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6 Ways to Make Visual and Creative Media More Accessible

Art can challenge students without creating barriers.

A student opens the image for tomorrow's critique. The assignment asks her to analyze composition, contrast, and scale, but the image description says only, "abstract painting." She knows what...

Posted: October 20, 2026, 4:59 PM

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Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update

Keep AI conversations in the target language

Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 3:30 PM

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Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update

Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard

A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.