Engaging eLearning on disability accommodations and inclusive course design

A fully accessible course on disability accommodations and inclusive course design, shaped with a community of 300 stakeholders and feedback from 60 people.

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Title screen of Fundamentals of Disability Accommodations and Inclusive Course Design, listing its three modules

300
stakeholders in the review community
60
people whose feedback was built into the course

About UMN

The University of Minnesota is a large public research university with more than 65,000 students in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs across five campuses.

A required course that had to be accessible to everyone

Fundamentals of Disability Accommodations and Inclusive Course Design was created for University of Minnesota faculty and instructors. They must complete it once. Anyone else in the University community can take it too.

The course is self-paced and accessible, so learners can return to it at any time. It has three interactive modules of about 20 minutes each:

Understanding disability and reasonable accommodations
Providing reasonable accommodations
Inclusive course design

How the team worked

A wide review community
The team worked with a community of 300 stakeholders and incorporated feedback from 60 individuals.
Accessibility from the start
Extensive accessibility requirements were part of the project from the start, and the team kept them in front through every revision.
A clearer storyboard process
The storyboard process was streamlined, with design elements that highlight accessibility notes during reviews.
Representation in visuals
Each of the hundreds of images in the course was reviewed for representation and met the University's expectations.

Inside the course

The course title screen
Course goals
The role of the Disability Resources offices
Each partner's experience of the process
Key information about accommodation letters
A practice scenario
Recording course completion

Project goals
- Create an engaging course in three modules of under 20 minutes each, accessible to everyone in the University community
- Make the content fully accessible and support a culture of inclusion and continuous learning
- Make the course required for University employees
- Offer the course as an option to people not employed by the University
Challenges
- Meeting a very high bar for accessibility
- Adapting processes as requirements evolved
- Meeting strict legal requirements while keeping a strong educational focus
- Reviewing hundreds of images for representation

The result

The course met and exceeded the University's requirements and expectations, and its accessibility features set a new benchmark for Neovation's own courses.

What UMN says

Thank you, Neovation, for your amazing work on this project. We are very proud of the course!

Tina Marisam, University of Minnesota

Types of interactivity
- Fully accessible and inclusive course design
- AI narration
- Scenarios
- Tabbed interactions
- Embedded videos
- Knowledge checks
- Play and pause controls
Where the content started
Prepared: the original content was significantly enhanced through a revision process that drew on stakeholder insights.