Our personas were completed in the Fall of 2017 after a year long process, and since then they have been used in a variety of resources, trainings, and presentations. In March, 2019, the persona team gave a webinar explaining how and why we created these personas and how we are using them in different ways. Expand the hamburger menu to see the video chapters, which will allow you to jump to, or search for the information you want.
Training
- ACC110: Course Accessibility Basics — This is an internal training course for World Campus Learning Design staff developed by Sonya Woods and Matt Farley. The personas are included in the course and used throughout each lesson to highlight how each persona can benefit in different ways from things like accessible images, videos, tools, tables, and more.
- OL 2600: Course Authoring Accessibility Basics — An online faculty development course created by Sonya Woods and Matt Farley. The personas are used to show participants how creating accessible content in Canvas can benefit all students. If you are interested in taking this course you can enroll in an upcoming offering of OL 2600.
Presentations
Various members of the team have presented on the personas at the following events:
- UPCEA Mid-Atlantic 2017 Regional Conference (10/4/17)
- World Campus Academic Affairs’ Directors Meeting (12/14/17)
- 2018 UPCEA Annual Conference (3/15/18)
- Canvas Day (3/17/18)
- OOE TopicTALK (4/18/18)
- Accessible Learning Conference at Michigan State (12/7/18)
- Building the Disability Personas, a Penn State webinar (3/29/19)
- So Your University Wants to Go Online at the University of Pennsylvania (4/12/19)