Page scan, shared PDF, screenshot, photo of a brainstorm session on the white board… it’s easy to collect course content and notes that are not editable and not accessible. Luckily it is even easier with Google to extract uneditable text to a document through optical character recognition (OCR). As an automated process, OCR is not …
Every Brightspace course has a Kaltura Media Gallery to store and sort media just for that course. There are many ways to use the Media Gallery but in this post we will talk about easily adding ALL Kaltura media for your course to the Media Gallery. If you embed a video in your Content area, …
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It can be hard to see the effectiveness of video within your course when you have to look at individual video analytics. Luckily, if you are using Kaltura videos, you can see a dashboard of all your course video analytics in one place! These analytics will look at all the videos in your course wherever …
In the first Ally blog post, we discussed that Ally provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to fix any identified accessibility issues. In addition, Ally provides instructors with a method for looking at the accessibility status of all of the items in the content areas of the course …
In the last blog post, we briefly discussed the generation of accessible alternatives such as audio, ePub, electronic braille, tagged PDFs, and HTML for viewing on mobile devices. This supports the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and allows students to choose the type of file that best suits their needs. The following video …
Ally is a set of tools within Brightspace courses that helps instructors to make course content more accessible by delivering the following functionality: Automatically runs your course materials through an accessibility checker eliminating the need to use multiple checkers and tools. Provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to …
There now new ways for students and instructors to track work and submissions in Brightspace! We’ve added 2 new widgets to homepages Work to Do widget for students The Work to Do widget shows upcoming, due, and overdue work. Students can see the work for a course on the course homepage OR work for all …
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When work is busy, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the number of emails arriving in our inboxes. Gmail has features to help you manage your inbox with labels, colors, and filters, and the video below will show you the basics to help you stay organized and to ensure that you will never miss …
Foxit PDF Editor allows you to quickly combine multiples files (even of different file types) into a single PDF file. No need to go around converting individual files. Just select and combine! Watch the video below for instructions on how to do this using Foxit PDF Editor. This will not work in Foxit Reader. This …
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