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Ally Accessibility Check
Benefits of Ally Lone Star College-Online strives for an inclusive learning environment by championing the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). To support this effort, the college has adopted Ally, a tool in your D2L courses that...
Ally Frequently Asked Questions for Faculty
What is Ally? The same company (Blackboard) that created the Blackboard Learn Learning Management System (LMS), has created another product called Ally . Ally works seamlessly with many different LMS (such as D2L Brightspace) to gauge the acces...
File Conversion Tool
As you are posting materials online, you may need to convert files from one format to another - for accessibility, pedagogical, or various other reasons. As an example, you may want to convert a PDF file to an MP3 so students can access the material...
How Ally Works in D2L
Ally scans uploaded files (see supported formats below) and assigns an accessibility score and indicator (colored gauge icon) that is displayed to instructors near each supported file (see supported formats below) in the Content section of your D2L ...