Accessible Course Content: Creating and Fixing (repost)

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:42:16 -0400
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Join this virtual workshop from UMBC's Instructional Technology team that will offer ideas for developing a strategy to improve course usability and accessibility by getting started with Blackboard Ally.

RSVP for the August 21st session and learn more at their event post linked below.

Learn about Ally, a tool available in Blackboard courses that improves the accessibility of your course content. Attend this session to see Ally's remediation capabilities and file conversion tools that generate alternative formats for you and your students.

This workshop will offer ideas for developing a strategy to improve your course usability and accessibility and how to get started with Blackboard Ally. Ally scans content in Blackboard and provides feedback and tools to identify and fix accessibility issues.

Leverage Ally's powerful alternative format options yourself, and let students know they can download content in multiple formats that give them choices in how they watch, read, or listen.

Upon completing this online session, participants will be able to:

Run the Ally Accessibility Report for your course (Original or Ultra) to identify accessibility issues

Use Ally's Instructor Feedback Panel to preview content and prioritize remediation

Follow Ally's step-by-step guidance to fix accessibility issues

Deploy Ally's alternative formats to support diverse learning preferences

This session will be facilitated by Drs. Peter Ariev and Susan Biro, members of the Instructional Technology team.

RSVP details are in the original my UMBCpost, click on the link below

A photo of a seated black woman wearing headphones while working on a laptop accompanies this post.