Training Opportunities

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 10, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

Join USM's Digital Accessibility November Sprint, focusing on Color and Contrast. Ensuring sufficient color contrast between text and backgrounds is critical because it enables users with low...

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View Event Details for Focus on Color and Contrast: Digital Accessibility Remediation Sprint

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 11, 2025, 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

Description

Are you new to remediating PDF documents? Curious about what tools you can use to create or remediate PDF files? Join this workshop to learn how about PDF remediation tools and techniques, along...

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View Event Details for Practice & Share: Learn How to Remediate or Create Accessible PDFs for All Audiences

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 13, 2025, 8:00 am – 9:00 pm

Description

The ninth Digital Teaching Symposium, hosted by Anthology, brings educators together to share and discover innovative uses of technology in an ever-changing teaching environment. To keep learners...

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View Event Details for Blackboard's Fall 2025 Digital Teaching Symposium

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 13, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

This webinar, a collaboration between Every Learner Everywhere and the Northwest Higher Education Accessibility Technology group (NWHeat), invites faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and...

View Event Details for Free Webinar - How Students Use AI to Make Learning More Accessible

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 14, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

How confident are you that your students can access, understand, and act on your assessment feedback? Do you ever wonder whether students are reviewing the feedback you provide? Feedback is...

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View Event Details for Closing the Loop: Designing Accessible Feedback for All Learners

Nov

Location

Online

Date

November 18, 2025 (All Day Event)

Description

Fix Your Course Content Day is dedicated to improving the accessibility of digital course materials in Blackboard. This one-day push is a chance for faculty, staff, and instructional designers to...

View Event Details for Fix Your Content Day: Let’s Make Course Materials More Accessible

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 19, 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Description

In this webinar, MEEC and Microsoft will showcase new M365 Copilot features that transform teaching and learning experiences. Explore Teach, a powerful tool for creating lesson plans, rubrics,...

View Event Details for Free Webinar - Transforming Education with Microsoft Copilot

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 20, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

The Digital Accessibility Community of Practice (CoP) is a cross-functional group of faculty, staff, and students who are actively engaged in improving digital access in teaching, learning, and...

View Event Details for Digital Accessibility Community of Practice Monthly Meeting

Nov

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 20, 2025, 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm

Description

Are you looking to enhance your courses with video content? Do you want to learn more about how to use Yuja, UMBC's new video capture application to record lectures and share them with your...

View Event Details for Recording and Sharing Media in YuJa

Dec

Location

Online

Date & Time

December 1, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

How can we make video content more engaging and accessible for every learner? What happens when a key visual or spoken cue isn't available to some students? This 45-minute session explores...

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Training Opportunities

Focus on Color and Contrast: Digital Accessibility Remediation Sprint

Join the November Remediation Sprint sponsored by USM

Practice & Share: Learn How to Remediate or Create Accessible PDFs for All Audiences

Accessible PDFs Start Here: Practice, Share, Succeed

Blackboard's Fall 2025 Digital Teaching Symposium

Come together for a day of learning & sharing best practices

Free Webinar - How Students Use AI to Make Learning More Accessible

Sponsored by Northwest Higher Ed Accessible Technology

Closing the Loop: Designing Accessible Feedback for All Learners

Turn your feedback into a powerful tool for mastery

Fix Your Content Day: Let’s Make Course Materials More Accessible

If you can click it, you can fix it.

Free Webinar - Transforming Education with Microsoft Copilot

Sponsored by MEEC (Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium)

Digital Accessibility Community of Practice Monthly Meeting

Monthly Topic - Ally & Blackboard: Fixing Common Issues

Recording and Sharing Media in YuJa

Learn to create and publish media for your students

Video Captions & Audio Descriptions for Visual Media

If you can click it, you can fix it.

Join the November Remediation Sprint sponsored by USM

Accessible PDFs Start Here: Practice, Share, Succeed

Come together for a day of learning & sharing best practices

Sponsored by Northwest Higher Ed Accessible Technology

Turn your feedback into a powerful tool for mastery

If you can click it, you can fix it.

Sponsored by MEEC (Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium)

Monthly Topic - Ally & Blackboard: Fixing Common Issues

Learn to create and publish media for your students

If you can click it, you can fix it.

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