Organizing your unit in a way that supports the learning needs and styles of all users can be a difficult task. Your learning materials need to engage, educate, evaluate, and accommodate people effectively.

Set clear unit expectations

There are some design decisions you can make that will help all learners use your online unit effectively:

• Use the Content Overview page to help familiarize your learners with your unit content.
• Add your unit study guide to the Content Overview page. This helps all users clearly understand your unit expectations up front. Link each study guide item to the actual item in your unit. This provides a navigation shortcut to important content and helps students with learning disabilities clearly see how unit content relates to unit expectations.
• Set up enumerations in the Content tool's Settings to establish a clear hierarchy in your unit content. Well-defined unit structure is easier to navigate for screen reader users and learners with learning disabilities.

Make time limits and deadlines flexible

Provide readings well in advance of deadlines so users can work ahead and prepare. Many learners need the extra time to read through content multiple times. If you use release conditions to control when to release unit content on a module by module basis, make sure you give learners plenty of time to complete each component.