{"id":9559,"date":"2025-08-20T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:39:54","slug":"blackboard-ally-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/2025\/08\/20\/blackboard-ally-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1925\" height=\"496\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2025\/06\/Inclusivity-and-Accessibility.png\" alt=\"Inclusivity and Accessibility banner\" class=\"wp-image-9442\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Ally\/Ally_for_LMS\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Ally\/Ally_for_LMS\">Blackboard Ally<\/a> continues to be a popular part of Blackboard with more staff and students making use of it during academic year 2024-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of downloads into alternative format more than doubled last year \u2013over 62,000 documents were downloaded into alternative formats.&nbsp; And over 4000 users used this option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff also made more use of the tools to fix accessibility issues in their courses \u2013 over 800 files were fixed last year (compared to 295 in 2024-25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time this year, the Blackboard Required Minimum Presence states that all Blackboard courses should have an Ally score of 70%. If you want to check your Ally score have a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/2025\/06\/03\/e-learning-policies-review-2025-26\/\">blog post<\/a>. You can also a book a place on one of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/training.aber.ac.uk\/\">E-learning Essentials: Introduction to Blackboard Ally<\/a><\/strong> training courses in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackboard Ally continues to be a popular part of Blackboard with more staff and students making use of it during academic year 2024-25. The number of downloads into alternative format more than doubled last year \u2013over 62,000 documents were downloaded into alternative formats.&nbsp; And over 4000 users used this option. Staff also made more use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1150,94,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-blackboard","category-virtual-learning-environmentvle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XLJV-2ub","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}