Pack your toolkit and step into a more inclusive learning experience as we spotlight a course designed to make accessibility visible, practical, and empowering inside Brightspace.
What to Expect
Learn about a Practical, Ready-to-Use Tool 🌟
This course introduces the Learning Preferences Tool, a student-centred resource built directly into Brightspace. It creates one consistent place where students can explore supports that match how they learn best.
Instead of guessing what might help, students can easily access clearly organized options that make learning more comfortable, effective, and personalized.
Understand Learning Preferences 🧠
The course begins by grounding participants in what learning preferences actually are: They’re not about ability, they’re about access, comfort, and effectiveness.
Participants explore how preferences help students:
- Focus better
- Access content in meaningful ways
- Use supportive tools confidently
- Take ownership of their learning
Explore the 9 Learning Preferences 🧭
At the heart of the tool are nine student-friendly pathways, each designed around a specific learning need:
- I want to focus 🎯
- I prefer to listen 🎧
- I prefer to speak 🎤
- I prefer to read 📖
- I prefer to write ✏️
- I don't use a mouse 🐭
- I use a screen reader 🔊
- I prefer large text 🔎
- I speak another language 🌏
Each page follows a consistent structure, making it easy for students to navigate, reducing cognitive load, and improving accessibility across the course.
Build It Yourself 🛠️
This isn’t just theory, you’ll actually build the tool.
Through step-by-step guidance, participants will learn how to:
- Create all 9 learning preference pages
- Maintain consistent, accessible design
- Build a jump bar navigation for easy movement between pages
- Add the tool directly into the course navbar
By the end, you’ll have a fully functional, ready-to-use tool in your own Brightspace course.
Downloadable Export Package Available! 📦
To bring the Learning Preferences Tool to life in your Brightspace instance quickly and easily, the course includes a downloadable export package.
This package contains everything you need: pages, navigation, widgets, and folder structure. It's ready to import so you can hit the ground running without rebuilding from scratch.
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Languages Available: English
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