Author: Scott Simmonds
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Universal Design for Learning: Moodle
This month we continue our Universal Design for Learning series by taking a look at how you can use three Moodle activities. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that aims to make learning accessible, inclusive, and challenging for all learners. To do this, UDL encourages you to…
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Organising your Moodle page: Avoiding the “Scroll of Death”
It’s very easy to upload a large chunks of content into Moodle, without giving too much thought about what it’s like to navigate. Too much content can lead to the “Scroll of Death” and making content overwhelming and difficult to find. In this blog post, we’ll look at ways you…
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Connecting Teams to Panopto
You can now connect your Teams account to Panopto, so that any recordings that you make automatically get copied across. The advantage of this, is that whilst Teams only keeps recordings for six months on Stream, Panopto stores them for 13 months (if the video is not viewed during this…
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Moodle Autumn Clean
It’s almost the start of a new term. Your Moodle sites have been rolled over, and it’s now the perfect time to have an Autumn (Spring) clean! It’s easy to use Moodle as a repository for your files, but over the years this can lead to a lot of content…
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Miro: AI Assist
Miro has introduced an AI Assistant, with a range of features that can be used on your boards. AI assist is only on the Enterprise license. You will need to have a Miro UAL education account in order to use this function. Accessing AI Assist AI Assist, can be accessed…
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Moodle Reports
Moodle has a number of inbuilt reports that you can use to gather information such as: Detailed accessibility information Course participation Activity usage General student engagement Reports can be accessed by going to the Course Menu > Reports. From here you will see a number or reports that can be…
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PowerPoint Live with Subtitles and Captions
Many of our students have English as a second or third language. They can often struggle with having a full understanding of a lecture. It can also be cognitively exhausting. Other students are also translating for them. Those with hearing impairments will find it easier to follow a lecture with…
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What’s new in Padlet?
Padlet has introduced several new features in its Autumn update, a summary of which can be seen below. Content Creation and Organization: Sharing and Collaboration: Enhanced Features and Performance: For a full breakdown of the new features released in the winter update, read the Padlet blog here.
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