Make Courses Accessible with Panorama

What It Is

Panorama is a content remediation system that helps instructors control the formatting of their learning material so it meets digital accessibility standards. With remediated course content, students get access to subject matter in ways that meet their unique user needs. Panorama works within Brightspace where it reviews information for the purpose of finding accessibility issues. It offers solutions, provides formatting alternatives (such as audio, ePub, HTML, mobile, electronic braille), and most importantly, automates workflows. For each individual student, Panorama increases options and reduces barriers.

How It Works

Panorama scans the content in a Brightspace course and guides faculty in how to bring it up to proper standards.

Will Panorama automatically fix accessibilities?

Panorama provides diagnostics, suggestions, and in some cases automated fixes—but it does not replace faculty judgment. It acts as your accessibility assistant, giving step-by-step recommendations and real-time guidance on remediating issues inside the LMS. Faculty maintain control over which fixes to prioritize and when. It is best when the decision-making process is intentional.

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Benefits for Faculty

Instructors can take advantage of Panorama's features to ensure their digital content meets accessibility standards. Faculty can:

Use auto-fix tools to make sweeping corrections
Use edit-in-place tools to correct as you go
Choose which alternative formats to show or hide
Gauge accessibility of overall course, or file-by-file
Privately view reports and analytics about your course

Panorama Pilot Program

LMU is running a pilot of Panorama to help faculty improve accessibility issues in their Brightspace courses. Faculty are invited to help evaluate Panorama by requesting to enable it in one of your courses. Faculty participants will make reasonable improvements and provide feedback to ITS about the teaching and learning experience while using Panorama.

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Commitment to Accessibility

LMU is committed to providing inclusive environments and equitable learning experiences to everyone. As part of the mission to support a spectrum of learning needs, instructors are encouraged to ensure that their digital content meets accessibility standards and offers universally accommodating options.

To assist instructors in the process of remediating digital content, LMU is offering Panorama. Its automated features can give instructors tools such as real-time reports about their course's accessibility level, plus ways they can start making improvements. Likewise, Panorama can give students choices about how they want to receive a course's content.

To try Panorama, request to join the pilot.

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