Designing for all Learners: Accessibility in Blackboard and Kaltura – Sept 2
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This webinar introduces three tools that will assist you in making your course content accessible to all students: Blackboard Ally (a built-in accessibility checker), Microsoft’s Accessibility Checker, and Kaltura, our media streaming service, which includes its own accessibility features for multimedia content.
What Will be Covered
The topics of this webinar will include:
- Learn best practices – creating and sharing content that supports all learners, including those using screen readers or other assistive technologies
- See accessibility scores – clear indicators will show you how accessible each file in your course is
- Receive step-by-step guidance – how to fix common accessibility issues directly within Blackboard
- Alternative formats
- Checking accessibility of external course resources
- Uploading media to Kaltura and embedding media in your Bb course
- Interacting with the Kaltura Interface
- Adding a faculty member as a Collaborator
- Recording video with Express Capture
- Request Professional closed captions for your video
- Editing auto-captions
- Audio Descriptions
- Learn how to use Analytics in Kaltura My Media
For more information, contact
Center for Instructional Technology
Our mission is to promote excellence in teaching across all curricula at Rhode Island College by combining technology and instructional design best practices to assist faculty in realizing their teaching and learning goals.
- Henry Barnard School 206, 342 RI College Rd, Providence, RI