Attention Faculty: Ally Event on 10/29 with Instr. Tech

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:07:33 -0400
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Join our campus partner, Instructional Technology for Five (5) Things You Didn't Know that Blackboard Ally Can Do and learn about Ally, a tool available in Blackboard Original and Ultra courses, that improves the accessibility of your course content. Attend this session to see Ally’s remediation capabilities and powerful file conversion tools that generate alternative formats for you and students.

Click here to see their full post and sign up! Want more detail? Read on:

This 30 minute workshop will offer ideas for developing a strategy to improve your course usability and accessibility and how to get started with Blackboard Ally. Available in both Original and Ultra courses, 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 should 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

Click on the links to get to Instructional Technology's event page signup. We hope to see you there.

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