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  <Title>Attention Faculty:  Ally Event on 10/29 with Instr. Tech</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p><span>Join our campus partner, Instructional Technology for<strong><em> Five (5) Things You Didn't Know that Blackboard Ally Can Do</em></strong> and learn about </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Ally" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ally</a><span>, a tool available in Blackboard Original and Ultra courses, that improves the accessibility of your course content. Attend this session to see Ally’s remediation capabilities and powerful file conversion tools that generate alternative formats for you and students.</span></p><p><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/97697" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Click here to see their full post and sign up!</a>  Want more detail? Read on:</p><p><span>This <em>30 minute </em>workshop will offer ideas for developing a strategy to improve your course usability and accessibility and how to get started with </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Ally" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard Ally</a><span>. Available in both Original and Ultra courses, Ally scans content in Blackboard and provides feedback and tools to identify and fix accessibility issues. </span></p><p><span>Leverage </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=77431280" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ally's powerful alternative format</a><span> options yourself, and let students know they can download content in multiple formats that give them choices in how they watch, read, or listen. </span></p><p><span>Upon completing this online session, participants should be able to:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>Run the </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87884573" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ally Accessibility Report</a><span> for your course (Original or Ultra) to identify accessibility issues  </span></p></li><li><p><span>Use Ally's </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Ally+for+Instructors" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Instructor Feedback Panel</a><span> to preview content and prioritize remediation</span></p></li><li><p><span>Follow Ally's step-by-step guidance to </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=77431315" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">fix accessibility issues</a></p></li><li><p><span>Deploy Ally's alternative formats to support diverse learning preferences</span></p></li></ul><div>Click on the links to get to Instructional Technology's event page signup.  We hope to see you there.</div><div><br></div><div>The post is accompanied by a photos of a neon sign stating "Do Something Great" in white letters on a black background. Credit: Clark Tibbs via Unsplash.com</div></div>
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  <Summary>Join our campus partner, Instructional Technology for Five (5) Things You Didn't Know that Blackboard Ally Can Do and learn about Ally, a tool available in Blackboard Original and Ultra courses,...</Summary>
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