Category: Annoucements
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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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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: 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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Universal Design for Learning: Using Miro
Accessibility, All Articles, Digital Learning, Innovative Technology, Learning Design, Miro, Spotlight PostWelcome back to LCC’s Digital Learning team’s series on using digital learning platforms to help implement Universal Design for Learning principles in your teaching practice. In this post, our second in the series, we are focusing on using Miro. If you missed our first post on using Padlet, you can…
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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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Learning Design Principles: Spotlight on Universal Design for Learning
Accessibility, All Articles, Digital Learning, Learning Design, Spotlight Post, Teaching and LearningHow can we create a learning environment that challenges and engages everyone? In this blog post, we’re going to take a closer look at the learning design principle of Universal Design for Learning, consider how this might help us in the areas of inclusivity and accessibility, and reflect on possible take-aways…
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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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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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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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