Recent articles about teaching and learning at LCC
What is digital accessibility? Digital accessibility means removing barriers to access and understand digital documents, activities and platforms by people who have a range of neuro-divergent needs and learning disabilities. For example, people with dyslexia often rely on clear headings, high contrast colours, and uncluttered backgrounds to help them navigate through dense content. It’s important we […]
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 […]
The central UAL Staff Development Team have created a series of sessions that can support your personal and professional development. For the full calendar please follow the link. https://canvas.arts.ac.uk/sites/explore/SitePage/58570/staff-development-event-list-page The next LCC staff development weeks will run from the 20th to the 31st of March and we hope to advertise the programme shortly. Please save […]
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 […]
Tomorrow at Chelsea Banqueting Hall (4.30 – 6.30) the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange will be welcoming colleagues to an event celebrating those who are recent recipients of AFHEA, FHEA and SFHEA fellowships, and PG Cert and MA graduates. This is the first of an annual event to to celebrate our colleagues. As part of […]
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 […]