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Effective Monday, July 14, 2025 MATC faculty, staff and students will log into Blackboard using their MATC email address, password and now DUO.
As of June 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Americans with Disabilities Act requires all digital course content to meet Web Content Accessibility standards. Faculty may use Ally to scan, prioritize, and address accessibility challenges in course content.
What is Ally?
What is Ally?
Accessibility is term defining the quality of a product or service's usability. Ally is a tool integrated with Blackboard Ultra course and master shells. Faculty use Ally to proactively improve the accessibility of uploaded documents, images, text, and tables with built-in feedback and support. Students can also use Ally to download alternative document formats for their ease of use. If you have any questions about Ally, contact onlinelearning@matc.edu.
Instructions & Support for Faculty
Instructions & Support for Faculty
How Students Access Ally
How Students Access Ally
When students view courses in Blackboard, students can click on the Ally symbol wherever text, image, link, and file content is present to access their choice of alternative document format, such as speech-to-text MP3 audio, machine translated language, electronic braille, beeline reader, and immersive reader. See the following links and embedded video for details.
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