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By now, you鈥檝e learned all about how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.

In this final installment, we are taking a look at the letter E in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Editor Tips and Tricks.  We know that working with any online text editor can present some challenges, so we鈥檇 like to share the team鈥檚 favorite tips and tricks for working with the Rich Content Editor (RCE) more efficiently. 

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Welcome back to the IMPROVE series of Quick Tips.  Today we鈥檙e looking at the letter V in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for UniVersal Design Tips.  Okay, yes, we took some liberties with that one, but bear with us -- acronyms are tricky to come up with!

We鈥檝e focused the last few weeks on creating page content via text and various kinds of media.  We鈥檝e touched on accessibility throughout, but we wanted to take a week to highlight universal design strategies that can help make your Canvas content accessible not only for those with differing abilities, but for ALL learners.

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Welcome back to Part 5 of our IMPROVE series. We鈥檙e on to the letter O in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Other Content Types.

Last time, we discussed how to use the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to present textual content within Pages in your Canvas courses. In Part 5, we will expand on embedding other types of content and media.

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Welcome back to Part 4 of our IMPROVE series.  We鈥檙e on to the letter R in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Rich Content Editor (RCE).

So far, we鈥檝e created a modular course structure and begun creating individual Pages to house our content. Now it鈥檚 finally time to start adding the text, files, links, images, videos, and more that make up your online course content.  

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Welcome back to Part 2 of our IMPROVE series.  If you recall our acronym from our last post, you鈥檒l remember that the M in IMPROVE stands for Modules Overview.  In this post, we will discuss the purpose of modules, how students navigate them, and how to create a module structure in your own courses.

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In this 7-part series, we will cover how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.  While we delve into these tools, we鈥檒l also discuss how utilizing them in certain ways can improve course organization, simplify navigation, and increase accessibility and usability of your content.

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Course accessibility is a time-sensitive activity.  Throughout the course's development, you can take small steps to make course materials accessible, so when a student needs accommodation, it is available. Captioning videos can even help students who do not have an accommodation, for instance, if they do not know how to spell a term, cannot have the volume on, or simply learn better by reading.

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The words accessibility and accommodations are often used when discussing how to make online content available to every person in the class. You may want to file this information away for future reference since students can request SAS accommodations anytime during the semester.

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