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Recording of Changemakers Talk

A recording of June’s Changemakers Talk: Decolonising the Curriculum London x Kent is now available. The public panel discussion was hosted by London College of Communication on Thursday 23 June 2022. In this event, LCC Changemakers Cassia Clarke and Rachel Roland Martins and managers Lucy Panesar and Amita Nijhawan are in conversation with Dr Dave […]

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Colour Change

17% of students have declared themselves as being Dyslexic at UAL which is on par with the national figure of 16%. However the number of people working in the creative industry who are neurodiverse is higher with some reports doubling the figure to 32%. Which is a 3rd of the work force.  Another group to be […]

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Helping Students with Digital Submissions

Have you received a ‘help‘ email from a student trying to submit their work online? Here’s how you can help: The Digital Space When to recommend the student contact The Digital Space Is the student having difficulty uploading their work? Does the student need help condensing their file? Did the student upload the wrong document […]

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Make Accessibility a Habit: PDF Files

The predominant file type on Moodle is PDF. In 2021, there we as many as 10,821 PDFs on LCC Moodle sites alone, which is roughly equivalent to 16 PDFs per site! Providing we have carried out the accessibility checks and followed good practice with Word documents and Presentation slides layout then your documents should gat […]

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Using Moodle Workshops for peer and self-assessment

This article introduces the Moodle Workshop, a powerful tool for formative assessment, peer-feedback, and self-evaluation. Many of us are either thinking it or have heard it mentioned before – formative feedback. For those who aren’t familiar, formative feedback is any form of feedback given prior to an assessment which helps students refine their work and […]

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New Slides on Mentimeter

The popular platform of mentimeter have just launched a range of new slide options. Mentimeter is great for making your lectures more interactive. As well as polls, quiz questions, true or false and my personal favourite word cloud; you can now do a wider range of other options. In this post we are going to […]