Students with and without disabilities face barriers to engaging in effective written expression, ranging from actual physical access to the task to instructional factors. Such barriers may lead to a reduced quality of overall writing, potentially negatively impacting the academic, social, and post-school settings. However, through the purposeful application of UDL, written expression instruction and, in turn, students’ learning can be supported and improved. This describes this purposeful process at one school with students with high incidence disabilities with examining barriers to written expression, developing and implementing instructional supports, and then evaluating outcomes.

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FUEL Walkthrough Video

We recognize that quality course design is instrumental toward supporting student success. When an online learning environment is well designed, everyone achieves more, learns more, and is more equitably represented.

We recognize that many faculty do not necessarily know how to carry out accessible design. This course is intended to provide conceptual and theoretical framework and robust concrete practical strategies to guide faculty and instructional designers in building course material on Canvas according to the best practices of Universal Design for Learning to improve the accessibility and quality of learning experience for everyone.