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Reminder: Blackboard Original View Retires December 31, 2026

Migrate, Redesign, or Archive Original View Organizations

As announced in June 2025, Blackboard will retire Original courses and organizations on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, all Original content in courses and organizations will be...

November 3, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Qualtrics to Retire Legacy Reports

Key deadlines and next steps for Results Dashboards

Qualtrics is retiring Legacy Results Reports and transitioning users to Results Dashboards. As of November 1, 2026, users can no longer create new Legacy Results Reports or custom pages, and new...

November 2, 2026 · 3:20 PM

Print a Rubric for Saving or Grading in Blackboard’s November Update

Also available: Find any student in a group set

It’s week eight, and a student emails asking to move to a new project team. Every student in your 30-person group set is already assigned, so finding her means opening group after group until her...

October 29, 2026 · 11:07 AM

6 Ways to Make Humanities Content More Accessible

The text matters. So does whether students can reach it.

A student pulls up the assigned primary source the night before class: a scanned nineteenth-century pamphlet, photographed at an angle, half the page lost in shadow. She can make out maybe...

October 27, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Fix Your Content Day: A campus-wide day of course accessibility fixes

November 10th: 1,600 fixes. 160 courses. One day.

Fix Your Content Day is a campus-wide accessibility sprint happening on November 10, 2026. For one day, faculty and staff across UMBC will come together, virtually and in person, to tackle...

October 22, 2026 · 10:00 AM

6 Ways to Make Visual and Creative Media More Accessible

Art can challenge students without creating barriers.

A student opens the image for tomorrow's critique. The assignment asks her to analyze composition, contrast, and scale, but the image description says only, "abstract painting." She knows what...

October 20, 2026 · 4:59 PM

Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update

Keep AI conversations in the target language

Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...

October 15, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update

Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard

A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...

October 15, 2026 · 10:00 AM

6 Ways to Make Social Science Content More Accessible

Where evidence lives shouldn't decide who can reach it.

A student opens the assigned dataset the night before discussion, ready to test a hypothesis about voting patterns in urban counties. But the chart won't resize, the color-coded legend is...

October 13, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Feedback Requested: Digital Accessibility Communities of Practice in STEM and Music & Arts

Help inform the resources, tools, strategies & guidance

The University System of Maryland (USM) has launched its Digital Accessibility Communities of Practice in STEM and Music & Arts, bringing faculty together to identify challenges, share...

October 12, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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