Building Sustainable Course Accessibility

Join Carey Applegate (Director of Digital Accessibility, UIS) and Emily Boles (Chief Online Learning Officer, UIS) for a discussion of how the University of Illinois Springfield prepared for the ADA Title II compliance deadline. They’ll discuss how their teams built a shared approach to course accessibility, combining faculty consultations, targeted file remediation, and quality assurance reviews to make the most of limited resources.

Meet the three CAPE director finalists at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Nov. 10 in UHB 2024 or 3 p.m. Nov. 11 in UHB 1005 or via Zoom.

Event speakers include Dr. Daniel Platt, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, and Dr. Nathan Steele, Associate Professor of Management, Marketing, and Operations.

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UIS faculty and staff are invited to honor this year's recipient of the prestigious University Scholars Award on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

Join COLRS from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 11 in UHB 3080 or on Zoom to explore strategies for organizing online courses, sharing key information and setting clear student expectations.

This workshop, from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 21 in UHB 2080 or on Zoom, will show how multimedia elements can enhance your course.

Join the discussion from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 17 in UHB 1031 or on Zoom to explore how NACE competencies help students communicate their skills.

Join Professor Hypatia Bolivar from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 12 in UHB 1031 or on Zoom to explore an activity comparing generative AI tools with PsycINFO for research.

In this workshop, Professor Lan Dong will discuss teaching and learning about health humanities and global awareness through visual storytelling. She will address course design and assignments inspired by research, pedagogy, and practices in the emerging field of graphic medicine. After a case study of selected class material and sample student projects, attendees will brainstorm, design, and workshop ideas for audio, visual, multimodal, interactive, and/or other innovative assignments to foster and assess student learning that would fit in their classes.

This workshop will explore how AI is reshaping the work of teaching, from the everyday to the essential. We’ll discuss core AI concepts, practice prompt engineering for instructional design, and consider how assessments might be redesigned. We’ll also talk about ethics, privacy, and academic integrity, and support for developing clear AI policies tailored to individual courses.

This event will be led by Itri Papanikolla (College of Du Page) and can be joined via Zoom