Presentations

Accessibility Presentations

Presentations about the Blackboard Learning Management System

Introduction to Blackboard Ally
Webinar introducing the Blackboard Ally tool, what it does, how it can be used, and why it matters.
Color Me Impressed?
Sharing a new approach for consistent and accessible Blackboard course menu colour schemes specific to faculties, departments, or subject areas. Presented at the inaugural meeting of the Blackboard European Usergroup.
The Practical “Bluffer’s Guide” to Blackboard Theme Accessibility
Presented at Blackboard World 2020.
The Bluffer’s Guide to Blackboard Theme Accessibility
Presented at Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference 2020. With the rapid move to online teaching, ensuring equitable access to our learning environment has never been more important. Recent legislation has brought an accessibility requirement for public sector organisations such as Universities. How can we ensure that our Blackboard environment reflects our institutional brand whilst following accessibility guidelines?
Better Blackboard Help: Where your users need it, when they want it.
IT departments in the Higher Education sector and elsewhere know they must commit to accessibility, but how can we take this ambition and embed it within our operations?
Introduction to Blackboard Collaborate for University of Southampton Staff.
I was asked to put on a webinar about Collaborate. This was in the middle of April 2020 when we had just implemented it and were in the middle of our SaaS migration project. I recorded this video instead early on a Sunday morning. Since then it has had more than 3000 views. As Collaborate has been updated many times since then, much of the content is now out of date.
Blackboard accessibility beyond Ally
Presented at the Blackboard Mobile and Collaborate Usergroup during the Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2020.
A Bluffer's Guide to Customising the 2016 Blackboard Theme
Presented at Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference 2019, alongside Sam Cole and Ester Muñoz.
Upgrade Club
Delivered at Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference 2018. About upgrading Blackboard back when we hosted the application ourselves.

Presentations on other topics

Digital diligence: guidance on using ‘unsupported’ tools
My presentation during a Future Teacher webinar on how Universities can cope with the wide range of 'unsupported tools' that staff may wish to use.