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About our services

The Instructional Web Project (IWP) team is a part of the Office of Faculty Communications, within the Teaching & Learning Excellence Division (TLED). The team’s primary functions are:

  • Give current ACC students a seamless web experience as they navigate instructional programs online to access the information and resources needed for their continued success

  • Make student-facing ACCessible, inclusive, and user-friendly digital products for academic departments that in turn empower faculty to promote increased student success and persistence.

  • Build websites and web applications to facilitate instruction.

Learn more about Our Services and see Our Portfolio for more insight into our work.

Our priority is working with academic departments to redesign their websites to ensure that they meet accessibility standards and align with ACC’s branding guidelines. Additionally, we work with instructors and departmental staff to create new student-facing websites and apps.

We also work with departments to meet other instructional digital needs:


We are available to hear about the work being done by your department and discuss potential student-facing digital tools that will contribute to the increased academic success of our Riverbats.

We are available to hear about your instructional practices and discuss potential student-facing digital tools that will contribute to increased academic success of our Riverbats.
 
Below are some examples of work website we’ve created to support Faculty & Staff in these projects:

Faculty and Staff that work to meet the instructional needs of students, via digital solutions.

Our digital tools target current Students & Faculty.

About our processes

We do all of the technical work and provide ongoing support for the life of your student-facing instructional digital project.

Request

  • Submit an online project request form for a website or app that will relieve a pain point or bring your Riverbat–worthy idea to life.

Review

  • Your project will be reviewed by IWP staff.
  • If it is approved as a student-facing instructional digital project, it will be added to the queue.
  • If the parameters of a project request fall beyond our scope, IWP will refer the project to the appropriate team or suggest an alternative resource.

Consult

  • Once your project’s status has been updated from “in queue” to “active,” a member of the team will contact you to participate in an intake meeting.

Approve

  • IWP will provide a project draft to you for your feedback and approval (this may involve several rounds of drafts and/or feedback review, depending on the project).

Launch & Maintain

  • Once your project has launched, we are available for future updates, edits, redesigns, and website maintenance.

No, content drives the design of your website or digital tool. We recommend that you create a Shared Folder on Google Drive to provide content, charts, graphs, pictures, videos, etc. for your new website/digital tool.

We also offer a way for you to submit design and/or content files in your initial submission, via our Request a Service form.

If you need support with organizing content, Instructional Designers are available to provide that service.

No. The main benefit of using Google Sites is that it allows the owner to have control and easy access to make edits and updates in real-time.
There are a number of resources that you can utilize to get support, take self-directed training, or otherwise find a ‘jumping on point’ for your Google Site work:


In addition to the above, the Educational Technology Support Team are available to provide basic technical support, but they will not create your website for you.

For technical issues related to a Google Site, please submit a Mojo ticket to the IT Department.

About your website

If you answer no to one or more of the questions below, request our services today.

  • Is it consistent with the ACC branding standards?
  • Is it responsive for mobile viewing?
  • Is it designed to meet accessibility requirements?
  • Do you need expert web design assistance?

Request our redesign services to start the review of your department’s website for digital accessibility. At a minimum, your department and/or program’s website should:

  • Be keyboard and/or multi-input accessible
  • Have screen-reader friendly layouts & elements
  • Have appropriate color-blind friendly color palettes
  • Have alternative text descriptions for media and interactive elements
Yes, clients can be granted editor-level access to their websites to make content changes independently. However, we are also available to complete updates. Updates are completed within 5 business days.

We are minimizing the level of access to ensure the technical health, security, and accessibility of all websites that are hosted on our server. We are happy to work in partnership with you to create a website or digital tool that meets your expectations; however, our current guidelines will supersede client requests that fall outside of our governing parameters.

We evaluate and minimize the number of plug-ins to ensure the technical health, security, and accessibility of all websites that are hosted on our server.

No, all websites that are hosted on our server will be designed, maintained, and governed by the Instructional Web team. We are minimizing the level of access to ensure the technical health, security, and accessibility of all websites that are hosted on our server.

We are happy to work in partnership with your developer; however, our current guidelines will supersede external requests that fall outside of our governing parameters.

Want more information about Instructional Web?

View Our Services

View Our Portfolio

Meet our Team

Looking for something else?

View related and similar groups within the college, via the options below:

Teaching & Learning Excellence Division

Office of Faculty Communications

Office of College Relations & Marketing

Instructional Web Projects

Office of Faculty Communications

Teaching & Learning Excellence
Division (TLED)

Have another question?

Need additional assistance, want to submit feedback or not sure where to start?

Contact the Instructional Web Projects team via our Contact us page, or via the email below:

[email protected]

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