LING 165
Exploring the World’s Languages
Exploring the World’s Languages
A few details
This is a three-credit linguistics course offered by UNC’s Carolina Courses Online department.
Some special
The class was multimedia-heavy and needed to accommodate specialized IPA text renderings, such as creating a special class for 3-line translation tables that scrolled horizontally to comply with translation standards and still maintain accessibility.
How I solved it
I used a clean stylesheet that centered most media elements to provide much-needed white space.
“The course looks great. Really. Well done and thank you! I know that it was a lot of tedious work and you plowed through it amazingly fast.” Caleb Hicks, CCO instructor
“The lessons each week were very well laid out on the Sakai site. I have never seen a Sakai site so useful for its students. I would even recommend having other professors see how [this site] used Sakai to be the most resourceful and helpful for students.” – LING 165 Anonymous Student Evaluation (Spring 2018)
View the video below to see the responsive and accessible tables that conform to IPA standards (i.e., no line breaks or wrapping words) in action.
People involved
Weeks provided to code all 14 lessons in HTML
Students per semester
Individually-coded pieces of multimedia