What happens when accessibility meets innovation in higher education?
In this video, Shannon Brenner, instructional designer and faculty member at Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC), shares how her team used D2L Brightspace to build an accessibility hub that simplifies accommodations and supports students across multiple campuses.
You’ll see how Brightspace’s flexibility and built-in tools help institutions deliver personalized learning experiences and improve student engagement.
Key Takeaways:
- How NICC built an accessibility hub in Brightspace to centralize resources for students
- Using release conditions and groups to provide individualized access to course materials
- Leveraging Brightspace tools like ReadSpeaker for accessible textbook files
- Creative ways to expand LMS use beyond academics, including career and transfer hubs
"We wanted to make that process more streamlined and easier to manage, so we developed one course that we could use as a hub." — Shannon Brenner