Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
The daffodils’ and the snow drops are out, but we don’t want our Moodle pages accessibilities scores to drop. During the spring break many of you will be uploading material for the summer term onto Moodle. Make sure you are checking your documents and making them as accessible as possible. Power Points Presentations Run the […]
Moodle has a number of inbuilt reports that you can use to gather information such as: Detailed accessibility information Course participation Activity usage General student engagement Reports can be accessed by going to the Course Menu > Reports. From here you will see a number or reports that can be run. Accessibility report This will […]
Many of our students have English as a second or third language. They can often struggle with having a full understanding of a lecture. It can also be cognitively exhausting. Other students are also translating for them. Those with hearing impairments will find it easier to follow a lecture with captions, will also benefit from […]
Padlet has introduced several new features in its Autumn update, a summary of which can be seen below. Content Creation and Organization: Over 100 new templates are available for you to choose from. Each template has pre-set sections and privacy settings, and comes with instructions on how to get the best use out of it. […]
Panopto is UAL’s video sharing platform. It’s where we can host our educational videos and link them to our Moodle sites. There has been some good practice and examples of types of educational videos across LCC during 22/23. The benefits for students is being able to recall the information, having guidance they can replay, being […]
Images on Moodle pages can set the tone and context of a unit. Also, they can be used for critical analysis and examples for ideation or inspiration. Some programme areas need to be able to bring their subject alive with images. This post focuses on different Moodle tools to allow for galleries of images rather than having […]