Video-based assignments
Video-based assignments provide an effective medium for students to demonstrate their understanding of learned concepts. This form of assignment assists promoting student creativity and can...
Month: April 2019
AccessAbility: Adding ALT text to images
One of the most common issues identified by Ally is that images do not have alternative text associated with them. This text is ‘read’ by...
AccessAbility: Planning and delivering accessible Blackboard Ultra sessions
Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver online sessions with your students can help to bring together students at a distance whilst still enabling them to...
AccessAbility: Making recordings more inclusive
Recording teaching content, whether in the classroom or from your desk, and making recordings available to students, can give students the opportunity to re-watch content,...
What’s in a name? The DELTA: Pathfinder Scheme
Amidst the action-packed launch event of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching back in September of last year was the announcement that Derby’s HEA CPD...
Reflections of a PAL
The University is progressing the roll out of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) across programmes. It’s already up and running in a few areas, notably supporting...
AccessAbility: Course Overview
Ally are currently working on developing a course overview providing every module area in Course Resources with an overall accessibility score. This will be a...
AccessAbility: What are the common accessibility issues Ally identifies?
Ally provides the institution with a report helping us to identify the common accessibility issues within the content on Course Resources. We thought it would...
AccessAbility: Helpful online course
We have provided you with a number of tools to support you in improving the accessibility of your learning materials. As well as using these it can...
Videos to encourage discussion or increase engagement
Videos are a great tool to use within learning and teaching as they have the potential to encourage discussion or increase engagement amongst the students....