Category: Digital Accessibility

The new digital education landscape – reflections on the 2022 UCISA Technology Enhanced Learning pulse survey

In December 2022, I chaired a webinar for the UCISA Digital Education Group to present and discuss the findings from the 2022 UCISA Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) pulse survey. In the webinar, we heard from three heads of digital learning – Amy Sampson from Falmouth University, Andy Jaffrey from Ulster University and Vicky Brown from…Continue Reading The new digital education landscape – reflections on the 2022 UCISA Technology Enhanced Learning pulse survey

How could we enable City students to work and connect together? A pinch of Teams space, a Teaspoon of redesign and a Dollop of trial and error.

Teams Sites - Who, What, When, How and Why?

Have you found yourself asking this question, “Should I implement Microsoft Teams, into my Moodle Module and what’s the point?” Or why would I? Many Programme Leaders and Lecturers ask themselves this same question, and this post aims to tell you about a Teams Sites evaluation conducted at City, University of London. We will help…Continue Reading How could we enable City students to work and connect together? A pinch of Teams space, a Teaspoon of redesign and a Dollop of trial and error.

Calling all London Mugglers and Anthology Ally Users

The lunch bell is ringing at City, University of London. Are you a Moodle and Ally user?  If so we’d like to welcome you to a London Moodle Ally User group, held onsite at City, University Of London. We have a capacity of 20 places and are inviting all those working with Ally, primarily on…Continue Reading Calling all London Mugglers and Anthology Ally Users

Moving towards digitally accessible Moodle modules: Reaching “Net-zero” severe issues

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All students have a right to take part in their education at an equal level. It is important to ensure that the learning environment is designed so that all students can participate fully. How are we doing overall at City? We have had a whole term with our new friendly Ally accessibility tool in Moodle….Continue Reading Moving towards digitally accessible Moodle modules: Reaching “Net-zero” severe issues

Announcing our Big Hello winners! And more digital accessibility goodies

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To welcome our new and returning students at City, the DA team ran a short prize draw In September and October. Students were invited to complete the first course topic on our Introduction to Accessibility Moodle module and share some feedback on their impressions. Provided they did the above, they were entered into a prize…Continue Reading Announcing our Big Hello winners! And more digital accessibility goodies

From the Archive: Alternative formats for students using Anthology Ally on City’s Moodle

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From the DA team: this blog was originally published on 21 June 2022 and last updated on 27 October 2022. What are alternative formats on Anthology Ally? Anthology Ally is an online tool on your Moodle modules. It offers an alternative formats tool that you can use to change the format of Moodle resources, such…Continue Reading From the Archive: Alternative formats for students using Anthology Ally on City’s Moodle

Start the year right: accessible and inclusive practice workshops on offer

From pedagogical behaviourally focused teaching to document remediation and alternatives to time-based media, LEaD’s Digital Education Team regularly run workshops on developing accessible and inclusive practices. It’s incredible that we are only two years into our digital accessibility project. It has kept us so busy it feels like a lot longer, in a good way….Continue Reading Start the year right: accessible and inclusive practice workshops on offer

3 things you can do to help dyslexic people

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Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing, and spelling. It’s a specific learning difficulty, which means it causes problems with certain abilities used for learning, such as reading and writing (NHS, 2022)   It’s estimated up to 1 in every 10 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia….Continue Reading 3 things you can do to help dyslexic people

Top Tips to make your Moodle Module Accessible

Welcome back and a spring term update, One small change is that the Ally tool is now called Anthology Ally, previously it was called Blackboard Ally. This post is for staff designing and refreshing their Moodle modules, readying for the new academic year and new term. It has been compiled by the Digital Accessibility Project…Continue Reading Top Tips to make your Moodle Module Accessible

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Alt this activity card: Ask students to write alternative text (Alt-Text) for a provocative image relating to the subject. Encourage students to create a meaningful description and consider any assumptions and bias that may arise while doing this.

Last month, I was fortunate to attend and present at the Advance HE Teaching & Learning conference 2022 with my colleague Maria Kaffa, the rising star in our digital accessibility team. The overarching theme across all three days of the conference was on Enhancing student success through student engagement. I attended some sensational sessions, but…Continue Reading Wicked, wicked educationalist massive