Virtual practice placement experience
Terry Brown (Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy) Anna Hodkinson (Student Occupational Therapist) Overview of the context of the project/procedure All occupational therapy students must undertake 1000...
Category: Digital Accessibility
Ahead of Time and Specific Learning Differences (SpLD) Hub – new specialist support for dyslexia/dyspraxia/ADHD/dyscalculia
By Greg Jones. Specialist Study Skills Support Tutor, Team Leader. Ahead of Time (for students with SpLD): Ahead of Time is a video-based self-access module on Blackboard (Course Resources) with advice, tips and demonstrations from...
Accessibility in online learning during live synchronous sessions for deaf and hard of hearing students.
Dr Thomas Illingworth (Lecturer) Dr Elizabeth Marsh (Senior lecturer) Overview of the context of the project/procedure: As an institution the university had to adjust rapidly...
Creating more accessible content for online learning
Murtaza Afzali (Blackboard Ally Coordinator) Dr Emma Hyde (Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging/ Head of Diagnostic Imaging, Operating Department Practice & Osteopathy) Overview of the...
Creating and captioning videos using Panopto for flipped learning and revision summaries
By the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Team Panopto video recordings can be used as a flipped learning resource for teaching or can be a great...
Microsoft Lens – Digitise your work
By Dr Jordan Phethean (Lecturer in Economic Geology/Metamorphic Geology) With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the switch to 100 % remote learning, lecturers...
Audio Feedback in Turnitin
By Diana Conroy (Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy) In this short video, Diana Conroy (Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy) talks about her approach...
AccessAbility: Checking your modules accessibility score using Ally’s Accessibility Report
Great news! You can now check the overall accessibility score for your module content in Course Resources (Blackboard). Considering the Accessibility Regulations 2018 which came...
Student-Staff Partnerships Symposium, University of Surrey: A student perspective
By Faye Davies (VP Activities, Union of Students) and Emily Fisher (L6, BSc Forensic Science) Why is a whole conference needed on student/staff collaboration projects...
NEW: Review your confidence in aspects of inclusion and accessibility
The Jisc Discovery Tool has a new question set on accessibility and inclusion, helping you to reflect on these issues in relation to your job...