How to Use Panorama

Question

How do I use Panorama? 

How do students use Panorama? 

What are important features of Panorama? 

Answer

1. Panorama provides a highly similar experience for instructors and students.  For example, in Figure 1 below, the remediation interfaces function in much the same way:

   • Blackboard Ally Instructor Interface	YuJa Panorama Instructor Interface
     FIGURE 1:  Ally vs. Panorama Remediation Interfaces

2. Within a course, Panorama also uses similar severity indicators as Ally.  Figure 2 demonstrates Ally’s indicators, and Figure 3 demonstrates Panorama’s:

   • FIGURE 2:  Ally Severity Indicators

   • FIGURE 3:  Panorama Accessibility Severity Indicators

     
      
3. While Panorama uses a different convention, the indicators serve the same general purpose:
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• blue circle is for students to access alternative formats
• dark-green diamond is for an accessibility score of 100%
• green hexagon is for accessibility scores between than 67% to 99%
• yellow triangle is for accessibility scores between 34% and 66%
• red octagon is for accessibility scores less than or equal to 33%
• grey prohibition sign is for documents with disabled alternative formats

Students View:

The move to Panorama will only minimally impact students.  Like Ally, students only see the Panorama alternative formats icon (analogous to the Ally icon) to access a document in a variety of different formats.  NOTE:  only instructors and admins see the severity icons shown in the figures above.  As shown in Figure 5, Panorama provides a similar—albeit expanded—set of alternative formats:

• FIGURE 5:  Panorama Alternative Formats Menu

  Panorama’s Immersive Reader also provides a similar, yet enhanced experience.