Monday, January 16 | 12pm - 1pm

Ally and Web Accessibility Drop-In

The Faculty of Education is taking part in a pilot of the accessibility tool Ally.

Join us in this workshop which will introduce the tool, as well as web accessibility principles which can be used to improve the accessibility of your course content on Canvas.

This session covers:

• Overview of Ally and how to use it
• Overview of web accessibility principles and how to apply them

Note: This event will be held online on Zoom as well as in-person drop-in concurrently. The session will be recorded and distributed to all registrants.

Drop-In Location:
Educational Technology Support
Room 1008, Neville Scarfe Building
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6T 1Z4

Facilitators:
Gabrielle Coombs and Marika Cheng

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Thursday, January 5 | 12pm- 1pm

Are you a new instructor and want some help with Canvas? Have you used Canvas before and are feeling a little rusty? Either way, please join Getting Set Up with Canvas where our ETS Learning Technology team will guide you through UBC’s LMS, Canvas, and help you go from a blank page to a course that your students can effectively navigate, and that you can administer with ease.

This session covers an overview of the Canvas Learning Management System, moving content into a Canvas Course, setting up the homepage, syllabus, assignments and modules, and a review of external tools Zoom and LOCR.

Note: This event will be held online on Zoom. The session will be recorded.




Facilitators: Marika Cheng and Eduardo Rebagliati

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Friday, December 2 | 11:30am - 12:30pm

In this workshop on Web Accessibility for staff. We will explore ways you can improve communications and online contents using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

This session will cover:

• WCAG - Web accessibility guidelines and principles
• Strategies for improving web content accessibility for communications

Facilitators: Gabrielle Coombs, Marika Cheng, and Eduardo Rebagliati