Boost Accessibility: Blackboard Ally Virtual Office Hours

Learn about Ally, a tool available in Blackboard Original and Ultra courses, that improves the accessibility of your course content. Schedule a personal consultation to see Ally’s remediation capabilities and file conversion tools that generate alternative formats for you and your students. 

This scheduled 20-minute Webex consultation will offer instructors 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 the consultation, participants should be able to:

• Run the Ally Accessibility Report for your course to identify accessibility issues.
• Use Ally's Instructor Feedback Panel to preview content and prioritize remediation
• Deploy Ally's alternative formats to support diverse learning preferences.

Schedule Your Consult:

Registration for this event is now closed. Please submit an RT request if you would like to schedule a Blackboard Ally consultation for your course(s). Thank you.

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