Create a More Accessible Learning Environment with Digital Tools from SchoolVirtually

For our March installment of the tutor tips series on enhancing access and supporting learners with disabilities, we’re sharing a guide to digital teaching tools that help create a more accessible learning environment. This resource from SchoolVirtually provides a detailed breakdown of each tool’s functionality and ideas for incorporating it into your teaching in three categories: 

1. Tools that help vary how you convey information to learners.
2. Tools that help provide different methods for learners to express what they know.
3. Tools that help promote engagement in learning. 

For the Universal Design for Learning aficionados out there, you may recognize that these three categories align with the three UDL principles of representation, action and expression, and engagement. If you’re interested in exploring further, the rest of the SchoolVirtually website explores other topics related to implementing Universal Design for Learning in digital and remote learning environments. 

Previous installments in the Access Project’s tutor tip series: 

• The Got a Minute? Learning Series for Universal Design for Learning

• Backwards Design to Improve Lesson Access for All Learners with 5 Moore Minutes

Feedback or suggestions for this series? Contact Literacy Minnesota Access Coordinator, Emily Fox-Penner, at efoxpenner@literacymn.org.