Time for spring cleaning! Prep now and make importing your courses in the fall easier. One way to clean up your Canvas site is to use TidyUP, which will also improve your accessibility score! TidyUP gets rid of old files that are cluttering up your modules and folders (many of which may not be accessible and are bringing down your Ally score of their accessibility). If you import your course from previous semesters and just keep adding new files without cleaning up old ones, lots of old files full of inaccessible materials (especially images and PDFs) can pile up in your Canvas courses and Ally will read them as inaccessible, whether or not you or your students are using them. Similarly, your students may find old files or older versions of files and get confused or be misled. TidyUP is a tool that is free to use, which you can load into your canvas course to help you remove only the files that you are not using (TidyUP will not and cannot delete a file that is linked to content in your course). It’s simple to use. For more directions, come to our workshop on accessibility, or read our past blog post and/or our Knowledge Base article, watch How-To videos from Cidi Labs, or contact the CITL with questions or for a personal teaching consultation.
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