Learning Technologies Blog

Do One Thing in Ally: Fix Your Low-Scoring Content

In my previous post on Ally, I showed you guys how to access your dashboard and check out your course score as well as which items need the most work to increase that course score. For one of my classes, this looked like this. As you can see, my course score was 74%...

New Features Alert

As mentioned before, now that we are no longer self-hosting Blackboard but using SaaS, Blackboard can push new features all the time. There are two new things that are coming up very shortly that I wanted to highlight here. Fine-Tuning Your Discussion Parameters The...

Welcome Back, Ally (Sung to the Tune of “Welcome Back, Kotter”)

For those of you as old as I am, you might remember that, once upon a time, we used Ally for accessibility checks in our courses. Heck, I still have a t-shirt and a frisbee from that time. Karin Evans and I got to be in a video about it. Then Ally went away and we...
Find Learning Technologies at Fall Kickoff!

Find Learning Technologies at Fall Kickoff!

The start of the Fall 2024 Term is right around the corner! We look forward to seeing everyone at Kickoff, August 14-16. We'll be hosting several sessions at Kickoff (all eligible for PDH!) and hope you can attend! Here's where we'll be:  Getting Started with...