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UDL Choice Board Designer

Build Your Own Professional Learning Choice Board

About the UDL Choice Board Designer

Make a choice board for a staff meeting, a workshop or your next community of practice gathering.

  1. Name your board.
  2. Choose 9 squares. Use the resources on this site and from highly recommended external UDL sites, and up to three links of your own.
  3. Give each square a title and an icon, put them in order and add what to do.
  4. Print it, download it or share it as a link.

Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Your draft stays in this browser, on this device.

Ready-Made Choice Boards

These boards use resources on this site and from highly recommended external UDL sites. Use one as it is, or design your own below.

See all four ready-made boards, with more detail

Name Your Board

Optional: share who made it, who it is for and the date

These show at the top of the board. Leave any of them empty.

For example: Grade 6 team, or new staff

For example: 12 November 2026

Choose 9 Squares

Every board has 9 squares, in three rows of three. Choose all 9. The centre square can then be a Start Here square, and the board can be a tic-tac-toe activity.

0 of 9 chosen

Resources on This Site

The resources are grouped by type. Each type has its own colour label and icon. Open a group to see its resources, then tick the ones you want.

Top Recommendations
Explore UDL topics and the guided tour 4 to choose from
Read and look Articles, posters and samples about UDL 8 to choose from

  • Read and look Article

    This article is about the idea of average, how it plays a role in education, and why UDL starts with variability.

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  • Read and look Poster From UDL Resources

    A poster that names five things we mean when we talk about Universal Design for Learning.

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  • Read and look Interactive

    Dr. Loui Lord Nelson developed the UDL Gears from extensive research to clarify the mindset, skills, and practices needed to apply the UDL framework.

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  • Read and look Poster From UDL Resources

    An abridged poster of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0. It focuses on the Access row: Welcoming Interests & Identities, Perception, and Interaction. Source: CAST UDL Guidelines version 3.0 (CAST, 2024a). The UDL Guidelines are © CAST.

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  • Read and look Slide From UDL Resources

    Goals, assessment, methods and materials: what each one is, what UDL asks of it, and questions to ask about your own design.

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  • Read and look Poster From UDL Resources

    Flexible verbs for writing learning goals that leave room for more than one way to show learning, and inflexible verbs to avoid in goals. Verb lists shared with permission from Dr. Patti Kelly Ralabate, author of Your UDL Lesson Planner (2016).

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  • Read and look Sample From UDL Resources

    One barrier example with its clues, ways to reduce it, and the UDL Guidelines and Considerations behind it.

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  • Read and look Webinar summaries From UDL Resources

    Two pieces from the UDL Essentials LiveBinder. Each summarises a CAST webinar on the UDL Guidelines 3.0, with questions to ask about your own design. Webinar summaries from the UDL Essentials LiveBinder by Beth Stark and Dr. Loui Lord Nelson.

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Do Activities, card sorts and routines 5 to choose from

  • Do Interactive From UDL Resources

    The three principles, nine guidelines and 36 considerations of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0, with links to CAST and to resources on this site. Source: CAST UDL Guidelines version 3.0 (CAST, 2024a). The principle, guideline and consideration names are CAST's own words. The UDL Guidelines are © CAST.

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  • Do Card sort From UDL Resources

    Sort 30 cards, ten at a time. Each answer explains why the card is a barrier in the design or an important factor.

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  • Do Routines From UDL Resources

    Three professional learning routines for your next staff meeting or UDL professional learning community (PLC), with accessible slides.

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  • Do Activity From Aiming for ALL Accessibility Collection

    Read 12 everyday barriers. Sort each one by the four POUR principles, then see a way to reduce it.

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  • Do Book

    New to UDL? Questions educators often ask, and how to explore them with the AI-powered UDL thought partner, LUDIA.

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Connect Collections and connections for UDL 5 to choose from

  • Connect Podcast From UDL Collections and Connections

    Loui talks with educators and leaders around the world about how they use UDL. UDL in 15 Minutes by Dr. Loui Lord Nelson, on The UDL Approach.

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  • Connect Newsletter From UDL Collections and Connections

    UDL Connections is a quarterly newsletter from members of the Ohio UDL Collaborative. Each issue looks at one UDL practice, links it to the UDL Guidelines and Considerations, and shares how schools use it. UDL Connections, a quarterly newsletter from the Ohio UDL Collaborative.

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  • Connect Website From UDL Collections and Connections

    Design principles and approaches for school teachers from the early years to the end of secondary school (K-12), teacher educators and postsecondary educators. Universally Designed, a website by Universally Designed.

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  • Connect Website From UDL Collections and Connections

    Teaching approaches and tools organised by the UDL principles. UDL Resource FlipKit, on Open Access 2.0.

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  • Connect Website From UDL Collections and Connections

    Ideas for bringing UDL into classroom instruction and design. Universal Design for Learning Strategy Database, from Relay Graduate School of Education.

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Add Your Own Links (optional)

You can add up to three links of your own, such as a page from your school. Each link is one square on the board. Choose an idea or a blank link, fill it in, then choose Add to my board.

Ideas to consider:

  • Idea A Your link

    A UDL resource you trust

    A page, video or article about UDL. You add its web address.

  • Idea B Your link

    Your school or institution's resources

    For example, your definition of high-quality teaching and learning, with a question to make UDL connections.

  • Idea C Think with LUDIA

    I'm LUDIA, the AI thought partner for UDLYour own LUDIA prompt

    Write a prompt for people to copy and paste into LUDIA. A starter prompt is filled in for you to change.

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Title, Icon, Order and What to Do

Each square starts with a title and an icon. Change them if you like. You can also add a goal or instructions, for example: Read it, then share one idea with a partner. If you leave it empty, the printed board has a blank space to write in.

The squares sit in rows of three, as on the printed board. Left and Right move a square one place along its row. Up and Down move it one row.

Board options (optional)

The centre square is choice E. Move the choice you want people to start with into it. Needs at least 5 choices.

People complete three choices in a line: across, down or corner to corner. Each square gets a small box to tick. Needs 9 choices.

Your chosen squares appear here.

    Your Board

    Your board appears here as you choose squares.

    Low ink: white squares, grey lines, no colour fills. In the print box, choose Save as PDF to keep a copy.

    To save a PDF, choose Print, then Save as PDF. The Word document opens in Word, Pages, LibreOffice and other word processors, and you can edit it.

    For screen reader users: the Word document keeps the headings and picture descriptions. Save from Chrome to get a tagged PDF, with headings and links. A PDF saved from another browser may not be tagged.

    Make your own choice board

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