Desire2learn Accessibility Interest Group: Teleconference Details

Teleconference details

• Date: Thu, 04 Jun, 2009
• Time:
  • 8 AM (Pacific)
  • 9 AM (Mountain)
  • 10 AM (Central)
  • 11 AM (Eastern)
  • 3 PM (UTC)
• Duration: 1 hr
• Phone: (614)-247-6424
• Phone code: 0490#

Agenda

1. Access key proposal.
2. “Sample course on accessible course design” initiative
3. Housekeeping: Moving to the new sites.

Minutes

Accessibility training course discussion

• Keep accessibility-related information in a completely public area. Secure area may loose interest. Main page of D2L.
• Export course in a SCORM file that customers can import.
• Administrator may restrict course
• Need multiple levels of instruction – what trying to train faculty. Materials could be way over the heads of faculty.
• Suggest practices in HTML editor
• How to create accessible ppt, pdf. Not hard to do this. What to look for.

Hadi recommended that the consortium use the Talking Communities web-conferencing tool.

Hadi suggested that he would like to compile a new report on D2L. Focus to identify features.

Participants

• Janna Cameron, Desire2Learn
• Sandra Earl, Desire2Learn Incorporated
• Hadi Rangin, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
• Gary Storts, Tennessee Board of Regents