Setting Up Your LMS Home and Course for Basic Accreditation Standards

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Cassandra “Sandy” Dell - LMS Administrator@CassandraDellEdinboro Universitycdell@edinboro.edu Desire2Learn Ignite Pennsylvania

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October 18, 2013

Short Back History (98? To 2010)

Headers for the course along with course name and informationOn this side you would have text that is used for navigation.

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

Unit 6

Etc….

These color combinations make it very hard to navigate a course

Beginning of Changes…………………………….

Faculty could not add their own images/backgrounds for their navigation bars so they had a limited choose of ‘colors’

Widget Tiles still could be changed

Move from 9.4 to 10.0

New President New Font/Logo/New Look

Problems Seen (2010-2012)• No OSD information in the course

• Colors that are not accessible by WCAG 2.0

• Incorrect support information in the courses

• Student can not find student support services or DE support

• Students are unaware of COC, AI, Copyright or general ‘information literacy’

• Students switching between courses and not knowing how to begin or where to go

• Support associates taking longer to resolve problems because they are unable to locate tools

StandardsPrepping began 2010 – March 30 to April 2, 2014

Joined Fall 2010

11 – Educational Offerings13 – “Fundamental Elements of Distance or Distributed Learning”

6.3 Navigation through out the online components7.1 Technical support offered and how to access it7.2 Accessibility policies/services7.3 Academic Support/Students Success8.1 How to obtain accommodation

How we see the LMS and Courses

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Classroom

Change before you have to – Jack Welch

If you want to make enemies, try to change something – Woodrow Wilson