Hi Sandra,

Good find on the video Designing for Diversity! It really helps the readers of your blog post to receive information in various forms. I like your two designs for two different groups of learners with specific needs.

The design for English language learners to be able to copy and paste so as to translate the texts into their first language to help with understanding does sound helpful and easy to do.

The second one however, I’m not sure if the no due date design would lead some of the learners to procrastinate till the end of the course when they have to do everything just to finish the tasks in time. And would it be better to still keep due dates for tasks and tell the learners that they could submit their works late but there will be a, say 10% deduction in the score as penalty so as to push them to try to finish everything in time as much as possible?

Looking forward to hearing from you if you’d like to talk about my suggestion! Best of luck!


Hi Xinyi,

I really enjoyed your story of learner Orlonia, as well as the extended thoughts on this case. The design of yours to meet the learners needs is also very specific and thoughtful. I’m amazed to see the detailed design of your survey for each learner and the the questions that help you figure out the learners different levels of literacy. Although on that note, I think it would also require a lot of work and time from you to read through every survey of the learners and then put them into different categories. Would it be helpful if you could have a category of different levels of literacy of the learners first, and then design your survey based on that to categorize the learners into different levels. It could be like a placement test and it would also give students advice on what they can read or do to improve their literacy based on the results they get from the test.

Tell me what you think and good luck!