by Christina Sabo | May 4, 2022 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Events, Featured
This year, Fix Your Content Day takes place on Thursday, May 19th and will last for 24 hours. This coincides with Global Accessibility Awareness Day and helps to highlight the need for more inclusive digital content. What Is Fix Your Content Day Fix Your...
by Christina Sabo | Apr 6, 2021 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
One of the cool things that Ally offers students is the ability to download alternative formats of a wide range of types of course content. What’s even cooler is that now there are even MORE types of course content that students can access in alternative formats....
by Christina Sabo | Jul 20, 2020 | Accessibility, Ally, Featured, Quick Tips
Even if you know how important it is and have the best intentions at heart, the idea of going through every single piece of content in your course to improve accessibility can be overwhelming to say the least. There’s simply so much to do and there’s so little time to...
by Christina Sabo | Jan 29, 2020 | Ally, Blackboard, Featured
While Ally was operational in for Summer of 2019, most students and faculty weren’t really aware of it and usage was low. As such, the Fall term was our first full term of use, and we were able to pull a lot of really interesting data from that experience. The...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 2, 2019 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Events, Featured
Ally is bringing its IncluCity tour to College of DuPage next week and you can take part! There will be several fun and engaging learning opportunities over the two days the tour will be here, touching not only on Blackboard Ally but also on larger accessibility...
by Christina Sabo | Aug 27, 2019 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
Have you started using Ally yet? One thing that might be helpful as a rookie Ally user is to see just how the tool has helped those at other institutions. One of the best ways to do that is to check out the Ally Community Stories on the Blackboard Ally website....