What should faculty members do to make course materials accessible on Blackboard?
Good teaching and learning practices require conveying information in as many ways as possible and this is true for creating accessible online courses as well. The flexibility of Blackboard provides the ability to create equivalent content; for example, a course could contain content folders to group images, videos, sound files, text files, and other rich content. This flexibility helps create an environment where learners of many types and abilities can absorb and comprehend course information to achieve positive learning outcomes. For more detailed information, see “Blackboard Quick Start Guides, Universal Design and Accessibility.” When creating course content materials to be made available through Blackboard, separating content from presentation is a key principle, along with providing text alternatives for multimedia content.
