• Online Education Resources for Leeward CC Instructors
• Leeward CC Online Course Examples – A gallery of videos where Leeward CC online instructors highlight the design features of their online courses.
  • Excellence in Online Teaching Award (EOTA) – 2020 to current
  • Innovative Online Teaching Award (IOTA) – 2014 to 2019
• Online Teaching Resources by UHOIC – A collection of frequently accessed resources for teaching online from the UH Online Innovation Center.

Google@UH is the University of Hawaiʻi’s Google Workspace suite of Google apps. Our UH accounts (@hawaii.edu) are Google accounts, allowing us to access to Google’s Core Apps such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites.

• Help Center
• Google @ UH Gmail FAQs
• Enable Google @ UH Consumer Apps for more Google apps such as Blogger, YouTube, and more.
• Google Gemini Help
• Google NotebookLM Help
• Specific How-Tos
  • How to re-use a Google Form but have the responses go into a new sheet of the existing response sheet
  • How to sync your Google @ UH account to your mobile device
  • How to import your student roster from MyUH into Gmail Contacts
  • How to use the new Google Sites

• Standard/Accessible Syllabus templates
  • Leeward CC
  • University of Hawaiʻi
  • Leeward CC Syllabus Notification Statements
• Visual Syllabus template
  • Leeward CC
• AI Course Expectations – Information you can customize to include in the AI section of your syllabus

• OER @ Leeward
• OER LibGuide for Leeward – What is OER?, find open textbooks and courses, guides, repositories, collections, how to create and share OER, OER licensing, and more.
• OER @ University of Hawai‘i

Accessibility removes barriers that might prevent students from fully participating. Accessibility focuses on making sure students can access content or environments. (Universal Design for Learning (UDL) goes further by designing learning experiences that are flexible and work well for all learners from the start.)

• 10 Tips for Accessible Websites – Simple tips you can start with immediately compiled by Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology.
• Accessible Syllabus – Short videos created by Accessible U on practical suggestions to make your syllabus as accessible as possible.
• Accessibility Checklist from University of Washington is a leader in the Accessible Technology area. This checklist is a great reference for providing accessible web-based resources including electronic documents in Word, PDF, and other formats.
  • Creating Accessible Documents
  • Creating Accessible Videos
  • Creating Accessible Websites
• Accessibility Handbook from Portland Community College. It is a great resource with easy-to-follow guidelines on web accessibility, accessible slides, documents, PDFs, video, audio, and images.
• Best Practices for Educators and Instructors Best practices to ensure the accessibility of self-created educational materials and presentations.
• Best Practices for More Accessible Social Media
• How to Write Meaningful Alt-Text – How to convey context and meaning without writing an essay!
• National Center on Disability and Access to Education Cheat Sheets – One-page accessibility resources on MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe, YouTube.
• Perform OCR on a Scanned Document
• UH COE Accessibility Toolkit – modified by UH College of Education, based on an Accessibility Toolkit developed by BCcampus and CAPER-BC. The Accessibility Toolkit is a resources for content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, teaching assistant to create open and accessible digital content.
• WebAIM – training and resources to make web content accessible to people with disabilities
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Quick Reference

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework designed to make learning accessible and effective for all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds. The idea is to create flexible learning environments that can accommodate different ways of thinking, processing information, and engaging with content. The goal is to remove barriers to learning and allow every student the opportunity to succeed. (Accessibility ensures access while UDL improves learning for everyone.)

• CAST Professional Learning – leading organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
  • UDL Guidelines
  • UDL Progression Rubric
  • UDL Tips for Learning Environments
  • UDL Tips for Designing an Engaging Learning Environment
  • UDL Tips for Fostering Expert Learners
  • UDL Tips for Assessments
  • UDL Tips for Developing Learning Goals
  • UDL Tips for Designing Learning Experiences
• The Iris Center – application of UDL in four curricular components (goals, instructional materials, instructional methods, and assessments). Targeted toward K-12
• UDL on Campus – resources on applying UDL to Higher Education Environment, including examples, videos from UDL practitioners, and UDL course design, Accessible media

In the event of a disruptive event that prompts the campus to move classes online, this guide will help you transition your face-to-face instruction to distance-delivered (or remote) instruction in the simplest way possible to ensure continuity of your face-to-face class.

Access the Teaching Continuity Guide