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...
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...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 27, 2022 | Accessibility, Featured, Video, YuJa
All video content you share in your courses needs to be captioned to ensure it complies with ADA guidelines. This helps to ensure that all students are able to access the content in a course. It also helps any students who just prefer to watch videos with captions–...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 20, 2022 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
Wondering what’s new in Bb this fall? Here’s a list of all the updates to Blackboard for September 2022! Let us know if you have any questions or notice anything that’s not working as expected! For Instructors Here are the instructor-specific updates to...
