Online Teaching

Online teaching and learning starts with planning and is followed by properly executed building. The goal is to reach all of your students, even when each one has different educational needs and experiences.

Plan

• A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a framework to start planning a varied experience for your students. Moving beyond the technology, Universal Design is the framework that provides all students equal opportunities to learn. This is completed by providing flexible, inclusive, varied, and accessible materials to reach all students regardless of their learning needs and preferences. 
  
  
• The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) establishes standards for planning, building, and delivering quality online courses. The Lehman Center for Teaching and Learning uses these standards in our Course Design Institute. We encourage you to also use these standards to check your own online course.
  
  

Build

Digital accessibility is crucial when adding information to the internet. Making all content accessible can feel overwhelming, especially if you are updating pre-existing content, but CUNY has created Disability Accessibility Booklet and put together a self-paced training course through Blackboard guide you on making the most common forms of content accessible and offers the questions you should ask yourself before including content in your course. 

You can find more on CUNY LEADS, Project REACH & ASD, and CUNY Unlimited at the CUNY Disability & Accessibility Services section of the CUNY.edu website.

Blackboard has a number of accessibility options. Click the links below to learn more.

• Blackboard Accessibility 
• CUNY/Blackboard Accessibility Information
• Accessibility Features in Blackboard Learn
• ALLY

Note: Lehman College will be switching from Blackboard to Brightspace beginning Summer 2025.