Join us for our next half-day user conference at the Region One ESC. During our time together, you'll hear website, mass notification, and mobile app best practices and updates, get insights from others who have made strides with digital accessibility and school safety, and have plenty of time to get all your technical questions answered from your Blackboard product experts. Walk away with the knowledge you need to strengthen your overall communication strategies for the current school year and beyond.

· 9:30 AM: Registration and introductions—refreshments served
· 10:00 AM: Web Community Manager
• Multimedia gallery app
• Google integration – and maybe Mike or Jeff can discuss what we are working on with the repair functionlity
• New editing experience and Mike or Jeff can discuss the design work being done right now to the main framework. Any plans to sunset old editor?
• Stop putting everything in a content app… the new way of structuring a page with layouts and apps.
• Content Accordion App
11:30 AM: Accessibility best practices
• Alt text on images
• Using Tables
• Proper use of headers and picking a specific way to lay a page out
• Captioning on videos
12:00 PM: lunch and then go into Ally for accessibility and Safety list overview

1:00 PM: Mass Notification and Mobile Communications App
• Product updates – what are the main priorities Jeff and Mike?
• Smore integration – Make sure to touch on paid partnership and free only to a certain point
• Best practices for mobile app updates and promotion
• New icons or make your own icons
• Data best practices and turning notification on and off for summer
• Data cleanup for Summer?
· 2:30 PM: User group concludes


Lunch and refreshments are included for this complimentary event, giving you the fuel you need to learn, share, and be inspired by your peers, product experts, and industry partners.

Invite your colleagues! We look forward to seeing you on April 24th.

Agenda

9:30 AM: Registration and introductions—refreshments served
10:00 AM: Web Community Manager
Multimedia gallery app
Google integration
New editing experience
New website templates and more
11:30 AM: Accessibility best practices
12:00 PM: Networking lunch
12:30 PM: Intro to Blackboard SafetyList
1:00 PM: Mass Notification and Mobile Communications App
Product updates
Smore integration
Best practices for mobile app updates and promotion
2:00 PM: Community Engagement product breakouts
2:30 PM: User group concludes

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