Instructional Accessibility Trainings and Services

The IAG offers live scheduled trainings as well as custom trainings and workshops for groups or departments. Additionally, faculty can request the IAG to check course the accessibility of course materials.

NEW for Spring 2026!

• Workshop: Accessibility MegaBytes: Schedule a 90-120 minute working session with training and IAG staff available as resources. The IAG will present a short training on a requested topic and then will stay while faculty work on any of their accessibility projects and improvements.
• Accessibility check: Accessibility Snapshot: Collaboration between faculty and chair to get a short accessibility review of one-week’s worth of Canvas pages, course materials and documents, etc.

Continuing:

• Accessibility Bytes 30-minute virtual trainings.
• Access Checks.
• Department Visits.
• One-off training presentations.

Booked by departments or groups of faculty (5+), Accessibility MegaByte Working Sessions are an in-person 90-120 minute working session with some training; a time faculty can dedicate to working on accessibility with the IAG present as resources. MegaBytes can either be scheduled with your department coordinator in a department room or in  the AD 325 classroom in the CTLD.

Some potential topics, but certainly not all possibilities:

• Canvas page structure
• Document structure
• Canva Flyers
• Intro to PDF Remediation with Acrobat
• Intro to Understanding HTML and Accessibility
• Image Description: What, How, With help from AI

Email the IAG to discuss MegaBytes.

Quick 30-minute virtual trainings on accessibility fundamentals to accommodate faculty’s busy schedules.

Spring 2026 schedule:

Every other week Monday, Tuesday, Friday, 9:30am virtually on Teams.

• Week of 26 Jan: Accessible Documents
• Week of 9 Feb: Image Description: What, How, and with Assistance from AI 
• Week of 23 Feb: T4L Conference this week, no training
• Week of 9 Mar: Canvas and Accessibility
• Week of 23 Mar: Accessible Flyers with Canva
• Week of 6 Apr: Image Description: What, How, and with Assistance from AI
• Week of 20 Apr: Accessible PowerPoint

If there are additional topics you are interested in, or if you are a faculty member interested in presenting your innovative proactive accessibility techniques, please email the Instructional Accessibility Group at [email protected].

Instructors looking for feedback on the accessibility of part of their course can request an Access Check by emailing the IAG. We will spend between 1-6 hours investigating and provide a report with our findings. In addition to the report, instructors can request either a working session meeting (virtual over Teams or in-person) or request the IAG perform approximately 1 hour of remediation work as an exemplar. For more details, visit the Access Check Process webpage, or email us if you are ready to get started!

Accessibility Snapshots are a collaboration between faculty and chair to get a short accessibility review on digital content a student is expected to encounter during a typical week. Faculty and their chair will arrange with a member of the IAG to be added as a temporary student in Canvas to the review course. A short Snapshot report will be sent to be sent either Confidential (Faculty only; chair will only receive notice that Snapshot is complete) or Shared (Faculty and chair both receive complete report).

Anonymous and aggregated data will be used for analysis for both the CTLD and MSU Denver Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) unless a specific opt-out is requested. 

We love visiting departments! Please email us at [email protected] to schedule a visit with your department. We can do a shorter presentation at a department meeting on our services and guides, or we can run a longer meeting with some subject-specific accessibility tips (with advance notice so we have time to prepare).