Author: Sheila Smith
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Mentimeter Pilot
How can Menti be used? Mentimeter is a web-based interactive presentation tool designed to make meetings, lectures, and events more engaging by allowing real-time audience participation. Create interactive slides with polls, quizzes, word clouds, scales, and open-ended questions. UAL will be piloting Mentimeter for the 25/26 Academic year. Allowing staff…
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Digital Learning 25-26: Let’s Get You Ready
As we begin the new academic year, we’d like to share updates from the Digital Learning Team, including new projects, resources, and changes. These updates are designed to help you prepare, stay informed, and make the most of upcoming opportunities. 1. Moodle Gets a Makeover Over the summer, the team…
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Moodle Rollover 2025 – FAQs
Moodle Rollover – What is it? Rollover is when all the new course pages are set up for next academic year. This is based off the course data given by Quality. When does rollover happen? 8th July – Moodle downtime for upgrades and updates. 10th – 14th July – New…
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Universal Design For Learning: Using Padlet
Welcome to LCC’s Digital Learning team series on using digital learning platforms to promote and embed Universal Design for Learning principles. In this post the focus is on using Padlet. If you don’t have a UAL Padlet account, then please check out our guide to signing up and an introduction…
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AI within UAL Supported Platforms.
AI capabilities are embedded in a number of UAL supported platforms and applications. Here is a guide to those AI tools, which includes: Copilot Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant that functions in a similar manner to ChatGPT. There are two ways you can access co-pilot. You’ll need to login using…
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Educational Videos: Recap and Overview
Video content is a vital tool for learners and part of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The UDL framework, first defined by David H. Rose, Ed.D. of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in the 1990s, calls for creating a curriculum from the outset…
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Academic Year 24-25: Digital Learning Things to know.
1 – Importing The digital learning team and the Course Support Administrators have completed the importing of content for course and unit sites. Those left blank are either new units or a unit with a change of name. Please contact us if you need support with importing or setting up…
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Digital Champions: 23/24
Our third cohort of Digital Champions worked along side our key projects during last academic year. These projects where; Educational Videos, Moodle Template and Accessibility. The champions work have channeled the student voice into our project and moved several projects forward. The champions also worked as a group and looked…
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Moodle Rollover 2024 – FAQ
Moodle Rollover – What is it? Rollover is when all the new Moodle sites are set up for next academic year. This is based off the course data give by quality. When does roll over happen? 9th – 10th July – Moodle Downtime for upgrades and updates. 15th – 16th…
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Miro: Talktrack and Presentation Notes
Talktrack Talktrack is a new function on Miro that allows users to add a video to a frame. This works similar to cameo in PowerPoint. Anyone who has been added as part of the team for that board can add a Talktrack. This can be used for; This tool is…
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