Learning Technologies Blog

New Ultra Feature Alert!

First off, allow me to gloat for a second. I have completed the accessibility remediation of one of my course shells (see my previous blog posts on fixing my low-scoring issues and my medium-scoring issues): Behold! There are a couple of high-scoring items that remain...

Do One Thing in Ally: Fix Your Medium Scoring Content

For those of you keeping track at home, fixing my low-scoring content increased my course accessibility score from 75% to 89%. In this post, let's see what happens to that score once I fix my medium scoring issues. A quick overview tells me that the issues are...

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%...
No, PDFs Are Not Dead

No, PDFs Are Not Dead

No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...

Fall 2025 Term Updates and Kickoff Information

Fall 2025 Term Updates and Kickoff Information

Welcome back, faculty! We hope everyone enjoyed a great summer. We're ready to help get you up and running with the Fall 2025 Term!  Getting Started Resources Faculty Get Started Find help with a range of basic beginning-of-term tasks, like course copy, gradebook set...