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 24, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
A while back, I wrote a post about what, exactly, the plan was for our transition to Ultra. It all started with a pilot only a year ago. Then a lot of training from the Learning Technologies department. And, for some of us, a progressive transition to Ultra. The key...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 22, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
A couple of weeks ago, I presented on mind-mapping to some of you. In case anyone is interested, you can find the video and materials I used for the presentation in YuJa. Note that the video is indexed for searchability. You can also find my mind mapping video...
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...
