Guide to ensure access to online teaching

26/05/2020

Due to the current health crisis, our university had to adapt to virtual teaching hastily. As a result, both professors and students have had to make rapid steps in this direction.

In this course of action, the PIUNE (Service for Inclusion in the UAB. Support for students with Specific Educational Needs) has detected that in some cases the difficulties for students with specific educational needs have increased due to this situation. To solve this problem, PIUNE has accompanied and supported these students through online and phone mentoring.

Besides that, PIUNE has created a “Guide for virtual teaching and evaluation for students with specific educational needs”. This document gives resources to professors, aiming to develop virtual teaching, considering the students with specific educational needs. It presents a collection of general and useful resources such as accessibility to materials and other solutions that have a relevant impact to respond the students’ individual needs. For example, it provides tools to give classes through videoconference considering people with hearing disabilities.

On the other hand, PIUNE has also published two more guides: the Guide to applying adaptations in the Virtual campus and the Guide to use Aegisub (a programme to adapt videos using subtitles).

All these documents can be found in the new section of digital accessibility on the FAS website where professors can find other resources created by other universities with deferent guidelines to create accessible material.