Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend
Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.
This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.
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LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks
LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.
The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and...
Engage in the Moment: Interactive Tools for the Classroom
Keep students active and accountable during class with technology designed for engaging participants. In this session, we'll explore three tools that bring real-time interaction into your teaching: Top Hat for live polling and comprehension checks, Perusall for collaborative text annotation, and Peerceptiv for structured peer review and team evaluations that deepen learning through reflection. Whether you teach a lecture hall or a seminar, you'll leave with practical strategies for integrating...
Engage on Their Time: Tools for Learning Outside Class
Extend engagement beyond class time by designing meaningful activities students can complete on their own schedules. This session focuses on Canvas Discussion Boards and Panopto, including new Discussion features such as multiple due dates and AI‑generated summaries that help instructors quickly gauge participation. We’ll also explore using Panopto for video‑based discussions to encourage authentic responses, reduce AI misuse, and strengthen instructor and student connections.
Engage with a community
We facilitate or co-facilitate communities related to technology and teaching and learning data on campus. These groups provide opportunities to connect with others and learn how instructors are implementing these tools in their courses.
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We offer one-on-one and departmental trainings related to instructional technology, classroom technology, and teaching and learning data.