When posting your syllabus online, think about how you can make it more accessible. One way to do this is to make it function better with screen reader software. Students who are blind or visually impaired may use this software to read your syllabus.
Simply uploading a PDF of your syllabus may be the least accessible option. While there are ways to make a PDF accessible, it is highly dependent on how the PDF is created. Word files stand a better chance of being accessible. However, their major disadvantage is that students may need to go through several steps to view your syllabus: downloading it, leaving Moodle to open Word, and finally opening your syllabus. At best, this is an inconvenience for the students. At worst, this may be impossible if a student doesn’t have access to Word; for example, a student may be viewing your course on a phone.
The most straightforward way to put an accessible copy of your syllabus on Moodle is to post it as an HTML file. If you already have your syllabus in Microsoft Word, we have a tutorial for converting it into an HTML file on Moodle that preserves the content while still being accessible. Or, you can create your syllabus from scratch in a Moodle page. If you do, be sure to use the menu in the text editor to differentiate your headers from your text:
