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Free webinar--Expanding the Reach of Accessibility within Brightspace
Join this free webinar hosted by ReadSpeaker! Feb 23, 2023 @ 2:00 PM EST Expanding the Reach of Accessibility within Brightspace https://app.livestorm.co/readspeaker-llc/expanding-the-reach-of-accessibility-within-brightspace
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Free Webinar with ReadSpeaker and Respondus!
How Aims Community College Provides Secure and Accessible Assessments May 11, 2023 2:00 PM Register here. By utilizing Respondus and ReadSpeaker, Aims Community College has been able to provide their learners a way to have their assessments provided in a secure, accessible environment. In this webinar, you will hear from…
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Figcapiton vs alt=""
Which is best to use from an accessibility point of view and that works best with screen readers? I have been looking, and I need help finding consistency. Some say do not use alt=" with a figcaption, and some say it is OK. WCAG standards do not speak to this. There are times when attributions are needed for images. I have…
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🔦Customer Spotlight Event
⭐ ConvosWithCommunity: Video Note With Joe Sisco (UWindsor - Customer Spotlight) ⭐ We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, where we will be highlighting our amazing Brightspace Video Note Tool in a special Customer Spotlight event! Join us on March 30th, 2023 at 12PM ET for a 30-minute presentation showcasing…
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D2L Product Roadmap
🔔 Hey Community Members, 👉 Launching in a brand-new visual format on the D2L Community, the updated Product Roadmap will help D2L clients plan their teaching and learning priorities for the next quarter, semester, or school year with recent and upcoming feature launches in mind. 🙌 You’ve helped shape the roadmap for 2023…
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Using Anthology Ally with Brightspace?
Hello, At the last Brightspace Accessibility Interest Group meeting, someone had mentioned the Anthologies Ally tool that checks content for accessibility. This sounded like something that would be very useful to us, and we are beginning to look into this for our college (Central New Mexico Community College). Would anyone…
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Event Alert: Convos with Community: Hot Chocolate Edition☕
Hey Community Members, Come get toasty and warm up with us, as we share our latest Brightspace Community Newsletter: Hot Chocolate Edition! ☕ When ❓ ⭐TODAY ⭐ Wednesday February 15th from 11:30-12:30 EST Zoom Link Add to Calendar What ❓ 🗺️ We’ll take you on a tour of the brand-new Community space, highlighting changes and…
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Event: Let's Chat Metacognition
Event Alert Metacognitive skills are vitally important for meaningful learning! But how can we, as educators, facilitate our students' thinking about their thinking??Join us in the Brightspace Community on February 10th from 8:30-9:30 EST to connect with Research Fellows Emma O-Neill and Carmel Hensey from University…
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Natural Reader and Brightspace Templates
Good afternoon, all! We use Brightspace Templates (the newest version) for some of our training courses. We just received notice that students using Natural Reader are unable to navigate or read text aloud with the accordions. I cannot find any guidance on Brightspace Community. Does anyone have experience with this with…
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Recording from our December AIG meeting
Hi again. I posted this in the old community space, and realized that that would mean it wouldn't have made the trip to our new community space. So, allow me to post the recording from our December meeting again. It was a really good talk, so I want to make sure people can see it. Thanks again, everyone, for coming.…
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Information request:I recently had a question from our Counselling and Accessibility Services...
Information request: I recently had a question from our Counselling and Accessibility Services department regarding a student having problems with NVDA and the new HTML editor. I think this is a computer specific issue but I'd like to exhaust resources. I was not able to replicate this issue. The student is quite familiar…
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ReadSpeaker text to speech is coming to D2L Discussions!
Discussions – Reach every learner with the introduction of ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology! Check out the D2L release notes and the ReadSpeaker website for more information!
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Check out our 'Welcome' Resource!
Hey Community Members! 👋 Welcome to our new space! We’re thrilled you are here and excited to get you connected to so many resources that we’ve built to support YOU! 🎉 Check out our latest Learning Center offering, Introduction to Brightspace Community! What to Expect in this Resource: · Brightspace Community Overview ·…
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I am wondering if your institution is using an automated document conversion to alternate format...
I am wondering if your institution is using an automated document conversion to alternate format system/service such as Blackboard Ally or SensusAccess. I am not sure what other systems are available but would love to hear: What document system or service you use. Does it integrate with your LMS? Is it also available to…
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Question: Does anyone know about using Edge Read Aloud (text-to-speech) in the Brightspace quiz...
Question: Does anyone know about using Edge Read Aloud (text-to-speech) in the Brightspace quiz tool. Currently, Read Aloud will only read the question number and possible answers, but not the question itself, as shown in attached screenshot: I believe Edge Read Aloud used to be able to read the question. Does anyone have…
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Hi @Carin Headrick, I'm just wondering if we should have a meeting request in our calendars for...
Hi @Carin Headrick, I'm just wondering if we should have a meeting request in our calendars for this coming Thursday? Thank you! Stacey
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Technology changes fast! Older versions of our product may not bring the best experience in the...
Technology changes fast! Older versions of our product may not bring the best experience in the latest Brightspace quiz environments. For your students and educators to have the best possible experience, you are highly encouraged to move to the latest version of webReader. Upgrading can be done with a simple request, and…
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Hi All,
I would like to join this group! Please send me along meeting information!
Mary
Hi All,I would like to join this group! Please send me along meeting information!Mary
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Question for the group. What is the expected behaviour for screen readers in Brightspace HTML...
Question for the group. What is the expected behaviour for screen readers in Brightspace HTML areas (e.g. Module or Unit descriptions) when encountering an image that has been marked as decorative (alt="")? In testing with NVDA and JAWS in the Description area of a Unit in the New Content Experience, we noticed that the…
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Hi. I just wanted to pass on the link to the "Metacognitive Teaching and Learning Strategies"...
Hi. I just wanted to pass on the link to the "Metacognitive Teaching and Learning Strategies" course if you wanted to check it out beforehand.The course is available on the Brightspace Community website at https://community.desire2learn.com/d2l/home/17441. Please log in with your Community account and browse through the…
