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Accessibility: Spring Clean Your Moodle Pages
The daffodils’ and the snow drops are out, but we don’t want our Moodle pages accessibilities scores to drop. During the spring break many of you will be uploading material for the summer term onto Moodle. Make sure you are checking your documents and making them as accessible as possible.…
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Moodle Reports
Moodle has a number of inbuilt reports that you can use to gather information such as: Detailed accessibility information Course participation Activity usage General student engagement Reports can be accessed by going to the Course Menu > Reports. From here you will see a number or reports that can be…
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PowerPoint Live with Subtitles and Captions
Many of our students have English as a second or third language. They can often struggle with having a full understanding of a lecture. It can also be cognitively exhausting. Other students are also translating for them. Those with hearing impairments will find it easier to follow a lecture with…
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What’s new in Padlet?
Padlet has introduced several new features in its Autumn update, a summary of which can be seen below. Content Creation and Organization: Sharing and Collaboration: Enhanced Features and Performance: For a full breakdown of the new features released in the winter update, read the Padlet blog here.
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Educational Videos : Sharing Good Practice
Panopto is UAL’s video sharing platform. It’s where we can host our educational videos and link them to our Moodle sites. There has been some good practice and examples of types of educational videos across LCC during 22/23. The benefits for students is being able to recall the information, having…
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Moodle Tools for Displaying Images
Images on Moodle pages can set the tone and context of a unit. Also, they can be used for critical analysis and examples for ideation or inspiration. Some programme areas need to be able to bring their subject alive with images. This post focuses on different Moodle tools to allow for galleries…
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Accessibility: Make your Moodle site accessible
As we work on the accessibility of our documents and PDF’s we should also take some time to look at the Moodle site itself. In this post we will talk your through what to think about to boost the inclusiveness of the page. This includes: Recite Me Format Atto text…
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23/24 Academic Year – 10 things you need to know
Over the summer Moodle 4.1 has arrived. Some of the mechanics of how we set up things like groups, labels and move items have changed. The Digital Learning team have also been working on our project priorities for this academic year. So here are 10 things you need to know…
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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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