Design PLUS: How to Upgrade Your Existing Course Content Overview
In this article: * Upgrade Existing Course Content * Options for Course Content Upgrade Option 1: Upgrade at the Course Level Option 2: Upgrade at the Page Level Upgrade Existing Course Content Whether you've already started designing your course or have imported a course over from an earlier term, …
Accessibility Overview
In this article: * Getting Started * Next Steps Check out our collection of articles on accessibility best practices. These are designed to be low-effort, high-impact strategies to improve your courses' Ally scores while making your content more accessible for your students, regardless of accessibility needs an…
Checking PowerPoint Slides for Accessibility
In this article: * How to Use Ally to Identify Inaccessible PowerPoint Files * How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint's Built-In Accessibility Checker When using PowerPoint slides in a Canvas course site, two tools can help you quickly check the accessibility of your content: Ally and Microsoft PowerPoint's built-in ac…
Accessibility Tips: The Scary Truth About Scanned PDFs
In this article: * Why You Should Avoid Scanned PDFs Text on the page cannot be selected, copied, or searched. Scanned PDFs are often of poor quality. * How to Find Alternative Solutions Use the FSU Libraries Database * Work with a Librarian Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The …
Accessibility Tips: Kaltura Makes Captioning Easy
In this article: * Create, Caption, and Share Your Videos with Kaltura * Adding YouTube Videos to Kaltura via Media Upload (video owned by user) * Editing Captions in Kaltura Editing Auto-generated Captions * Uploading YouTube Videos directly to Kaltura (if video not owned by user) * Additional Se…
Accessibility Tips: Clean Up Your Ally Score with TidyUP
In this article: * How to Use TidyUP * Files * Canvas Content * Folders Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of accessibility guides . This tip describes how to use Tid…
Accessibility Tips: Converting Documents and PowerPoints to PDFs
In this article: * Why Should I Use "Save As"? * How to Use "Save As" for Microsoft * How to Use "Save As" for Mac * How to Use "Save As" with Outdated Software * What If "Print To" Is My Only Option? * How to Use "Print To" Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning ha…
Accessibility Tips: Image Descriptions
In this article: * How to Add Image Descriptions * Make it Meaningful * New to Ally? Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of accessibility guides . This tip describes ho…
Accessibility Tips: Descriptive Document Titles
In this article: * How to Add a Missing Title Adding Titles in Microsoft Word Adding Titles in PDFs * New to Ally? Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection of access…
Arranging PowerPoint Content in Logical Reading Order
In this article: * Understanding Reading Order * How to Check and Verify Reading Order * Handling Decorative Images Note: The instructions featured in this article were written based on Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows (Version 2412). The interface and features demonstrated below may vary based on the versio…
Recent News View all
Key Resources
