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For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Crystal Velasco, USC Office of Student Accessibility Services, along with Jason Dove and Sakib Shariar from the USC Brightspace Team, explore how AI technology intersects with student accommodations, highlighting how tools like speech-to-text, captioning, screen readers, and note-taking tools are already part of many students’ learning. They also demonstrate how Brightspace’s Panorama tool supports accessible course design by identifying barriers, flagging issues, and generating alternative formats that help ensure course materials work effectively with assistive technologies.
Sources: USC Community, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Erin Crutcher, a USC graduate student in the Healthcare Decision Analysis program at USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, highlights the transformative potential of AI for students with low vision, demonstrating how these tools significantly improved her own access to course materials and academic workflows, creating a more equitable experience in the program and allowing her to learn at the pace of her peers. She also shares how using Tabular by Reliant to structure unorganized research data enabled her to accelerate a study on patient voice in drug development and move more quickly toward publication.
Sources: USC Community | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Kendra Walther, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, argues for centering the learning process rather than polished AI-generated outputs. Drawing on examples from active learning and computer science, she shows how instructors can redesign assessments to reveal student thinking through reflection, explanation, and low-stakes checkpoints that support accessibility and accountability.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Helena Seli, USC Rossier School of Education, and Julie Loppacher, Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, explore how faculty can embed AI from day one to support accessibility and student self-regulation through evidence-based strategies focused on goal setting, organizing learning, and time management. They show how AI can help students create SMART goals, turn dense course material into visual study aids, clarify assignment instructions, and build weekly calendars that highlight busy periods and reduce procrastination.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, David Melone, USC Marshall School of Business, demonstrates how “Accesso-Bot,” a custom GPT developed with Marshall’s Teaching and Innovation Office, helps rapidly remediate course materials into accessible formats for students, including transcripts, readable documents, and detailed image descriptions. He shows how the tool cuts turnaround time from days to hours while preserving instructional intent and supporting students who rely on screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Deborah Natoli and Minh Trinh, USC Price School of Public Policy, share how they redesigned an annotated bibliography assignment using AI tools like NotebookLM, including a structured guide for students to log AI use and verify sources while building AI literacy and critical evaluation skills.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Raffaella Ghittoni, USC Dornsife (Biology) shares a Brightspace banner challenge where students to create AI-generated or self-designed course images, encouraging early syllabus review, creativity, class discussion, and thoughtful engagement with course content.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Wanmeng Li, USC Dornsife (East Asian Languages and Cultures), demonstrates how custom GPTs and retrieval-augmented generation can automate routine student questions, reduce repetitive emails, and create course-specific Q&A bots grounded in syllabi and other class materials.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Mathew Curtis, USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, walks through a framework for using AI at three progressive levels to refine assignment prompts, generate examples, anticipate student confusion, and stress-test assignment design against course learning objectives.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Rita Barakat, USC Dornsife (Biology), shares how she redesigned formative assessments in introductory biology to guide students in using generative AI through carefully structured prompts, problem sets, and reflection questions that build critical thinking and help them evaluate AI output.
Sources: USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines
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