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Who is the Instructional Accessibility Group?
As an integral part of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design, the Instructional Accessibility Group provides faculty training to support creating more accessible and inclusive instructional content.
Through a proactive and calculated approach, we can develop more inclusive and impactful instruction, meet our students where they are, and reduce our reliance on accommodations by creating more equitable content. Above all, we can create a culture of accessibility at MSU Denver.
Faculty Trainings and Services:
- Accessibility Bytes: 30-minute virtual instructional accessibility workshops. Bytes will resume in Fall 2025.
- Proactive Accessibility Liaisons (PALs): Accessibility Faculty Cohort, similar to Peer Associates model. Stipend available for faculty who complete and present their final project. We are recruiting for Fall 2025, please email us if interested.
- Access Checks and Course Reviews. Evaluation of one piece of course material for accessibility or a general evaluation of a Canvas Course for accessibility, with guidance on next steps.
- Pilot PDF Remediation Service. We are partnered with the English department, faculty from fall PALs, and faculty who requested Course Reviews in fall.
Accessibility Basics
What is Proactive Accessibility?
Accommodations for accessibility are, by their nature, reactive. Accommodations are individual solutions for individual access barriers. On the other hand, the CTLD and the IAG are promoting proactive accessibility, meaning that we provide training resources for faculty to remove as many barriers as possible to make all course materials and Canvas pages accessible from the beginning, greatly reducing the need for individual interventions. For more details, UWGB’s page on Accessibility versus Accommodations has great explanations and examples.
The IAG understands (and has personal experience) with the busy workload that faculty hold, and so we are constantly working on efficient ways for faculty to create and remediate their course materials and Canvas pages. Check out the Quick Tips page for ways to start improving accessibility a few minutes at a time.
More Accessibility Basics
Accessibility Guides, Live Trainings, and Other Services
Email the IAG
Email the Instructional Accessibility Group to arrange department meeting visits, request Access Checks or Course Reviews, and with other instructional accessibility questions. We are here to support faculty!
Other Instructional Assistance
Summer note! CTLD Drop-In support is Virtual ONLY for Summer 2025.
For general Canvas and digital instructional assistance, the CTLD offers drop-in support both virtually over Teams and in-person in Admin Building 325. Drop-in support is available from 10am to 3pm, Monday through Friday, excluding school holidays and campus closures. Visit the CTLD Ready site for more information and the virtual link.