Canvas: Use UDOIT for Creating Accessible Content

Environment

Canvas
UDOIT

Issue

Information and support for the UDOIT Canvas LTI.

Resolution

Introducing UDOIT

UDOIT stands for Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool. UDOIT is an accessibility auditing tool for Canvas that was created by the University of Central Florida. This tool scans your Canvas course, generates a report of accessibility issues that could impede your students' ability to learn, and provides resources for addressing these issues. The goal of UDOIT is offer a mechanism to automatically check the accessibility of Canvas course content, and to provide learning resources to assist users in applying accessibility fixes in order to benefit all learners.

UDOIT can scan individual courses, and checks the Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, HTML file uploads, Module URLs, Pages, and Syllabus areas in your course. UDOIT can be run multiple times on the same course and can be used to check accessibility after adding new content into your course.  The tool is not visible to students.

YuJa Panorama is the new enterprise Canvas Accessibility tool that will replace UDOIT Spring/Summer 2025.  

How Can I Use UDOIT In My Course?

• View these tutorials on how to use UDOIT
• Check out these self-paced Canvas modules on how to use UDOIT.

How Can I Get Help?

Contact your local instructional support unit, or fill out an instructional consultation request form for ITS's Teaching & Learning team.

Support

Contact the Accessibility Team for complex questions. 

Additional Information

• Check out the new Academic Technology@Michigan website for course planning resources from across U-M.
• Visit the Canvas @ Michigan site for faculty including the U-M Instructor Guide with links to additional support resources from across campus.
• Check out the Canvas and MiVideo tutorials.

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center.