Ally College Spotlight: Long Beach City College - Strategies for successful adoption & engagement supporting accessibility & a culture of inclusion

We are excited to be joined by Dr. Hussam Kashou, Associate Dean of Online Learning & Educational Technology at Long Beach City College (LBCC). Dr. Kashou will present on the strategies LBCC took to successfully deploy Ally and the role it is playing in LBCC's culture of inclusion. In addition to sharing best practices from their Ally rollout, Dr. Kashou will also share data and feedback that has guided LBCC's continued work of supporting faculty and students with accessibility. We hope to see you there!

Registration link for Ally College Spotlight: Long Beach City College

Ally/STAC Information Session - Registration Link

Just like any good carpenter building a house, you need a toolbox of things to help you design and develop a course with accessibility in mind. In this session, we’ll introduce the suite of tools—PopeTech, WAVE, UDOIT and Ally—available to our CCC faculty and instructional designers, and walk you through the pros and cons of each.

Registration link for Canvas and Your Accessibility Toolbox

During this session, we will provide you with ways in which you can use Ally’s Institutional Report to measure progress and improve the accessibility of Canvas course content across your colleges and districts. We will also show you how to run usage data reports that will help you to understand the adoption of Ally and consider strategies for improving accessibility practices across the institution.

To participate, visit the event registration page.

With the California Community Colleges making Ally available to support the system’s commitment to inclusive learning, CVC-OEI and the Blackboard Ally Team are partnering to offer monthly programming to the colleges and districts using Ally. These monthly sessions will highlight best practices for deploying and adopting Ally and will also spotlight use cases directly from CCC institutions on how they are leveraging Ally to promote access and inclusion.

This session will focus on using Ally’s features –  Alternative Formats, Instructor Feedback, and the Institutional Report – to their fullest potential. Please join us during the session, where we will discuss the following ways you, your students, and your faculty can maximize the use of Ally:

• Alternative Format Use Case Review (Student focus)
  • We will review the uses and benefits of the different Alternative Formats and provide use cases for how different student populations may leverage them in their learning.
• Support Faculty Workflows (Instructor focus)
  • We will show how faculty can utilize the Course Accessibility Report to focus accessibility efforts in their courses and to track accessibility progress over time.
• Monitoring Accessibility Progress (Administrator focus)
  • We will discuss how this data can be used to understand the current accessibility landscape and to drive accessibility progress going forward.

Meeting link: February 26, 2021 Ally Webinar Link

We hope by bringing together Ally users from across the state, we will have the opportunity to talk about all things related to accessibility and learn from one another. Our speakers will be covering a wide range of Ally use cases and personal experiences—from success stories on Ally adoption to how it’s being woven into curricula. Please find the updated & complete agenda attached, and feel free to share with your colleagues.

For more information about the day and to reserve your spot, register here.