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Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
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Create accessible documents using Apple Pages and Keynote.
What is digital accessibility? Digital accessibility means removing barriers to access and understand digital documents, activities and platforms by people who have a range of neuro-divergent needs and learning disabilities. For example, people with dyslexia often rely on clear headings, high contrast colours, and uncluttered backgrounds to help them navigate…
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Different ways to record your presentations
You’ve completed your PowerPoint, you’ve run your accessibility checks, and you’re about to save and upload it to Moodle, but have you considered saving it as a video? Educational videos have been shown to increase retention and engagement, particularly instructional videos. PowerPoint has some powerful options to add video and…
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UAL / LCC Staff Development Calendar
The central UAL Staff Development Team have created a series of sessions that can support your personal and professional development. For the full calendar please follow the link. https://canvas.arts.ac.uk/sites/explore/SitePage/58570/staff-development-event-list-page The next LCC staff development weeks will run from the 20th to the 31st of March and we hope to advertise…
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Achieve a 90% accessibility score this term
LCC has set an ambitious target of 90% accessibility for all it’s Moodle sites. The score is gathered by Ally, a plug-in that assesses the accessibility of documents, text, images, and videos on Moodle. The college’s goal is to reach this 90% before the end of the spring term. The…
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Celebrate our colleagues.
Tomorrow at Chelsea Banqueting Hall (4.30 – 6.30) the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange will be welcoming colleagues to an event celebrating those who are recent recipients of AFHEA, FHEA and SFHEA fellowships, and PG Cert and MA graduates. This is the first of an annual event to to celebrate…
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Accessibility: The Moodle Text Editor (Atto)
Ally, UAL’s digital accessibility checker, automatically checks your documents on Moodle for accessibility improvements, but did you know it also checks the text on your Moodle page? Approximately 30% of all accessibility issues on LCC Moodle sites are caused by the text we add through Moodle’s text editor tool, Atto…
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Learning with QR Codes
QR code or Quick Response Code was developed In 1994, by Japanese company DENSO WAVE. This kind of barcode can be scanned by smart phones to link to a webpage. It’s also really easy to generate a QR code like the one in the main image for this article. If…
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Latest features in Collaborate ULTRA
Gallery view Collaborate Ultra has introduced a new way of viewing participants – the Gallery view. Gallery view allows Moderators, Presenters, and Participants to see up to 25 participants at a time or to zoom in on fewer videos. Attendees can also scroll through as many as 250 active cameras…
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Student Digital Learning Champions – The Results
21/22 academic year saw the first cohort of Student Digital Learning Champions working with the LCC Digital Learning team. This was an enriching experience for both us and the students. The legacy of their projects, we want to keep alive in the coming academic year. Four Champions worked on 4…
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Ally: Digital Accessibility in Moodle
Digital accessibility is an essential component for an inclusive approach to teaching online. As Moodle is a website it must align with WCAG 2.1 Level AA guidelines. Our learning material must be digitally accessible so that it can be used by everyone, especially disabled and neurodiverse students, approximately 25% of…
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