To help faculty and staff build the skills to make their course content fully accessible, we built an Accessible Skills Email Challenge to help you learn the basics.  Join the Accessible Skills Challenge to master the essential skills needed to make your course content accessible and stay ahead of the curve!!

How Does it Work?

Email Prompt

For 8 weeks, participants receive an email asking them to perform a single accessibility task in their course. These tasks focus on core elements of content that can then be applied across their entire course. 

The email:

• Explains why the task is important.
• Outlines what exactly you should do.  The task should take approximately 15 minutes to complete each week.
• Will include at least one “how-to” resource for completing the task  

Resources

You can find other resources on the Accessible Skills Challenge FAQ page: Level 1 or Level 2 (coming soon!)

Teams

In the Teams space, you will find questions that help you reflect on the task that you just completed.  Typically, these questions ask what was easy/difficult about the task, what you found surprising, how it applies to your specific course, and what recommendations you would tell other faculty doing the task.

Completion

You can pick and choose which tasks you want to complete.  A badge will be provided for those who complete 6 of the 8 weekly tasks.  Feel free to pick and choose which prompts you’d like to try!  

You will receive 1 email per week during the challenge, but you will have until the end of the semester to complete the tasks.  We know how hard it is to engage in faculty development when you are teaching!