PDF Accessibility Decision Tree
With the approaching Department of Justice deadline (April 2026), we need to look for resources that guide us to make our content more accessible. If you’ve seen the Ally speedometers in your course, you may have noticed that PDFs are often the least accessible type...
Event Recap: Creating Online Assessments with Integrity in Mind
As we look for sustainable methods of assessing our students in the landscape of modern education, online testing practices often bring with them challenges related to academic integrity, equity, and practicality. Last month, Penn State Altoona partnered with Teaching...
Getting to, and using, Kaltura Analytics via Canvas
At our last Teaching and Learning Conference we spent time looking at Kaltura and talked about how we could monitor the way students were viewing the video content. One of the key take-aways of that conversation was how helpful it may be to use Kaltura Analytics to...
Outsmarting AI: Designing Exams that Require Human Thinking
As an instructor, we often struggle with how best to assess student learning. With formal exams, we want to make questions that test all the high points of required student learning, but are not super time consuming to grade. Navigating this often results in the...
Event Recap: Penn State Altoona’s Fall 2024 Teaching and Learning Conference
Last month, the Office of Instructional Design hosted an engaging, hands-on conference designed to help faculty explore underutilized tools and strategies for enhancing teaching with technology. We had about 40 faculty members in attendance throughout the day, and it...Subscribe to Blog Updates
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