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After all, “it's not just enough to put materials in Blackboard if it's not going to be accessible,” says Jennifer Albat, instructional designer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. And then we did some webinars for Blackboard Basic, Zoom, TechSmith Relay, and even Microsoft Teams.
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