by Christine Monnier | Nov 24, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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...
by Learning Tech Dev | Nov 10, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Featured
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...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 9, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Christine’s thought that is unrelated to the LT department: do yourselves a favor and go check out the Against AI website. It’s a work in progress but it contains some background readings, some assignment ideas, and other content. I know I mentioned...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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...
by Christine Monnier | May 20, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama, Qwickly, YuJa
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...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 13, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
One of the nice things about YuJa is that it generates automatic captions for your videos but no caption-generation system is perfect (especially if you have an accent). Therefore, you should always double-check that your captions are accurate because, frankly, it...
