Fall 2026 Updates

The leaves are turning, the parking lots are filling back up, and somewhere out there a syllabus is being finalized at 11:58pm. Welcome back! Whether your course is fully dialed in or you’re eyeing one page you’ve been meaning to fix, Interactive eLearning is here to help. Grab a coffee (pumpkin spice optional) and let’s get you caught up.

We Create Online Learning That Builds Student Success

That’s not just a tagline, it’s the whole reason we exist. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Design — Student-centered course design, built on evidence-based standards.
• Interactivity — Engaging activities that turn static content into real learning.
• Media — Video and multimedia support that brings your course to life.
• Support — Live help, course troubleshooting, and student/faculty training.

Don’t Know Where to Start? Start Tiny.

You don’t need a whole course redesign. Just start with one thing.

Send us a single item; an assignment, a module intro, one clunky discussion post. We’ll reimagine it with your students in mind. Keep it, revise it, or toss it entirely. No commitment, no pressure!

A few things worth remembering while you’re at it:

• Our designers are instructors too. We’re not here to hijack your material or flatten your voice into something generic. We work with you, not around you.
• Good design is invisible — and that’s the point. Thoughtful design lowers cognitive load, which just means your students spend their energy on your content instead of fighting your Canvas shell.

Work with your Division Instructional Designer

Health Sciences, Education and Wellness 

• Jackie Hubbard — jackie.hubbard@bellevuecollege.edu 

• Lauren Psomostithis — lauren.psomostithis@bellevuecollege.edu

Arts and Humanities 

• George Rowe — george.rowe@bellevuecollege.edu

Social Science 

• Morgan Olson — molson@bellevuecollege.edu

Science 

• Raji Sundar — raji.sundar@bellevuecollege.edu

Connected Learning 

• Ron Austin — ron.austin@bellevuecollege.edu 

• Betsy Zahrt Geib — elizabeth.zahrtgeib@bellevuecollege.edu

The Logistics Nobody Loves But Everybody Needs

Consider this your quarter-start cheat sheet:

• New Canvas LTI? Submit a Service Desk ticket, and request it a full quarter ahead of when you need it. Also per Title II, any digital resource you choose has to be accessible, so factor that in early.
• Syllabus templates, so you’re not starting from a blank page: the Syllabus Template Guides, Word syllabus templates on SharePoint, or CidiLabs syllabus templates.
• Canvas shells for incompletes also require a Service Desk ticket, and you’ll need to coordinate with your publisher rep to make sure students keep access to materials.
• Teaching online this term? OETA training is required before you do.
• Exams and due dates need to live within your course’s published Canvas course dates — worth a quick double-check before you finalize your calendar.

DocAccess Has Landed in Canvas

Quick recap in case August feels like a different lifetime: as announced to all faculty on August 24, ITS has switched on DocAccess in Canvas, kicking off a one-year pilot through July 2027. Its job is simple: create an accessible HTML version of the PDFs in your course, on demand, while leaving the original documents unchanged.

Here’s the magic trick: find the gray DocAccess logo anywhere a file is linked or embedded in your course. Click it. Wait a bit (high traffic times can take longer) while it transcribes. Watch it turn green. Click the green version to land in the DocAccess viewer, where you can flip between the original Print Friendly View and the new Accessible Transcript View, plus search, print, and download.

It’s a genuinely useful tool, but it doesn’t run itself. Here’s where you come in:

• You’re the subject matter expert, so you’re the one who can catch it if the transcription gets something wrong or the image alt text needs fixing. Found an issue? Submit a DocAccess Service Desk ticket with ITS.
• You’re also the course designer, which means: please remove unnecessary, unpublished, or unused PDFs sitting in your course. Fewer PDFs, less AI transcription overhead. Where you can, swap PDFs for accessible Word or PowerPoint files instead.
• Making anything new? Try to skip the PDF format altogether going forward.
• And if you’re mid-remediation: DocAccess is a bridge, not a fix. It won’t repair an inaccessible PDF, but it does give you a working accessible version while you remediate ahead of the April 26, 2027 compliance deadline.

For more information, please visit the DocAccess guide and attend our DocAccess information sessions during our Fall Month of Microlearning this October.

You’re Not Doing Accessibility Alone

Digital accessibility can feel like a moving target, but you’ve got a whole team in your corner:

• Drop into our live Zoom support space — Monday through Friday, 11am–3pm. No appointment needed.
• Book 1-1 accessibility coaching for something more personalized.

Beyond live help, our website just got a refresh and is stocked with accessibility checklists to guide your work. And if you haven’t already, self-enroll in GAMEs (Guidance for Accessible Materials in Education) — our Canvas course covering the tools you’ll actually use: UDOIT, Ally, Canvas’s built-in accessibility checker, Word, PowerPoint, TidyUp, image alt text, video captions, and more.

October’s Coming: The Month of Microlearning Is Back

This year it’s a playground, not a lecture series. All month long, join us on Teams for short, 30-minute, low-stakes sessions where faculty and staff show off what they’ve tried, tested, and tinkered with in Canvas and beyond. Come to learn something. Come to steal an idea. Explore all the session and register today at our Fall 2026 Month of MicroLearning Blog.