Use these resources to design learning environments that reduce unnecessary barriers, make expectations and academic norms visible, support belonging, and help all students participate in rigorous learning. Inclusive design complements, rather than replaces, approved disability accommodations.
Start Here: Inclusive Teaching Frameworks
Start here for broad frameworks that connect inclusive teaching to course design, classroom practice, belonging, and academic rigor.
- University of Michigan CRLT: Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies - Explore definitions, research, reflective tools, and practical strategies for supporting students across identities, backgrounds, and disciplines.
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center: How to Enhance Inclusivity and Belonging in Teaching - Find concrete, discipline-spanning examples organized around course design, assessment, content, discussion, group work, grading, and feedback.
- Georgetown CNDLS: Academic Excellence and Equity - Consider how flexibility, clarity, and barrier reduction can support rigorous and meaningful learning rather than lower expectations.
LMU Accessibility and Accommodation Resources
Use these LMU resources to provide approved accommodations and improve the accessibility of digital course materials.
- LMU Disability Support Services: For Faculty - Review faculty responsibilities, accommodation procedures, syllabus language, classroom guidance, and ways to contact DSS.
- LMU ITS: Make Courses Accessible with Panorama - Use LMU's Brightspace-integrated accessibility platform to identify and remediate issues and provide alternative formats for students.
- LMU ITS: Closed Captioning and Transcription - Find support for captioning and transcription as both an accessibility requirement and a Universal Design for Learning practice.
Inclusive, Accessible, and Student-Centered Assignment Design
Use these resources to reduce hidden expectations, expand access, and design assignments that support a wider range of learners.
- CAST UDL Guidelines - Use Universal Design for Learning to consider multiple ways students can engage with, practice, and demonstrate learning.
- Every Learner Everywhere: Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning - Use equity-minded principles to examine how assignment design can support access, belonging, and student success.