Alternative Formats (Ultra)

What are alternative formats and how are they generated?

Course accessibility tools (Blackboard Ally) use advanced machine learning algorithms to automatically provide both you and your students with access to a range of alternative formats for compatible content uploaded to Learn.UQ (Blackboard). For more information, refer to the Alternative Formats guide by Anthology.

New and existing content uploaded to your Learn.UQ course is automatically scanned and alternative formats are made available to download for the following file types:

PDF files
Microsoft Word files
Microsoft Powerpoint files
OpenOffice/LibreOffice files
Uploaded HTML files
Content within Ultra documents

Which alternative formats can students download?

Tip: Refer your students to the Getting started with Learn.UQ student guide for more information

Students can download the following alternative formats for compatible course content:

OCR’d PDF (for scanned documents)
Tagged PDF (currently for Word, Powerpoint and OpenOffice/LibreOffice files)
Immersive Reader
Mobile-friendly HTML
Audio
ePub
Electronic Braille
BeeLine Reader

Note: The translated version alternative format is not currently enabled at UQ.