5 Things You Can Do with Bb Ally

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.

To RSVP for this event, please click “Going virtually” below and be sure to add the event to your calendar!

This webinar will take place in a 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.

Prior to the event

1. For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome or Firefox, preferably the most recent updates to those browsers. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help conserve your bandwidth.   

2. If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review the Collaborate Getting Started Guide or our Quick Start Guide for All Users. You will also find additional helpful information for using Collaborate at our extensive FAQs.

3. After joining the session, please configure your audio. Having trouble accessing Collaborate? Please see our Troubleshooting Audio Problems or Networking Issues for Collaborate guides.

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.

UMBC is committed to providing a consistent learning experience for everyone. The last day we will support Blackboard Original is December 31, 2024. Please check out our training and support: umbc.edu/go/ultra