Digital Tools for Content Adaptation in Higher Education

3. Digital tools for creating accessible digital content

Canva is a simple online platform for creating graphic content. With numerous templates, images, and fonts, it allows for the creation of presentations, infographics, posters, social media graphics, and the like.

Infogram is a tool for creating adaptable online charts, data visualizations, and posters.

Nearpod enables educators to create interactive lessons with quizzes, polls, and videos, encouraging active student participation. By embedding assessments into the lessons, Nearpod allows for tracking student progress. Students benefit from engaging content, personalized learning methods, and opportunities to collaborate with peers, whether during class or in an online environment.

Genially is used to create interactive presentations, infographics, quizzes, and other visual content. It allows users to add animations and interactive elements to static content, making it more appealing, and requires no coding or design skills.

Mentimeter is interactive presentation software that allows educators and students to add live polls, quizzes, and questions to their presentations. Participants use their smartphones or other devices to respond, and the results are visualized in real-time, making the class more engaging and enabling the collection of immediate feedback. 

Miro AI is an advanced set of generative artificial intelligence features integrated directly into Miro's visual workspace. It is designed to help users brainstorm ideas, plan and manage projects by automating routine tasks and efficiently creating content. It is capable of automatically generating new ideas, creating images from text and drafting various diagrams, which greatly accelerates the conversion of initial ideas into concrete action plans. Instructions for initial users are on Create with AI.

Zoho Show is a cloud-based presentation tool that allows users to create, edit and collaborate on presentations. It offers features such as templates, animations, and the ability to broadcast presentations live to a remote audience.

Zia AI in Zoho Show can transform an idea into a visually appealing presentation in just a few seconds. Whether you are starting from scratch or refining existing content, Zia AI assists with writing, designing and enhancing slides.

Lexie is an application for comfortable reading and learning. All materials are arranged for the most pleasant reading — or they are read aloud by Lexie. It is perfect for students with dyslexia and reading difficulties. It speeds up and simplifies the preparation and adaptation of books and school materials for educators.

w3Lexie has tools for every reading style, especially for students who have dyslexia, difficulties with reading, focus, or attention, but also for those who want to adapt the text for more comfortable reading.

The Accessibility Checker tool in Microsoft 365 reviews content and flags accessibility issues. It explains why each issue may be a potential problem for someone with special needs. The Accessibility Checker also suggests ways to resolve the problems identified. In Word, the Accessibility Checker runs automatically in the background when a document is created. If the Accessibility Checker detects accessibility issues, you will receive a reminder on the Status Bar. To run the Accessibility Checker manually, select File > Check Accessibility. The Accessibility pane will open. Accessibility tools for Word

The Discover Windows accessibility features page describes the accessibility features in Windows.

Instructions for Creating and Checking Accessibility (in Croatian) for MS Word and PDF documents.

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