As I finish this first year as Faculty Chair of Online Quality and Learning Technologies, I just thought I'd offer a recap of all the content I created over this academic year. The Foundations courses The very first thing I did was redesign entirely the LT course...
Learning Technologies Blog
Do One Thing In Panorama: Get a Coursewide Accessibility Score
So far, my posts on Panorama have been about setting it up, and getting started on fixing individual items in a course. It's great, but sometimes, it's helpful to have a broad, bird's eye view of an entire course in terms of accessibility. Thankfully, YuJa Panorama...
Do One Thing in Panorama: Adjust Video Descriptions
Before reading any further, please make sure you have read my initial post on Panorama, where I explain how to set it up for your courses in Blackboard. The point of doing this setup is to then be able to get an accessibility score on all your course elements, detect...
Ultra Transition – Where Are We At?
A while back, I wrote a post about what, exactly, the plan was for our transition to Ultra. It all started with a pilot only a year ago. Then a lot of training from the Learning Technologies department. And, for some of us, a progressive transition to Ultra. The key...
PD Sessions Videos and Materials
A couple of weeks ago, I presented on mind-mapping to some of you. In case anyone is interested, you can find the video and materials I used for the presentation in YuJa. Note that the video is indexed for searchability. You can also find my mind mapping video...
RIP Ally, Long Live YuJa Panorama
Accessibility matters. For some years, now, we have been using Ally to check the accessibility of our course content and provide alternative formats. We have now switched to YuJa Panorama, a tool that fulfills the same purpose. But from what I can tell, has expanded...