Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A.) Introduction
(1) The college's goal Is compliance with
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act to make content and activities in the
online environment accessible to people with disabilities.
(2) "Online course" means
ninety to one hundred per cent
of the course is delivered online.
Participants can complete all course requirements without coming to campus.
Tests may be online or in a suitable proctored environment.
(3) "Blended course" means
thirty to ninety-eight per cent
of the course is delivered online.
The course combines online and face-to-face learning. Characterized by a
reduction in seat time, some on-ground, face-to-face sessions are replaced with
online learning. Web-based activities and content in a blended course or
program is in addition to classroom content. Both online and on-ground,
face-to-face sessions are required elements of a blended course.
(4) Web enhanced/supplemental" means no more
than
twenty-nine per cent of the course is delivered
online. This course meets on ground, in face to face sessions.
(5) Online and blended courses are conducted
in a paced and sequenced learning environment in which student to student
interaction and discussion contribute to the learning outcomes of the
course.
(B.) To certify
accessible content and activities, all existing online, blended, and web
enhanced/supplemental courses will implement the accessibility checklist within
two years. Online, blended, and web enhanced/supplemental courses existing at
the beginning of spring 2014 must be made fully compliant by the beginning of
spring 2016.
(1) The Accessibility Checklist
will be the standard for determining compliance.
(2) The accessibility checklist is authored
and revised by the Distance Learning Committee on a regular review
cycle.
(3) A satisfactorily
completed accessibility checklist will be evidence of course content and
activities meeting a minimum standard for certification and will be on file
with the dean/director.
(4) All new
courses will implement the accessibility checklist within one
semester.
(5) Upon meeting initial
compliance, courses will be audited for accessibility compliance according to a
determined schedule.
(C.)
Accommodations in online, blended, and web enhanced/supplemental courses within
a term will be met in all courses through collaboration between the Access
Office, the faculty member, and other related stakeholders as needed.
(1) Expectations for students: In order to
provide reasonable accommodation of a student's needs, formal notice of that
need (i.e. an official letter from the access
office) should be provided within a
reasonable length of time, preferably the first week of the term.
Accommodations will not be made retroactively.
(2) Any tools (such as rubrics to respond to
student assignments) used in the delivery of the course (not content and
materials) may be substituted with alternatives, depending of the nature of an
individual student's accommodation.
(D.) These college services are charged with
assisting faculty in the goal of full Accessibility compliance and in making
reasonable accommodations within a term.
(1)
Access office
(2) The office of
and
e-learning innovation
(3)
Academic excellence center
(4) The
office of teaching, learning,
and academic professional development
(5) Faculty accessibility coaches
(6) Deans/Directors
(E.) The president or the president's
designee is hereby directed to take all steps necessary and appropriate for the
effective implementation of this procedure.
Replaces: part of 3354:1-30-02
