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 | May 13, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama
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....
by Christine Monnier | May 6, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama
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...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, 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...
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...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 17, 2023 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
Even if you don’t have students in your courses who require specific accommodations, ensuring that your course content is accessible is an important part of effectively serving all our students here at College of DuPage. Blackboard has some built in tools that...
