Utah Tech University

How Will Ally Help You?

What is Ally?

Embedded in Canvas, Ally helps to assess the accessibility of resources within a course. In addition, Ally provides instructions on how to improve the accessibility of a given learning resource.

For students, Ally provides an alternative accessible format(s) for resources added to the course.

For help and resources to make your course accessible, review the Accessibility Checklist here or contact Marc Lundstrom.

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How does Ally help?


What is Ally? And how does it help you? Review this quick video to get an understanding of how Ally can assist in making a course more accessible.

Or check out the Quick Start for Instructors page on Blackboard to read about Ally’s functionality and benefits.

Course Accessibility Report


Use the Accessibility Report to view an overall accessible score for a given course and identify ways to make resources more accessible.