Closing the Loop: Designing Accessible Feedback for All Learners

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 accessible when it’s frequent, timely, specific, and delivered in an accessible format.

Learn how to use tools in Blackboard Ultra to create feedback that is not just a grade, but a clear, accessible roadmap to success for every learner. Join us to transform your feedback into a powerful engagement tool for your students.

Session Objectives

• Identify common accessibility barriers in traditional feedback methods.
• Demonstrate how to use Blackboard Ultra's tools to provide timely, specific, and substantive feedback.
• Identify strategies to incorporate accessible feedback in your course design.

We’ll also explore different feedback formats and methods (rubrics, automatic, written, video) and how AI tools can be leveraged to support accessible assessment feedback.

This session will be facilitated by Josh Abrams, Instructional Design Specialist. Open to all faculty and instructional staff. No prior accessibility experience needed.

RSVP

To RSVP for the event, please click “Going” in the myUMBC event and be sure to add it to your calendar! Registered participants will also receive a calendar invitation from the event host at least one week before the event.

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.

JOINING THE SESSION

This webinar will take place in a Google Meet virtual conference room. Enter the webinar up to 15 minutes before the start time. Visit the myUMBC Event post and select the "Join Online Event" button to join the Google Meet session.

Prior to the Event

1. For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome, Brave, 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 requirements to use Google Meet. Learn how to connect your audio & video, change/blur your background, and use reactions. You can also review the accessibility support including live captions.