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AI within UAL Supported Platforms.

AI capabilities are embedded in a number of UAL supported platforms and applications. Here is a guide to those AI tools, which includes: Copilot Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant that functions in a similar manner to ChatGPT. It can be accessed via the Edge browser or anywhere that you see this symbol: It can also […]

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Learning Design Principles: Spotlight on Universal Design for Learning

How can we create a learning environment that challenges and engages everyone?  In this blog post, we’re going to take a closer look at the learning design principle of Universal Design for Learning, consider how this might help us in the areas of inclusivity and accessibility, and reflect on possible take-aways that we could implement in […]

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Organising your Moodle page: Avoiding the “Scroll of Death”

It’s very easy to upload a large chunks of content into Moodle, without giving too much thought about what it’s like to navigate. Too much content can lead to the “Scroll of Death” and making content overwhelming and difficult to find. In this blog post, we’ll look at ways you can organise your content so […]

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Connecting Teams to Panopto

You can now connect your Teams account to Panopto, so that any recordings that you make automatically get copied across. The advantage of this, is that whilst Teams only keeps recordings for six months on Stream, Panopto stores them for 13 months (if the video is not viewed during this time, it is archived). For […]

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Educational Videos: Recap and Overview

Video content is a vital tool for learners and part of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The UDL framework, first defined by David H. Rose, Ed.D. of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in the 1990s, calls for creating a curriculum from the outset that provides: Research done by […]

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Academic Year 24-25: Digital Learning Things to know.

1 – Importing The digital learning team and the Course Support Administrators have completed the importing of content for course and unit sites. Those left blank are either new units or a unit with a change of name. Please contact us if you need support with importing or setting up a new site. 2 – […]