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10 Types of Alternative Assessments

While faculty continue to maneuver through the pandemic to ensure that students are retaining the content being taught, alternative assessment has become a staple in conversations as being a category of consideration for the classroom. Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment,

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Alternative Assessment Methods For Online Environment

Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment, faculty may need to consider alternative assessment strategies with respect to end-of-semester formal exams and/or continuous assessments. These strategies could be considered as an online alternative to assessments that would generally be carried out in

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Is your course Active?

Once your Brightspace course is ready for prime-time (allow learners to access), make your course active by going to COURSE ADMIN -> COURSE OFFERING INFORMATION and click checkbox next to “Course is Active” about half-way down the page and SAVE. EXAMPLE Only when an instructor has made the course active, will enrolled learners be able to

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Images – Creating Accessible Course Content

For those of us that are not visually impaired an image can communicate a lot of information without words. However for those that are blind or visually impaired missing “alt text” results in a screen reader delivering the following information to the reader: “image”. This not really helpful if the purpose of the image is to support or illustrate a concept.

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