Wednesday, September 9, 2009

CSM Standard Web Course Statements

Below is the code needed for the college's official ADA statement. This statement should be posted on footer of the Course Content Home Page:

Blackboard regularly measures and evaluates accessibility levels using a third party to ensure compliance, continually auditing the Blackboard code and user interface design techniques to ensure that applications are usable by everyone, to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age, ability, or situation. Blackboard measures and evaluates accessibility levels using two sets of standards: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act issued from the United States federal government and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Should students requiring special (ADA) accommodations have difficulties accessing online course materials, they should contact ADA services at the College of Southern Maryland at 301-934-7657 or visit http://www.csmd.edu/Studentsuccess/ADA/index.html

This is the college's copyright statement which should be displayed on the footer of the Learning Modules folder:


Materials used in connection with this course may be subject to copyright protection. Federal law provides that persons are prohibited from violating the rights of copyright holders. Violations may be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties including substantial fines and incarceration. More information about copyright law, from the United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress, can be found here: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf