Create a +1 strategy and support diverse learning styles

Location

Online

Create a +1 strategy and support diverse learning styles – Online Event

Date & Time

September 30, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Does your course offer students multiple ways to consume content, complete activities, and demonstrate learning?

Improving the accessibility of course content not only helps ensure students with different abilities can access materials, but it improves the learning experience for everyone, including those who use mobile devices.

The framework to support accessible course design is called Universal Design for Learning (UDL). At its core, UDL provides all learners with experiences that include multiple ways to engage, represent, and express.

This webinar will offer ideas for developing a +1 strategy to improve course accessibility and highlight tools in 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 and let students know they can download content in multiple formats that give them choices in how they watch, read, or listen.

Alternative formats are not only for a select group of students. They benefit all learners as part of a +1 strategy to support accessible course content.

Objectives:

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
Download and utilize Ally's alternative format options to benefit all learners
Create a +1 strategy to support multiple modalities in your course

This 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: http://tiny.cc/FA20

Prior to the session

If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review Getting Started Guide. You will also find additional helpful information for using Blackboard Collaborate at our extensive FAQs.

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The session will be recorded if two or more people attend and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered.

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