Fixing accessibility issues in documents is a skill that can be developed like any other. Here are some practice documents for you to build your digital accessibility muscle! This post will detail testing these documents with Panorama but you can also open them in other programs. Open the document based on file type using Microsoft […]
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Yuja Panorama is an accessibility tool integrated directly into Brightspace. This tool will make it easier to track and improve accessibility for your courses. This tool is a replacement for Ally and provides extended functionality. Panorama is also available outside of Brightspace by any employee. See the Panorama Accessibility – All Employee Access post for
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Yuja Panorama is a tool for checking document accessibility and creating alternate formats. It is our replacement for Ally but has a standalone portal for all employees to have access to these important tools. Accessing Panorama Panorama has a standalone site accessible to all employees. It utilizes our Meredith login so please choose to sign
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CopyLeaks is our new plagiarism detection software. CopyLeaks is replacing Turnitin and has comparable features. Currently, students must agree to an End User License Agreement (EULA) before their submissions can be processed through the software. If the students do not agree, no report will be generated for their submission. They only have to do this
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During the Fall 2024 Generative AI PDC, Instructional Designer Paul Keys demonstrated how to create a custom GPT chatbot to act as a course virtual tutor for students. Watch the demo below to learn how. The Spring AI PDC is ongoing! We’d love for you to join us. Contact Paul if you would like to
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Infobase Learning Cloud has published a ton of great professional development courses over the last year! From advanced courses on classic topics like Excel to newer interest topics like AI, there’s definitely plenty to check out. These are all self-paced courses free to the campus community. Use them for your own professional development or pull
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The IDAT Services team helped provide a Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Development Community this Fall semester. Paul Keys from IDAT, StrongPoints Director Emily Caldwell, and Reference Librarian Jake Vacarro facilitated the PDC over five sessions held every two weeks, both in person on campus and virtually via Zoom. Over 15 faculty and staff signed
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You need to build a form but where to build it? We have multiple campus form tools for different purposes so check out the details of each form option to decide. Google Forms Google Forms is the most available and easy to use form option. All faculty, staff, and students with a Meredith email address
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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) has been a fantastic free instructor resource but will soon be rolled into the Microsoft Teams for Education suite of tools. In this post we will share a few details about the access restrictions and alternatives from our own suite of Meredith tools. Some important dates for the Flip phase out: Read
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