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Accessibility Considerations for Students With Motor Disabilities
February 10, 2025
Online courses can offer numerous advantages to students. In order for all students to benefit from these advantages, it is essential to prioritize accessibility needs in all aspects of course design and delivery. This piece focuses on considerations and recommendations for enhancing the accessibility of online courses for students with motor impairments.
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Managing Files in Canvas
February 13, 2024
Students and instructors alike benefit from consistent file management in online courses. Ensuring that students can readily locate and access the files they need serves to promote engagement and completion of course requirements. Similarly, consistent file management helps instructors to navigate through and update materials efficiently and to avoid introducing file-related errors. This post outlines recommendations and key considerations for optimizing file management within your online course. While recommendations and considerations related to Canvas-specific functionality are threaded throughout, you will also find broadly applicable tips pertinent to multiple learning management systems.
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Quantitative Course Best Practices
July 02, 2024
"What I hear, I forget; what I see, I remember; what I do, I understand." –Chinese proverb
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Inclusive Citation
January 13, 2025
Inclusive citation practices can empower educators to cultivate equity, enrich academic discourse, and create welcoming learning environments. By prioritizing diverse perspectives and ensuring the representation of underrepresented voices, instructors can address systemic inequities in scholarship and amplify marginalized contributions. Such efforts not only deepen students’ critical engagement with course materials but also foster a sense of belonging, preparing them to thoughtfully navigate an increasingly interconnected world.
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Don't Leave Your Learners Behind: Start Tackling Web Accessibility Now!
October 17, 2022
If you’re an educator, you're probably familiar with the concept of accessibility, which often manifests in the classroom in the form of accommodation requests to meet specific students' needs. If you're an online educator, you've hopefully heard about web accessibility, which requires adhering to specific guidelines when designing and providing materials via the web, reducing the need for student accommodations by anticipating and removing potential barriers to learning.
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Quiz Writing Best Practices
March 21, 2025
Quizzes are one of the most common forms of assessment. Instructors can use quizzes to not only test students but also check on their students’ progress throughout a course. When used effectively, quizzes can assess students in a variety of ways. This piece will provide recommendations and best practices for enhancing the quality of quiz content.
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Accessible PDFs
June 14, 2024
Developing and delivering accessible instructional content—meaning content that students with and without disabilities can readily engage with and use—is essential to the success of an online course. While many accessibility standards and guidelines are broadly applicable, there are also specific considerations unique to different content formats and delivery modes. In this piece, we present recommendations for enhancing the accessibility of PDFs for students.
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Hyperlink Dos and Don'ts
December 12, 2022
When designing a course, you want to ensure that all students can access the websites and documents that you link to. Accessible hyperlinks are particularly important for students with screen readers, which read the links out loud. This piece contains best practices for writing and formatting accessible hyperlinks so that all learners can access the content that you have curated for your course.
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Leveraging Podcasts in Online Higher Education
March 28, 2024
Podcasts are digital audio that you can download or stream onto a computer or mobile device. They are convenient, portable, reusable, and do not require particularly high-tech devices or connections. They are also popular. According to a 2022 Infinite Dial survey, "Seventy-three percent of the U.S. 12+ population (an estimated 209 million people) have listened to online audio in the last month, up from 68% in 2021" (Edison Research, 2022). While podcast use declined slightly in 2022, returning to pre-pandemic levels, the medium is still burgeoning, with plenty of room for further growth.
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Developing Written Course Content: Personal Experience Insights
August 28, 2025
In our Personal Experience Insights series, members of the Everspring Learning Design department share first-hand accounts of creating online learning content and meaningful takeaways from their professional experiences.
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