Accessibility (FAQs) By Learning Platform

Moodle is a web-based learning platform with short courses.  Courses include Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Digital Skills, and Employment readiness.  

You can do preparation for Ontario Secondary School Credit courses, GED, College, Apprenticeship, and complete Personal Management courses.  

Check out our course catalogue for more details.  We develop all the content on Moodle and are committed to improving and enhancing the accessibility of our products.  All content created over the last several years aligns with the accessibility standards mentioned below.  We do ongoing testing and review of our older curriculum as we work to get all content up to this standard.  If you find something that doesn’t support your needs, please let us know.

Yes, use the Chrome Browser for the best results.  Most content scales to size for the device.  

Please note that on a phone some the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read.  Learners prefer tablets or computers, only using their phone occasionally.

ReadSpeaker has a multi-language translation feature that includes the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese(Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian(Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Portuguese(Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

We strive to have all text meet WAG 2.0 AA colour contrast standards to meet the needs of users with visual difficulties and colour blindness.

  
Moodle has a ReadSpeaker text-to-speech tool that reads text out loud to users and alt-text for images but also has tools for enlarging text, and a page mask bar that you can move to highlight the lines being read.  You can personalize reading speed, set highlighting preferences, and font style, size, and colours.

Closed captions are included in videos. Read Speaker has a MP3 download feature to allow you to listen to text offline.

Brightspace is a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) with core subjects in Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies.  

It’s a virtual learning environment to prepare for Secondary School Credit courses, CAEC, College, Apprenticeship, and Personal Management.  

Check out our course catalogue for more details.

You can access the full Brightspace site directly through your device's web browser (Safari or Chrome). This offers the same functionality as a desktop computer.

Please note that on a phone some of the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read. Learners prefer tablets or computers, only using their phone occasionally. 

The integrated ReadSpeaker webReader offers a translation tool that allows you to highlight text within Brightspace and translate it. ReadSpeaker has a multi-language translation feature that includes the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese(Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian(Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Portuguese(Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Images in Brightspace have a zoom and magnification button. Open in a new tab or full-screen view buttons are available on content pages, allowing the user to increase the size of content, text, and images.

ReadSpeaker text-to-speech tool reads text out loud to users and provides alt-text for images, but also has tools for enlarging text, and a page mask bar that you can move to highlight the lines being read.  You can personalize reading speed, set highlighting preferences, and font style, size, and colours.

Closed captions are included in videos. Read Speaker has a MP3 download feature to allow you to listen to text offline.

Spellzone is an online English spelling resource used by students aged six to adult.

It unlocks the mystery of Canadian, British, and American English spelling and adapts to all abilities. Including SEND, SLD, ESL students and those with dyslexia.

Students can work on tailored learning pathways at their own pace and on any device.  Spellzone teaches basic phonic spelling rules using multi-sensory activities and tests.

Yes, most content scales to size for the device.  

Please note that on a phone some of the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read.

Words can be translated to 92 different languages via a Dictionary Option search.

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese Simplified(Voice), Chinese Traditional(Voice), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch(Voice), Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French(Voice), Galician, Georgian, German(Voice), Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi(Voice), Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian(voice), Irish, Italian(voice), Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean(voice), Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Māori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish(voice), Portuguese(voice), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian(voice), Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish(voice), Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.

Spellzone has features to choose background and text colour, font style, font size and letter spacing.  It also has a text-to-speech function.

Spellzone has Listen and Spell test learning using audio, which could not be done by someone needing auditory accommodations.