Category: Digital Learning
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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: 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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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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