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Greetings: For the tools that integrate into our systems-specifically our LMS, but also SSO, etc.-at a minimum, we require a signed agreement to be in place before those integrations can be used. This is done specifically for the reasons you cite, but also due to the fact that many EULA/click-through ...

Greetings: I just wanted to echo Heather's experience with Ally, though we have only been using it for three years. In that time, we've seen hardly any substantive updates and there are still numerous areas that are incomplete (i.e., instructions on how to remediate common HTML issues have been listed ...

Greetings: I just wanted to add that Ally also has a component for websites external to the LMS: https://help.blackboard.com/Ally/Ally_for_Websites. When we adopted Ally for LMS, we briefly looked at this, but most of our institutions were already tools built/integrated into their CMS (content management ...

H5P might also be an option: https://h5p.org/content-types/crossword And has lots of other great tools as well, though not every one is accessible: https://help.h5p.com/hc/en-us/articles/7505649072797-Content-types-recommendations Another caveat: they do explicitly state that these have only ...

Greetings: I believe Respondus can do Word documents as long they are properly formatted. I'm not sure it can do PDFs, though. NOTE: the tool itself is a bit clunky and only works on Windows, though, but we've had a lot of success with it, especially during the pandemic. Thanks, Eric -- ...

Greetings, all: The Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of South Dakota is hiring! We're looking for an Educational Technology Integrationist to facilitate workshops and help our faculty solve both the pedagogical and technological challenges they face. For more information please view ...

Laura: Feel free to respond to me off of the group, but just to note a few things: The South Dakota Board of Regents has been using D2L/Brightspace since 2007, so we have quite a bit of experience with all aspects of the LMS, including digital accessibility and assistive technology. We were ...

Chris: Please see my responses regarding how our institution handles orientation: Do you have an orientation for your faculty to teach online? If so, is it available only to employees who can authenticate, or is it available to the world so pre-hires can take it? Yes, all faculty teaching ...

Greetings! South Dakota Board of Regents guidelines allow access up to thirty days before the start of the semester and thirty days after the end of the semester. Instructors ultimately determine exactly when within this window students can access their courses, though, as they control when their ...