Category: Digital Learning
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Microsoft Loop in Teams Chat
Microsoft loop is a great collaborative tool which has just been rolled out to Teams. It allows users to add a component to a chat which other people can edit and add to. This tool is of particular benefit if you run your tutorial groups or other small group meetings…
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Make accessibility a habit: Power Point
As with word documents you want to make your presentations accessible. If you follow a few simple guideline during the design process your presentations will be easier to read and process for everyone. In this blog post we are going to look at the following; Font Size Contrasting Colours Alternative…
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Integrated Dictation Tools
Dictation or speech to text is often a forgotten about tool. If you or your students are visually impaired or you find it useful to verbally express your thoughts or for notetaking, then it’s worth exploring dictation tools. It can also be used for giving formative feedback on word and…
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Managing tutorials with Moodle Scheduler
This article introduces Moodle Scheduler, a tool for scheduling meetings and tutorials with students. Organising student tutorials can be frustrating when you don’t always know who is going to show up and when. Sometimes timings get muddled or multiple people turn up for the same appointment, which is why it…
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Using the Moodle Wiki for collaborative sharing and editing
This article introduces the Moodle Wiki, a versatile tool for group work, collaborative research, or building a database of shared knowledge. Collaborative tools like Miro and Padlet are becoming increasingly popular, but often these tools involve students contributing individually rather than working collaboratively. If you’re looking for a truly collaborative…
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Capitalise on Captions
Captions for video content are embedded into everyday media consumption such as YouTube, Netflix and other social media platforms. As much as 92% of videos on mobile devices are viewed without sound. Therefore when students come into learning environments they have the expectation of captions on their educational media. It…
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Using Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams
It can be a bit annoying coming out of teams to go to another platform such as whiteboard. Sharing links and waiting for people to open browsers can slow down the flow of a lesson. Now Whiteboard has full integration. If you want to do some quick ideas capture, discussion…
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What the data says: student learning experiences in the first year of COVID-19
In September 2021, the data analytics team at JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) which provides digital resources and support to HE institutions released their most anticipated annual report yet, the Student Digital Experience Insights Survey 2020/21 (see the full report; 10 pages, 8Mbs). The report summarises nearly 39,000 responses from…
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Make accessibility a habit: Word Documents
Making your documents more accessible is not just about running them through accessibility checkers, it’s about making it a habit. If you only run your documents through an accessibility checker, then you are only doing half the job. You need to write for all in the way you layout and…
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Netiquette: it’s a thing
At this year’s ALT (Association for Learning Technology) conference which ran 7-9th September the phrase Netiquette kept coming up. At first, I thought I had misheard it or there was some mispronunciation. It kept coming up. During the session on Future Pedagogical Imaginings somewhere between Blended and Hy-flex, I wrote in my notebook – Netiquette it’s thing. Do you remember your first…
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