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Accessibility: The Moodle Text Editor (Atto)

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 […]

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Learning with QR Codes

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 […]

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Latest features in Collaborate ULTRA

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 […]

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Student Digital Learning Champions – The Results

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 […]

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Ally: Digital Accessibility in Moodle

Digital accessibility is an essential component for an inclusive approach to teaching online. As Moodle is a website it must align with WCAG 2.1 Level AA guidelines. Our learning material must be digitally accessible so that it can be used by everyone, especially disabled and neurodiverse students, approximately 25% of UAL students. The average Ally […]

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Anti-racism & digital learning

Within the digital learning profession there is interest in ‘race & tech’ generally, topics such as AI and racial bias for example, and in tackling structural racism in our own sector. Two years ago members of the UK HE digital learning community formed a community of practice around anti-racism which was formalised as a special […]