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Dana Lee Baker, Instructional Designer / Developer from California State University Channel Islands, developed a bilingual course homepage under the mentorship of Danna Lomax. These resources allow multilingual students to access headings and key course resources in their primary language. The hope is to create a sense of belonging and normalize difference as an individual and community strength.

Dana Lee Baker, Instructional Designer / Developer from California State University Islands, under the mentorship of Danna Lomax developed canvas course homepage and key heading resources in Spanish. Additional elements of multilingual support are communicated in both English and Spanish. The resources are intended to expand and enhance belonging as well as emphasize that multilingualism is an individual and collective strength.

Kristin Jordan, Instructor from California State University Channel Islands, implemented bilingual translations in Canvas for a Sociology of Education course where information on the Canvas home page, in the welcome/start here module, and major headings/buttons are presented in both English and Spanish. This initiative ensures that information displayed on the Canvas home page, within the welcome/start here module, and major headings/buttons is accessible in both English and Spanish. By providing simultaneous translations, students gain direct exposure to essential concepts and research covered in the course, such as community cultural wealth, linguistic capital, and bilingual education. Additionally, this approach fosters a more inclusive environment, both linguistically and culturally, within our class. Importantly, the adaptability of these bilingual translations makes them applicable to various courses, regardless of content alignment.

Chrissy Soderlund, Instructor from Cal State Channel Islands, developed a bilingual kit for the Calculus I Canvas Shell. The bilingual kit enables instructors to better articulate course material in a way that embraces students for whom Spanish is their first language. There is a variety of instructional material types on the Canvas shell (videos, quizzes, written text, online math homework system, discussions, etc.). The bilingual kit strengthens the text of the various material types.