The Accessibility+ Course level dashboard provides instructors with an overall accessibility score for their course and a summary of individual content scores.
This topic explains how instructors can access the Accessibility+ Course Dashboard, understand its findings, and use available information to ensure your course materials are accessible to every learner.
Important: This feature is part of the D2L Accessibility+ for Brightspace add-on solution that must be purchased separately. For more information, contact your system administrator.
Permissions
To access the Accessibility+ Course Dashboard, users must have the Manage Content permission. This typically applies to instructors or course designers.
Access Accessibility+
To open the dashboard, select Accessibility+ from the course navbar.
Note: An administrator must add Accessibility+ to the course navbar before it can be used.
Dashboard View
At the top of the dashboard, the course name and overall accessibility score are displayed, followed by a list of course content items. Each item includes its individual score, content type, and the date it was last audited. The overall score is calculated as the average of all scored content items in the course.
Visual Tour of Course Dashboard
- Overall Course Score: The overall score is calculated as an average of all scored content items in the course, excluding content with No Score. Note: If the score does not update in the dashboard, simply refresh the page.
- Title - the title of the content item. Clicking on the title will open the course content in a new window.
- Score - the current accessibility score of the asset. If an item shows No Score, the instructor must click the item title to open it and initiate a scan by selecting the Accessibility+ icon. Once scanned, the instructor can navigate back to the dashboard to view the updated asset and overall course score.
- Course Material - describes the type of asset. At present we can can only scan Content, but as additional activities are added to Accessibility+, they will be listed here.
- Last Audited - provides the date and time of the last accessibility scan for each asset.
- Filter and Search: Instructors are able to filter the content overview by Course Material or by Last Audited Date and can use the search bar to find a specific asset.