Instructional Resources

• Join the Faculty Accessibility Center in Canvasthis "course" will help you identify the main aspects of accessibility and implement them in your materials. Includes information about the accessibility checker in Canvas, UDOIT.
• Faculty Resources in ACCESS (Accessibility Resource Centers for Students, formerly DSPS): This includes info about accommodations for students, ACCESS support for classroom presentations, and information about the facilitated professional learning course taught by Grace Hanson, "Accommodating Students with Disabilities in the Classroom."
• Mt. SAC Accessibility Resources this web page hosted by Mt. SAC IT will help you make web pages and documents accessible. Also, find a service to review your documents for accessibility and offer feedback on accessibility at Mt. SAC.

• NEW! AccessibilityOz Document Remediation Service for Mt. SAC faculty. Submit your Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files to be made accessible. Files must be instructor created; no publisher content, copyrighted content, or other external sources. This service is not a verification tool; if you have already attempted to make your content accessible, ask FCLT staff about other tools to accomplish a verification check.
• Video Captioning Services Free captioning services available to Mt. SAC faculty for any video used for instruction.

• UDL Guidelines "a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn"
• UDL Center "a hub for researchers, educators, innovators, and learners around the world to share resources, spread new ideas, and cultivate a dynamic, effective UDL field"
• UDL-Universe A Comprehensive Universal Design for Learning Faculty Development Guide 

• Accessify tools and wizards to help with accessibility issues 
• Section 508 Refresh Learn how the 2018 updates to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act affect public colleges
• Web Accessibility Initiative how to make your web materials more accessible
• WAVE accessibility checker scans web pages for accessibility
• The National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) in Special Education through Technology, Media, and Materials
• International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) Index of ICDRI Disability Resources

• OpenStax offers free (digital) or low-cost (print), faculty-developed, peer reviewed, high-quality OER textbooks
• MERLOT free OER rated and reviewed by California professors. 
• OER Commons find or build OER here.
• California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI) OER information and resources
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources "a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources"
• Open Education Consortium global network for the open education movement

• UDL Guidelines "a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn"
• UDL Center "a hub for researchers, educators, innovators, and learners around the world to share resources, spread new ideas, and cultivate a dynamic, effective UDL field"
• UDL-Universe A Comprehensive Universal Design for Learning Faculty Development Guide 

• U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index
• Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use Center 
• Fair Use Best Practices 
• Learn about Copyright on Youtube (video)
• Copyright Request Template

• Screencastomatic screencast recorder
• Screencastify screencast recorder
• ConferZoom Free Zoom-based web conferencing (available within and outside of Canvas)
• Video Captioning Services Free captioning services available to Mt. SAC faculty for any video used for instruction.
• Mt. SAC Video Library Did you know that our library has licensed and captioned video content that you can use in your courses? Find out more here. 
• Wikimedia Commons Over 50 million freely usable media files.

• Mt. SAC Library Image Resources links to multiple image sources
• Unsplash Free high-resolution photos submitted by users
• Pixabay This site offers free images and vectors to visually enhance your teaching materials.
• Creative Commons search Creative Commons licenses are an alternative to copyright and allow people to share their materials. Search materials that are available for use. 
• Pixlr This program is a web-based free photo editor that has received good reviews in educational emedia.
• New York Public Library Collection free photos from the public domain collection. 
• More free photos! a list of many more sites can be found here. 

Royalty-free music:

• Mt. SAC library Audio Resources links to multiple audio sources
• Open Music Library (OML)  
• Free Sound
• Libre music sharing community
• Incompetech
• Legal Music for Videos Creative Commons list of additional free music sources 

Sign up for an in person workshop. Once we receive 6 sign-ups for a specific workshop, we will email those professors to coordinate a date and time that works best with their schedules.

Visit our workshops page for more details.

We can work with your department to schedule a custom workshop. 

Email fclt@mtsac.edu or call (909) 274-5016 to coordinate a workshop.

Stop by with your question during our office hours:

Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:00 - 4:00 PM

6-262 (top of left stairwell on south side of building)

Make an appointment with one of our FCLT staff.

Instructional Designers: Michelle Newhart and Eva Figueroa

Computer Technician: Hugo Aguilera

Email fclt@mtsac.edu or call (909) 274-5016 to schedule an appointment.

We welcome walk-ins and can meet with you, our schedules permitting, M-Th 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.