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OPEL Fellows for 2025-2027
Leah Bueso
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Online Graduate Salute 2025
Congratulations Graduates!
UIS Online grads, we are proud of you -- of your achievements, of your resilience, of your tenacity. Earning your degree online requires tremendous self-discipline and determination: juggling schedules, keeping organized, studying late into the night, and rising early to make deadlines.
Enjoy this day. Be proud. You've worked hard to earn it, and we salute you!
TidyUP Canvas Course Cleanup Tool
What is TidyUP?
TidyUP from Cidi Labs is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses. It provides a quick way to view all your course content and clean out anything that is no longer needed. You can identify and delete extra files, folders, pages, or assignments that are no longer needed to make your course easier to manage and more usable for you and your students!
What happens when I copy from Word into Canvas?
Converting Word documents into Canvas pages, assignments, or other content can be really valuable for students navigating Canvas courses. Students using the Canvas mobile app often have trouble accessing Word files from their mobile devices; these issues are less likely to occur when the content is built in the Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE). It can also make things easier on the instructor by eliminating many of the steps needed to update content or instructions.
Spring 2025 Start Dates
- Sixteen-week & first-half courses will be published and made available for students on Monday, January 13th at 12:01 a.m.
- A resource page on copying your Canvas content is available.
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COLRS Winter Intersession Support
- No office hours will be held on December 24 through January 1.
- COLRS is closed on December 25 and January 1.
- The COLRS team will be rotating coverage to provide support for faculty teaching Winter Intersession courses on December 24, 26, 27, 30, and 31.
- Please email the COLRS inbox for assistance! We are happy to schedule Zoom meetings with you, as well.
Happy holidays!
The COLRS Team
~Carrie, Emily, Scott, and Taylor
PowerPoint Accessibility
PowerPoint's structure and the ease of adding content to slides prompts special accessibility considerations. The best way to make an accessible PowerPoint is to keep these in mind as you are first creating the document, as it is common to have to recreate slides otherwise. This page details the PowerPoint-specific accessibility concerns. Be sure to review the issues listed on the Microsoft Office page as well.
Accessibility in Microsoft Office
This section details the accessibility elements in Microsoft Office that are shared when working with Word and PowerPoint documents. Their respective pages have further details on the issues that are specific to that filetype, and additional resources can be found on the Creating Accessible Documents and Websites page.
Creating Accessible Documents and Websites
This page is a collection of resources regarding the accessibility of Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents as well as websites, beginning with our pages on the common issues in each type of document.
The page on Office covers the concepts and issues that are present in both Word and PowerPoint documents, while their respective pages cover topics that are unique to that filetype.
MS Word Accessibility
Beyond what is mentioned in the Accessibility in Microsoft Office page, Word has a few additional accessibility concerns you should be aware of. Also included on this page are some useful formatting tools in Word to deal with these issues as well as how to use the accessibility checker.