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  <Title>Blackboard Seeks Feedback on Ally Course Accessibility Report</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>Blackboard is currently working on improving the Ally Course Accessibility Report. They are collecting feedback from users in a short survey to understand how you use it, what’s working well, and what could be improved. </p>
    <p>If you are interested in sharing your thoughts on the Ally Course Accessibility Report, please <a href="https://forms.office.com/r/LRQJmK9Zj0" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Take the Survey</a>. Your feedback will directly help Blackboard make the survey more useful and easier to navigate.</p>
    <p><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&amp;ik=b56773bdf7&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-a:r6022279228213632490&amp;view=att&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_19d49cd51669a39c5601&amp;zw" alt="Dashboard screenshot showing Algebra 1 course accessibility score at 72% with a pie chart detailing 31 course content items by type, including PDF documents, Word documents, images, presentations, quizzes, pages, syllabus, and assignments. Additional panels highlight 8 content items with easiest issues to fix, 6 low scoring content items needing fixes, and a remaining issue indicating one document scanned but not OCRed." style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></p>
    <p><em>Image: Dashboard screenshot showing Algebra course accessibility score at 72% with a pie chart detailing course content items by type.</em></p>
    <p>For questions about using Ally, please contact Instructional Technology <a href="https://help.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">via RT Ticket</a>.</p></div>
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  <PostedAt>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:22:53 -0400</PostedAt>
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