Getting ready for a class or conference presentation? Get tips on the best practices for designing, delivering, and assessing audience members in your presentations. Though focused primarily on Microsoft PowerPoint, we'll also touch a bit on Google Slides and Microsoft Sway. We’ll give you tips on how to not use endless bullet points, find good-quality images, and how to organize your presentation to keep your audience awake and make them understand that you are the expert, not your slides.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Create and design more engaging presentations
• Apply design techniques to make presentations more accessible
• Practice techniques for delivering presentations online or in-person

Designing for accessibility is the process of proactively creating materials that are usable by the full range of potential end users. This often means making sure that materials and communications can be accessed, perceived, used, and understood by people who use different interfaces or tools, and/or who have relevant disabilities. Designing for accessibility almost always benefits many people including those who do not have relevant disabilities.

Here at the University of Tennessee, our policy is to ensure that all learning materials are accessible. This course introduces best practices that you can begin applying immediately to ensure accessibility and usability of learning materials and communications.

You will learn how to:

• create accessible documents and PowerPoint presentations
• identify tools and resources for closed captioning
• use the Read&Write software, for which UT Knoxville has a site license
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This self-paced course will give you the opportunity to learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL advocates for accessible and inclusive instructional approaches that meet the needs and abilities of diverse learners. After completing this course, you will be able to design engaging, effective, and accessible courses using the Canvas features and other technology tools.

Learning outcomes

• Define the main concepts of UDL
• Identify a three-step process for implementing the UDL principles in designing and developing instruction and assessment
• Utilize Canvas and other technology tools to design a flexible learning environment that presents instructional content and communication via alternate media and formats
• Identify strategies and tools for facilitating mastery-oriented feedback; learner organization, self-management, and study skills; and collaboration.