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...
Category: Student Experience
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,...
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...
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...
AccessAbility: What is Ally and how can it help me?
Ally is a tool in Course Resources designed to help make content accessible. We are all responsible for ensuring learning content can be accessed by all our...
Reminder: Festival of Learning 2019 – Call for Contributions
For 2019, the University of Derby Learning and Teaching Conference has evolved…. into a Festival of Learning! CELT will host the Festival at our Buxton Campus on...