Join Instructional Technology for an Accessibility Workshop to review Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, explore key technology resources to support all learners, and create an action plan to support accessibility in your courses.
Session Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will have created an action plan on next steps and resources needed to design accessible courses and create or remediate content for accessibility.
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Susan Biro, Manager, Online Learning, and Josh Abrams, Instructional Design Specialist.
Recommended resources
Participants may find it helpful to review the following about accessibility and course design prior to the workshop.
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
Have you met Ally? Sign up for a proper introduction with Instructional Technology's training here: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/79747
When: February 12th at noon
Where: Online - from the comfort of where you access Blackboard!
From Instructional Technology on the what-to-do:
Come to this webinar and learn about Ally and what it can do to help you remediate course materials to improve accessibility for all. This orientation will showcase Ally’s powerful file conversion tools that provide alternative formats and expand students' options about how they want to engage with content.
This session will also help you move beyond content remediation into a more proactive approach, one where you find or create more accessible course materials from day one.
Finally, we will review strategies on how to create accessible content, including tools to help with Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoint, lecture videos, and images.
Workshop Objectives
Upon completion of the workshop, participants should be able to:
The webinar will take place in a Blackboard Collaborate virtual conference room. Use the link below to enter the webinar up to 15 minutes before the start time:
For more information about Ally at UMBC, please see this announcement and the FAQ collection.
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