Instructional Video
Instructional videos are a great tool to assist students to gain knowledge on complex technical skills by using a “how to” format. These types of videos...
Video Content in your Learning and Teaching
Video with Experts Video within your learning and teaching content is a great way to engage your students in a different way to more traditional...
Evaluating the Student Digital Experience at the University of Derby
The Jisc Digital Experience Insights Survey provides an opportunity to ask students and staff about their digital experiences at the University. Alongside surveying our staff, it also...
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...
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...