{"id":1406,"date":"2021-01-23T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2021-01-23T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:31:37","slug":"communication-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/2021\/01\/23\/communication-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here are some suggestions on how to introduce Ally to your students:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Send them an announcement at the beginning of the semester. You may include the following points: <ul><li>How alternative formats are beneficial to all &#8211; you may listen to the audio format while commuting or driving.<\/li><li>How to access the alternative formats. Refer to the &#8220;A&#8221; icon that appears beside the content.<\/li><li>Add link to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tOORcSEjtJU\" target=\"_blank\">Ally video for students on how to use alternative formats<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Add a statement about it in your course syllabus. <ul><li>For example: Students have access now to course content in other automatically generated formats like tagged PDFs (for screen readers), HTML, ePub (eBooks), electronic Braille and audio (mp3) versions. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>You can also add this image in your course introduction about alternative formats (image source: https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Ally\/Ally_for_LMS\/Student\/Alternative_Formats):<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Which_format_should_I_use.png\" alt=\"List of formats and which ones to use for different purposes\" class=\"wp-image-1409\" width=\"578\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Which_format_should_I_use.png 768w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Which_format_should_I_use-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><figcaption>https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Ally\/Ally_for_LMS\/Student\/Alternative_Formats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For technical issues, please refer the students to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/blackboard-for-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn Hub<\/a>, or advise them to send email to blackboard@aucegypt.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some suggestions on how to introduce Ally to your students: Send them an announcement at the beginning of the semester. You may include the following points: How alternative formats are beneficial to all &#8211; you may listen to the audio format while commuting or driving. How to access the alternative formats. Refer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ally","category-blackboard-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}