical notecards around to study.

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Google's Jamboard is a great tool for collaborative activities. It's easy to use and free if you have a Google account.

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Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that lets you collaborate in real time using either the Jamboard device (a 55-inch digital whiteboard that works with G Suite services), web browser or mobile app.

Work together in real time

You can share a jam session with collaborators whether they are on a Jamboard device, mobile app or web browser.

People in up to 50 user sessions can work on a jam at once. When using a web browser, each Jamboard browser tab counts as a session.

Using a Jamboard device, you can:

Write and draw with the included stylus.

Search Google and insert images or webpages.

Drag and resize text and images with your fingers.

Sketch a box, star, cat, or dragon. Image recognition technology converts your sketch into a polished image.

Using Jamboard on a computer, you can use a web browser to:

Write and draw using a mouse or trackpad.

Search Google and insert images or webpages.

Drag and resize text and images.

Present your jam to a Google Meet video call.

Open your jam on a Jamboard device.

Using the Jamboard mobile app, you can:

Write and draw using your touchscreen.

Drag and resize text and images with your fingers.

Open your jam on a Jamboard device.

Work with Google Drive

Using a Jamboard device, mobile app or web browser, you can also add Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to a jam.

And since your jam files are automatically saved to Drive, You can view and edit your jams from anywhere with an internet connection. Your jam work saves automatically.

Host video meetings

Using a Jamboard device, you can:

Display upcoming Google Calendar events on Jamboard.

Tap an agenda item to start a scheduled meeting.

Present your whiteboard to people viewing remotely.

Collaborate with any device

Create, edit, and share jams from your phone, tablet, or computer.

Open a jam on a nearby Jamboard from your phone or tablet.

Connect your computer to Jamboard device. Jamboard displays your screen and lets you control the computer from the board's touchscreen.

Pick up where you left off earlier or email your jam session when you finish.

Find Android and Apple® iOS® mobile apps to use with Jamboard.

Where to get Jamboard

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I have used this before and saw it listed in another column but I wanted to expand upon it because I feel like it would be a really useful tool for building and reviewing vocabulary. Learners could have a prompt asking them to list different vocabulary associated with a unit, topic, or reading (and it's definition or relevance if desired). This could be used to create a word cloud or simply a list of vocabulary that they could then review as a class.
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An assignment that I use to foster belongingness in DEIA classes is the Culture Chest. iMovie is a free video-editing app. It has multiple editing features that make it as easy to use as PowerPoint. This includes the ability to create titles, transitions, music, other media, or just using your own smartphone’s video feature. It has multiple built-in styles, the ability to delete, trim, split, or rearrange clips. The software also has the ability to “hear the magic as your music dynamically recomposes to the length of your project.” The students would have the option of using iMovie to create their assignment. I believe This would fall under all three: engagement, representation, and action and expression. The original assignment is described below.

The culture chest assignment is designed to help us begin to understand our own and each other's important social and cultural identities, and the dynamics around these identities. We will share our Culture Chest with the entire class to generate dialogue amongst ourselves about the meanings of our multiple cultural and social identities.

Preparing the Culture Chest

Choose a small box or a paper bag as your "chest," or create a container of some kind to display your items.  You may be as creative here as you wish.  One person made a huge puzzle that she laid out on the floor, with each piece representing one of her identities.  People have used music, movement, etc in addition to words.  Basic is quite acceptable; for example, a simple box with words on the outside and items on the inside.

Next, choose 3 or more items (most everyone includes more than three) that describe your membership in various social/cultural groups (Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ability, Religion, Social Class, Tribe, Age, etc.) which are "close to your heart."  These items could be a photograph, piece of art, book, music, or anything that describes aspects of who you are, and that are meaningful to you.  Place these items inside your "chest."  These items reflect how you see and feel yourself internally (the key thing here is that this is how you see, feel, experience yourself, not necessarily how others see you).

Lastly, decorate the outside of the chest with images (pictures, your own drawings, words/phrases) that describe how you think other people see these aspects of you and/or your social/cultural groups.  These words describe what you get reflected back at you from others, which may or may not be congruent with YOUR internal self image. A goal here is to see the similarities and differences between how you see yourself and what comes at you from others, including media, advertising, etc.  Get it?

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We use this tool for our quarterly equity walks. The tool combined the UDL engagement rubric and the equity rubric. It lets us know as a school areas of growth and areas of strength. Trainings and PD can be developed based on data collected. Additionally, when feedback from this tool is shared directly with teachers or grade level teams, it can help guide their planning.
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This Is Lucidspark - which is part of Lucid Charts. There is probably a million things you can do with this tool, but primarily I love it for collaborative mind mapping, process building, diagraming and brainstorming. This works wonderfully for remote collaborative learning.

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Edpuzzle is a way to use videos to engage students. It allows you to ask questions during videos that you've found or created that students must respond to.
https://edpuzzle.com/
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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Jotform is an online form building tool with options for creating surveys and quizzes. It is much more robust and customizable than Google forms. This is a great way to solicit learner feedback and test knowledge. Additionally, you can easily embed the forms you create within a web page for seamless integration with other online content.

Survey maker features: https://www.jotform.com/surveys/

Quiz maker features: https://www.jotform.com/quiz-maker/

Embed forms: https://www.jotform.com/help/34-embedding-a-form-to-a-web-page/

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What is a survey maker?

A survey maker creates online surveys and questionnaires without requiring any coding. You can add questions, set up conditional logic, and share your survey with others to gather responses

What is a survey maker used for?

A survey maker builds surveys that conduct research or gather feedback. Aggregated responses can be converted into visual reports to help you gain critical insights and better understand your data.

Can I create a free survey?

You can create a survey for free using Jotform. Without a paid plan, you'll be able to create a maximum of five free surveys - if you'd like to build more surveys and accept more than 100 monthly survey responses, you'll need to upgrade your account.

What is conditional logic? How do I set up survey logic with Jotform?

Our conditional logic feature will change the form fields that appear based on how a user answers your survey. To set up survey logic, go to Settings in the Form Builder and select the Conditions tab. You can choose whether to hide, reveal, require, and calculate fields, skip to a page, change the thank-you page, and more.

What type of surveys or questionnaires can I create?

With Jotform's 415+ free survey templates, the possibilities are endless! Gather feedback from employees, get to know your customers, conduct market research, receive feedback about events you've hosted, and even collect medical questionnaires protected with HIPAA compliance. No matter what industry you're in, our drag-and-drop Form Builder can help you create the perfect survey or questionnaire for your needs in seconds.

What types of questions should I add to my survey?

The types of questions you add to your survey depend on your survey goals. You can ask demographic questions or set up rating scales to better understand your audience. Yes-or-no questions are just one type of survey question that helps increase survey engagement. And it's important to ask questions that match the type of survey you're conducting - customer-focused surveys will ask more general market research-based questions, whereas feedback surveys will ask about a specific product, experience, or event. To learn more about what type of questions to add to your survey, visit our blog.

How can I analyze my survey results?

Jotform offers two ways for you to turn your survey data into valuable insights. You can use our Form Analytics feature to analyze traffic, or you can convert survey responses into visual reports with Jotform Report Builder.

Can I display my survey in Kiosk Mode?

Yes. To set up Kiosk Mode, start by downloading Jotform Mobile Forms for iOS or Android. You can then choose a form on your mobile device, select Open in Kiosk Mode, and choose to continue with or without screen lock. When a user fills out a form on your smartphone or tablet, the form will automatically refresh after every submission so that it's ready to be filled in by another user right away. For more information on how to use Kiosk Mode, visit our user guide.

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My name is Ashley Cherry. I have been introduced to Canva through classes that I have taken. I absolutely love Canva. I like that it has templates to use for those that are not as creative as others. I also love that you can create from scratch if you want to. You can do videos, infographics, websites, and more! The products always turn out so well and you don't have to be an expert to have success. This tool provides a variety of options for all levels of learners.

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Read&Write for Google Chrome - Desirae N.

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Read&Write is a Chrome extension that can be used by students in classrooms or in the workplace. Read&Write is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. This can be used anywhere within the Google Suite. Students can use this to help create written content to express their thoughts in a word document or in a presentation in Google Slides.

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Our Learning and Training resources for each product can be accessed at any time on our website. Get up to speed with our software through our learning resources, then verify your expertise by taking part in our certification program.

Our support site gives you access to lots of common questions that other users of our software have about the technical stuff. If you can't find what you're looking for there, then our Tech Support team is on hand at support@texthelp.com 9-5pm every day to help with troubleshooting or technical problems.

We're always working on making our products better, so any improvements or enhancements are pushed out automatically to you, there's no upgrading to do on your part.

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A multi-tool powerhouse! Through SnagIt, you can manipulate images, add call outs (arrows, shapes, etc.), and record short videos where you can apply those call outs to a document. Great for making handouts with custom pictures, responding to projects students turn in, or providing an alternative to written directions. It is a paid service, but they have an educator discount.
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This tool is a great way to increase student engagement through the use of a virtual scavenger hunt. One way I have used it is in teaching camera angles. Students form groups and race to submit images they have taken using the correct camera angle. We then meet to view and discuss the submissions. Learners can submit images or videos individually or in teams to demonstrate understanding or find learning examples in their environment. The free version only supports 5 teams/users, so it's important to factor that in. There is a library of pre-made games and the ability to create your own content-specific games.

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The Mentimeter word cloud tool is a great product for reflection during a synchronous training. You can add the Mentimeter tool for your reflection prompts and have your group add a few words with regard to the reflection to build the word cloud.

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As a government agency, we are required to use plain language in our documents, website and trainings. This can often be difficult when explaining the law. Tools like this one can be an excellent resource to assess the written content you are developing. You do need to sign up for an account, but it is free.

Why plain language?  "Plain language benefits authors and consumers because:

It is efficient (readers don't have to work hard to understand),

More people understand the message and fewer people misunderstand, and therefore,

People can respond to what they read with less support from authors. "

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The Plain Language Summary Tool was developed in collaboration between the University of Washington Center for Technology and Disability Studies (UWCTDS) and AIR's Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR). Copyright © 2013-2021 American Institutes for Research (AIR).

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I have used Otter.ai in both online only and "Hi-Flex" classroom sessions where both online and in-person students attended the same class. Otter.ai, at the time I used it, was more accurate than youtube or Zoom speech-to-text translations, although this is a field that is changing rapidly.

The one thing that made its use possible in the hi-flex and in-person settings is that the instructor MUST wear a microphone.  I used a two-channel wireless mic that allowed me to wear a lav mic and also has a handheld mic to record students when they spoke. That put all voices onto the recorded class session and allowed Otter.ai to make a transcript.

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Jeopardy Labs - Where Have You Been All My Life?!

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Jeopardy Labs - Where Have You Been All My Life?!

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I've spent an extraordinary amount of time in a janky PPT file making a Jeopardy-like quiz for my team.  THIS is a game changer!!!

Julie Staples

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Anastasia Royce
I'm expanding on this tool because I can see the usefulness in the corporate world in how it supports collaboration and flexibility. I like the fact that you can use a variety of design elements (colors, links, pictures, or symbols) and exercise your creativity. You can also share your map with others and build it together in real-time. After you create it, it's really simple to invite colleagues to view/edit the map. This makes learning and sharing an interactive process that drives momentum during times of strict deadlines or goals that need to be met.

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Mural is a collaborative intelligence company | Mural

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Level up your teamwork with an intuitive digital whiteboard built for teams to do their best work together. Make it a mural, not a meeting.

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Jane Doe
Microsoft Word Online (not the desktop version, unfortunately) can transcribe speech to text by recording directly into Word Online or uploading an audio file. This is a great free feature of a program many people already use.

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Anywhere access

Whether you're at work or on the go, create your best work on your favorite browser.

Familiar experience

The familiar Microsoft 365 experience you know and trust, so there's nothing new to learn.

Work with anyone

Share your documents with anyone and work together in real-time.

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Free Microsoft 365 Online | Word, Excel, PowerPoint

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With Microsoft 365 for the web you can edit and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files on your devices using a web browser.

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BeeLine Reader (UDL: Engagement/ Recruiting Interest/ Minimize Threats and Distractions)

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BeeLine Reader (UDL: Engagement/ Recruiting Interest/ Minimize Threats and Distractions)

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This tool was developed primarily as a Chrome extension but is available on other platforms, including e-reader devices. It adds a color gradient to sentences to help improve readability online. In the Chrome extension, there is also an option to dim/darken parts of a webpage that include distractions like ads or images. This helps improve focus and engagement when reading articles online or watching embedded videos.

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You can now read textbooks with BeeLine! Click here to get 50% off your first month!

Add to Chrome

Read Faster and Easier, All Day Long

Suffering from screen fatigue? We're here to help! BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick - an eye-guiding color gradient - to pull your eyes through long blocks of text. This helps you read more effectively and maintain your focus better.

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We've just launched our first ebook partnership, with Perlego. They're like Netflix-for-ebooks, and they have tons of textbooks and non-fiction titles too. If you sign up via this link, you can get 50% off your first month! To use BeeLine extensions for iOS (totally free!), Chrome, and PDF, check out the links below!

Many companies are considering adding BeeLine to their products, and the more they hear from people like you, the sooner BeeLine will be available. Scroll through the icons below and click on a platform where you'd like to see BeeLine to show your support. It just takes a minute, but it makes all the difference in the world!

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BeeLine Reader: making reading on-screen easier and faster.

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You can now read textbooks with BeeLine! Click here to get 50% off your first month! Add to Chrome Read Faster and Easier, All Day Long Suffering from screen fatigue? We're here to help! BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable.

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MURAL makes everything easier -- from ideas, meetings, designs, feedback gathering, and retrospections. I used this tool in a project where we used one of the whiteboard images to gather ideas in sticky notes. MURAL offers a variety of templates that can be using in Education, UX/UI Design, Agile Project Management, Sales, Consulting, among others. From lesson plans, user journey maps, mind maps, team building maps...anything can be possible with MURAL.

-Anabelle Acevedo

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AI-powered visual workspace for team collaboration | Mural

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Boost team collaboration and innovation with Mural, the AI-powered visual workspace. Plan, strategize, and execute projects seamlessly on one intuitive tool.

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I haven't used this tool but it's on my list! Genially lets you create presentations, infographics, guides, interactive images...but also GAMES! They have all types of templates to create puzzles, escape room, match the word, and memory games, among other types. I like that you can see examples of games that have already been created. Genially has videos you can learn from and you can start for free!

-Anabelle Acevedo

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Drive content engagement with gamification | Genially

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Make communication fun and engaging with gamification. 250+ online game templates for e-learning, training, marketing, and business.

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Creating Sketchnotes for virtual courses

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Creating Sketchnotes for virtual courses

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As a life-long learner, I realized that my doodles for all the years I have been taking my notes, at school or in meetings, have a specific word associated with them. The word of the day is Sketchnotes. What a fun way to take notes, add  drawings, make it colorful and at the same time learn new skills.
Here is a quick link to a 5-minute demo I found on YouTube.
Sketchnotes give learners the opportunity to express themselves, take notes and possibly share these with other students and create a fun gallery together.
These can be made using Canva, Power Point, Word and many other on-line tools. Also, you can do these by hand, take a pic and just upload them to the online tool of your choosing, could be anything from Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and many other platforms.

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Felicity Abreu
If you are new to e-learning Powtoons simplifies video making until you are ready for Articulate. Though it will meet all UDL categories you are still restricted on how far you can think outside the box. When you feel like like Powtoons is not meeting your needs anymore, that is when you'll know you're ready for Articulate 360. Take a look at the link to see how it can benefit the instructor and the learners.

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Powtoon | Create Awesome Videos Yourself

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Powtoon gives you everything you need to easily make professional videos and presentations that your clients, colleagues, and friends will love! No design or tech skills are necessary - it's free, easy, and awesome!

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Felicity Abreu.
Articulate 360 is customizable that you can create an e-learning with UDL in mind. The video will explain how to do so. This is the software that all instructional designers at work use. My goal when completing the certificate is to complete an e-learning using articulate.

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The UDL checklist that provided as a resource wouldn't display for me. However, it created enough interest for me to find one to reference to ensure UDL "compliance" with the LMS and instructional materials that are being designed for all 28K people.

While using the checklist in its entirety isn't realistic, it's a great resource to ensure, support, and doublecheck that as ID we are doing what can to offer UDL guidelines to all learners.

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https://info.flip.com/

Flip allows  learners to record responses to prompts and reply to each other in discussions. It can be moderated by an educator and provides tools for allow learners to communicate in unique ways.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Educational Hip-Hop Songs & Videos for All Subjects, K-12

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Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers use Flocabulary’s educational raps and teaching lesson plans to supplement their instruction and engage students. Our team of artists and educators is not only committed to raising test scores, but also to fostering a love of learning in every child.

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I was just introduced to this via someone in the course in the last discussion post. I've since been playing around with it and I'm obsessed! A really good, interactive way to give a breakdown or overview of important information that doesn't include just long chunks of endless scrolling text.

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Page turn effects and slideshows for your design

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Hyperdocs address all UDL categories as a digital tool to engage learners as they build background knowledge and interact with content asynchronously. More information about hyperdocs can be found at https://hyperdocs.co/

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These browser add-ons allow pop-ups for Japanese language vocabulary encountered on a website. My language students have used it to be able to access material that is otherwise beyond their current abilities. While it will only translate one word at a time, the database it uses is generally more reliable than Google translate, so it's great for Japanese language students who are familiar with basic grammar structures but might not know certain terms. These tools will also work on a Google doc, so students can copy/paste content beyond what they find on the web that otherwise might not be accessible.

Rikaichan (Firefox add-on): https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/firefox/addon/rikaichan/

Rikaikun (Chrome add-on): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rikaikun/jipdnfibhldikgcjhfnomkfpcebammhp?hl=en

--Kim Mc Nelly

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About this Add-on

Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. Detailed kanji view.

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Thunderbird users: The send button may be disabled if you use Rikaichan 3.00. Please make sure you are using 3.02.
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To download a dictionary file for this addon:
addons.mozilla.org
polarcloud.com

You can download the latest experimental versions here:
Beta Channel

Note: If you get an error message about "dicPath," please try disabling other dictionary addons. Some addons that re-use Rikaichan's code without renaming them may overwrite Rikaichan's code with their own version and cause problems.

Version Information

- Fix Thunderbird send button was disabled.
- Cleanup database functions.
- Don't use device pixel ratio by default (used mainly for zoom adjustment). This caused popup position problems on some systems. This can still be enabled in the options screen if needed.
- Add option to let users adjust the vertical position of the popup.

See complete version history

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Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. Detailed kanji view. --- Thunderbird users: The send button may be disabled if you use Rikaichan 3.00.

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Edit, create, and view your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations - all without internet access.

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I recently downloaded Canva after I heard about it in one of our Thursday optional meetings. I haven't fully explored I believe it is a great tool with so many resources that can be used as part of an e-learning experience. I liked that it is user friendly and that it has lots of free content that can be used. Depending on the kind of document you want to create you can choose a template and work with that as a base and edit what is already there or even add text, images, etc. I am still learning to use it but it seems like a great tool that covers different kinds of media that can be useful for e-learning.

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Nearpod is a digital tool that enables instructors to broadcast a presentation embedded with interactive polls and quizzes, with learner responses delivered in real-time. You can upload courses created in slide-based programs like PowerPoint or Google Slides, for example, and add elements such as interactive slides, videos, questions, gamification activities, whiteboards, worksheets, and more.

This great resource can be used to make both instructor led and self-paced online courses more engaging for learners. Educators have access to a library of pre-made lessons, videos and activities that can either be used "as is" or customized as needed. Nearpod's basic ("Silver") package is free, with a Gold package costing $120 a year, and Platinum at $349 per year.

Visit www.nearpod.com for more information, or watch the video at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anTtMRaQLsM

-Kimberly Jacobs

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The integrated software to SAP provides in-application help directly in the SAP applications. It allows associates choice and autonomaty as well as immediate feedbacks.

Barbara Duttge

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This will enable those with vision difficulties or reading difficulties to listen to the text instead of reading it. This falls under Representation because it gives students an alternate means of accessing the information.

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Dyslexia and other reading-based learning disabilities are most common among students. NaturalReader text-to-speech makes learning more accessible by assisting with any reading, taking tests and promoting independence.

Students can have any text they need to read, read aloud to them so they can read along. Having the text provided both visually and auditory, allows the student to focus less on the act of reading, and more on the comprehension of the content. Other features like dyslexia font, flexible reading speeds, and highlighted text also ease the task of finishing readings.

For most students, learning does not stop when school ends. NaturalReader EDU enables students to be more independent and assists with learning at home. Whether they're doing homework, reading at home, or just surfing the web, our Chrome Extension and Mobile Application are always available.

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NaturalReader: Free Text to Speech for Online, Mobile App, Commercial license and Education with AI voices.

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I have used Kahoot as a review game in a high school classroom, and I have used it in adult training setting as an ice breaker. In both settings, participants were engaged and interested. Kahoot conforms to UDL standards because people of different ages and abilities can play it, and the content is whatever you make it.

--Suzanne Story