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Discover how accessible your digital content really is

Here's a quick challenge: close your laptop trackpad, put your mouse to the side, and try to get through the next ten minutes using only your keyboard. Can you navigate to your Blackboard...

September 15, 2026 · 1:01 PM

USM Accessibility in Action - September 2026 Issue

Accessibility moves from planning into practice

Repost from the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and the USM Digital Accessibility Work Group September 2026 Issue As the fall semester gets underway, accessibility moves from...

September 14, 2026 · 11:38 AM

Call for Abstracts: Generative AI Pedagogy in Practice

USM Kirwan Center seeks contributions for open collection

Faculty across Maryland higher education are actively exploring how generative AI may change teaching, learning, assessment, academic integrity, course design, and student engagement. As these...

September 9, 2026 · 10:30 AM

UDL at the Heart: Designing Learning with Every Student in Mind

Small design changes. Massive student impact.

Students don't all learn in the same way. They bring different experiences, strengths, needs, expectations, technologies, and approaches to learning into our courses. Yet many course designs still...

September 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

[Online-Insights] 5 Ways to Co-Create Communication Norms

Establish expectations early to build community and trust

Every student arrives in an online course with their own sense of what "respectful" or "professional" communication looks like, shaped by culture, prior schooling, workplace norms, and plenty of...

September 3, 2026 · 3:45 PM

New Publication Examines UMBC’s Approach to Microcredential Integration

7 Uses of Microcredentials Across Campus

A new case study by Collin Sullivan and Felipe Filomeno examines how UMBC has integrated microcredentials across academic, co-curricular, and community-engaged learning experiences. From Campus...

September 3, 2026 · 10:05 AM

5 Things to Check After Blackboard Ally Gives You the Green Light

Ally catches a lot. A few important checks still need you.

You launched the Ally course accessibility report, worked through the flagged issues, and watched your score climb to 85% or higher. Green across the board! It feels like the job is done. But a...

September 1, 2026 · 2:59 PM

One Ecosystem, Six Perspectives — Wrapping Up the LER Brief Series

A recap, and what this all adds up to

This is the seventh and final post in our series on the new LER briefs. Over the past several weeks, we've looked at UMBC's microcredential work through five different lenses — faculty,...

August 26, 2026 · 8:35 AM

6 Tips for Troubleshooting Common Ally Errors

Ally flagged it. What to do when guidance isn’t enough

Blackboard Ally is one of the most useful tools in your course accessibility toolkit. It scans your content, flags potential barriers, and offers step-by-step guidance for fixing them. However, ...

August 25, 2026 · 2:12 PM

Meet the 2026–27 UMBC Analytics Mini Grant Recipients

Six projects turning UMBC data into action

To help UMBC turn data into action across teaching, faculty support, and administrative operations, the Division of Information Technology and Office of the Provost have selected six projects for...

August 25, 2026 · 12:55 PM

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