Improve Course Accessibility with Ally's Remediation Tools
Find or fix content and offer students alternative formats
Location
Online
Date & Time
January 24, 2025, 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Description
Learn about Ally, a tool in Blackboard Ultra that scans content created in the course and offers instructors remediation support to improve accessibility. In this session we highlight Ally’s remediation capabilities and file conversion tools that help create an accessible and inclusive experience for all learners.
Instructors can leverage Ally's powerful alternative format options and let students know they can also download content in multiple formats that support diverse learning styles.
Sessions topics and demo include how to:
- Run Ally's Accessibility Report
- Use Ally's Instructor Feedback Panel to preview and prioritize remediation
- Follow Ally's step-by-step guidance to fix accessibility issues
- Leverage Ally's alternative formats and File Transformer
This session will be facilitated by Susan Biro, Manager, Online Learning, and Ada Crutchfield, Instructional Design Specialist.
To RSVP for this event, please click "Going virtually" below and be sure to add the event to your calendar!
JOINING THE SESSION
This webinar will take place in a Google Meet virtual conference room. Registrants will receive a calendar invitation and link prior to the event. Enter the webinar up to 10 minutes before the start time. Select the "Join Online Event" button in myUMBC to join.
- For best viewing, we recommend using Chrome, Brave, or Firefox, preferably the most recent updates to those browsers. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help converse bandwith.
- If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review the requirements to use Google Meet. Learn how to connect your audio & video, change or blur your background, and use reactions. You can also review the accessibility settings, including live captions.
The session will be recorded if two or more people attend. All registrants will receive a link to the captioned recording. All recordings are posted to the Instructional Technology Training Archive in Panopto.
Connect with Instructional Technology
As always, if you have questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC consider the following options:
Follow the Instructional Technology & DoIT myUMBC groups
(Thumbnail alt-text: Blackboard Ally Logo, "Accessible content is better content")
