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....
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...
Teaching with Wikipedia
What was the purpose of the activity? In the summer of 2018, academic librarians Caroline Ball and Jon White delivered a workshop at the University’s Learning...
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...
AccessAbility: Our responsibilities – Accessibility Regulations 2018
From September 2018 the Government introduced the ‘Public Sector Bodies (Website and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018’, through this all ‘public sector websites and mobile...
Disrupting Education?
One of the key elements of DigiFest that provided my focus for the second day was a comment made during the keynote presentation “Netflix has disrupted broadcasting, Amazon has disrupted retail...
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...
Staff Digital Capability Discovery Tool
Discover your digital skills and capabilities! It is important for us all to continue to develop our digital capabilities to ensure we have the skills...