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 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. 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
Following the 45-minute presentation, join us for a closer look at how to use Ally and Q&A.
To RSVP for this event, please click the Website button below to get to the Instructional Tech page to "Go virtually" and be sure to add the event to your calendar!
This webinar will take place in a Blackboard Collaborate virtual conference room. Enter the webinar up to 15 minutes before the start time. Use the "Join Online Event" link above to join the session.
At least 5 registrations are needed for this session to proceed as scheduled. The session will be recorded if two or more people attend and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered.
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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