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You’ve completed your PowerPoint, you’ve run your accessibility checks, and you’re about to save and upload it to Moodle, but have you considered saving it as a video? Educational videos have been shown to increase retention and engagement, particularly instructional videos. PowerPoint has some powerful options to add video and audio to your presentation. These […]
LCC has set an ambitious target of 90% accessibility for all it’s Moodle sites. The score is gathered by Ally, a plug-in that assesses the accessibility of documents, text, images, and videos on Moodle. The college’s goal is to reach this 90% before the end of the spring term. The current Ally score for LCC […]
Ally, UAL’s digital accessibility checker, automatically checks your documents on Moodle for accessibility improvements, but did you know it also checks the text on your Moodle page? Approximately 30% of all accessibility issues on LCC Moodle sites are caused by the text we add through Moodle’s text editor tool, Atto (Fig. 1). Ally identifies these […]
QR code or Quick Response Code was developed In 1994, by Japanese company DENSO WAVE. This kind of barcode can be scanned by smart phones to link to a webpage. It’s also really easy to generate a QR code like the one in the main image for this article. If you scan it, you will […]
Gallery view Collaborate Ultra has introduced a new way of viewing participants – the Gallery view. Gallery view allows Moderators, Presenters, and Participants to see up to 25 participants at a time or to zoom in on fewer videos. Attendees can also scroll through as many as 250 active cameras using arrows on the side […]
21/22 academic year saw the first cohort of Student Digital Learning Champions working with the LCC Digital Learning team. This was an enriching experience for both us and the students. The legacy of their projects, we want to keep alive in the coming academic year. Four Champions worked on 4 projects. Although the Digital Learning […]