Faculty Learning Circles

With some simple changes to your course materials, you can make a significant difference in how accessible your course content is for all of your students. Below are resources on syllabus statements and accessibility tools for slide decks and handouts.

• Practice adding alt text in this Google slide deck (download the slides as a .pptx file to practice using accessibility tools in PowerPoint, too!) 

Suggested Additional Reading

• Handout from Faculty Learning Circle: How to Make Your Course Materials More Accessible: 4 Simple Changes to Syllabi, Handouts, and Slide Decks
• Cecilia Silver, The Writing's on the Wall: Using Multimedia Presentation Techniques from the Museum World to Improve Law School Pedagogy, 126 Dickinson L. Rev 475 (2022) (discussing the benefit of adding visuals to the law school classroom, which traditionally has skewed toward verbal, Socratic learning).
• Ruth Colker, Towards Universal Design in the Classroom, 71 J. Legal Ed. 57 (2021).
• Susan David de Maine, Accessibility, in Introduction to Law Librarianship (2022). (See especially "Digital Accessibility" and "Teaching/Training Materials").