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.

The Canvas Accessibility Reformatting Agent helps you improve the accessibility of your Canvas pages without changing your content or course design. Simply paste the HTML from a Canvas page, and the agent will identify and correct many common accessibility issues, including headings, lists, tables, links, color contrast, and common Canvas Accessibility Checker false positives. It returns copy-and-paste-ready HTML that works with the Canvas Rich Content Editor, along with a brief summary of the changes it made and any items that require your review, such as writing alt text for images.

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