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What is Adobe Creative Cloud?

The creative apps in Adobe Creative Cloud empower students and educators to develop powerful presentations, photography, illustrations, movies and videos, and web applications. Integrating Adobe Creative Cloud with Blackboard LMS provides students and educators with quick and easy access to their creative work. Students and educators can access their Creative Cloud apps within Blackboard and use them to create and complete their assignments.

Can I use Adobe Creative Cloud with Blackboard?

As the institution’s or school district’s IT admin, you must integrate Blackboard with Adobe Creative Cloud for your educators and students to be able to access Adobe applications within Blackboard. Once the integration is done, the educators and students can easily find and access their Creative apps within their Blackboard courses.

Your Instructor

As a Lecturer and Learning Technologist with a background in design/digital art & animation, when teaching I often draw upon my design skills in order to create content that is visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive.

Frequently Asked Questions

The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.

What is a PDF file?

PDF (portable document format) is an open standard for formatting documents. PDF creates files that look the same when printed as when exchanged electronically. When you share a PDF file, almost everyone can read it using free Adobe Reader® software or the Adobe Reader mobile app.

How to create a link in Word?

It is easy to create links in Word by pasting the full URL into a page. When you press space or Enter, Word automatically creates a link. Change the link text to something descriptive because the URL that is automatically created may not make sense to a screen reader.

Why do we use tags in a document?

Screen readers use tags to convey an information hierarchy of a document to users so that they can understand the organization of the material.

What is an accessible document?

When your document is formatted using styles and tags, it will be accessible to your users who rely on assistive technology such as screen reading applications (screen readers). Accessible documents have a structure that is based on styling elements or tags. This structure provides a hierarchy of information.

How to type alt text in Word?

In most versions of Word, right-click an image and select Format Picture... In the dialog box, select the option for Alt Text, and then type in your alt text. Be specific and succinct so that users will quickly understand what is being described.

Why are tables not used in Word?

In accessible documents, tables are never used for formatting layout on a page because it is difficult for screen readers to understand the information architecture and what is being presented. Tables are only used to present data. For screen readers to interpret data in a table so that users can understand how the data is organized, the screen reader needs to be able to identify which cells are part of the header row and which cells contain data. You can indicate that a row repeats on the top of each page in the Table Properties menu in Word. When saved as a PDF, the first row is detected as a table header. If the Word file is saved as HTML, the table headers are not maintained. Instead, the cells are tagged as <thead>. Data cells are tagged as <tbody>.

Does Word 2010 have an accessibility checker?

If you are using Windows, Word 2010 has a built-in Accessibility Checker. This is a good resource to help you identify and repair accessibility issues. Access the Accessibility Checker from Files > Info > Check for Issues > Check Accessibility.