AI Agents for Online Course Design & Accessibility

The Office of Digital Learning has built two AI agents to support your Canvas course page design and accessibility workflow and needs. 

These agents do not use conversation data to improve their models or store data. 

What are AI agents?
AI agents are AI tools built to handle a specific, repeatable task from start to finish. You give them an input, like pasting in HTML from Canvas, and they return a finished result without you needing to guide each step.

What does RCE stand for?
"RCE" stands for "Rich Content Editor". This is the text editor box in Canvas.

Do I have to pay to use the agent?
A ChatGPT account is required to use these agents. Limited use without a paid subscription.

Use this agent when Canvas flags a course banner for insufficient color contrast, even though the banner visually appears to have white text on a dark blue background. Paste in the page HTML, and the agent will return a corrected version that preserves the page design while making the banner readable to accessibility checkers. As a bonus, it also improves vague or non-descriptive hyperlinks, such as “click here” or raw document filenames, so links clearly describe where they go. It does not rewrite or redesign the page beyond fixing banner contrast and hyperlink accessibility issues.

These agents do not use conversation data to improve their models or store data. 

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RCE Page Craft helps faculty turn Canvas pages into polished, student-friendly HTML. Paste in HTML from the Canvas Rich Content Editor, and the agent will clean up the structure, improve accessibility, organize content for easier reading, and return copy-paste-ready HTML for Canvas. It preserves your original wording while improving layout, headings, spacing, links, and visual consistency.

These agents do not use conversation data to improve their models or store data. 

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Have an exam in a Word document that you want to deliver in Canvas Quizzes? Upload your Word (.docx) and this GPT agent converts it into the required format. Once your file is converted, simply submit it to the ODL team at canvas@uttyler.edu for import into Canvas.

These agents do not use conversation data to improve their models or store data. 

Use the Agent