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...
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%...
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...
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...
Join Learning Technologies on Wednesday, November 19th to learn how you can "level up" the accessibility of your courses and documents! We'll be offering sessions on making the most out of tools you already use like Microsoft Office, YuJa, and Blackboard to enhance...
But first, Christine's cranky thought of the week that does not involve the LT office. Here goes: Seriously. Troubleshooting students is not their job, and they've got plenty to do with their actual jobs, which is supporting faculty. Where should students go then? My...
