This post contains announcements and details of past UDL Collaborative events

First of all, thank you to everyone who joined our November meeting last week! We appreciate you taking the time, and are grateful for your questions, ideas, and feedback. 

Save the date for our January 2025 meeting!

As mentioned at the meeting, with December being such a busy month including holiday preparations, celebrations, and final grades, we decided to skip our monthly meeting. In its place, we’ll be in touch with a few (festive!) UDL tips, resources, and ideas to keep our momentum going.

And please join us for our first meeting in the new year scheduled for Monday, January 13 from 12.30-1.30pm ET. All faculty and staff are welcome. Please register here, thank you!

Resource Links

See below for a list of resources our team and other participants had shared in the last meeting chat:

  1. UDL Guidelines by CAST. 
  2. Direct link to Guideline 2: Language and Symbols, which we covered in more detail during our meeting. 
  3. Making Web Content Digestible via bite, snack, and meal metaphors.
  4. Alt-Text as Poetry.
  5. Accessible Syllabus Project website. 
  6. Image section of the SPS Accessibility Toolkit. We encourage you to browse through the Toolkit (via Content in the upper right, or by clicking forward or backward in the blue bar at the bottom of the page) for more practical accessibility tips and how-to’s! 
  7. Future Topics Mentimeter – we’ve left this poll open so please feel free to add more ideas via the link!

Also, re-sharing from our last meeting:

  • Quick guide for creating accessible Word documents (PDF)
  • Checklist for accessible Word Documents (PDF)

CUNY UDL Collaborative

We forgot to mention this during our meeting… For context, our Community of Practice is part of the broader UDL Collaborative, an initiative created by the CUNY Office of Student Inclusion to foster accessibility and active learning across all CUNY campuses. To support this effort, the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy is offering a year-long asynchronous training course on UDL guidelines, for which you can register here.