Course Resources Template Upgrade – Important Information
Dear Colleague, Your module template will look different for on-campus modules starting in September 2019. In this short series of articles we’ll take you through...
Category: Digital Systems
Apps for Digital Wellbeing
Here are a couple of apps mentioned by Ruby Granger – gamify study, sleep and time away from your phone, helping to get better balance with your smartphone...
Student Digital Capability Discovery Tool
Following on from the recent release of a staff Digital Capability Discovery Tool, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching are pleased to announce we now...
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,...
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...
AccessAbility: What is the Microsoft Accessibility Checker and how can it help me?
The Accessibility Checker is a tool in Microsoft Office designed to help make content accessible. We are all responsible for ensuring learning content can be accessed by...