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PowerPoint Live with Subtitles and Captions

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 […]

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What’s new in Padlet?

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. […]

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Educational Videos : Sharing Good Practice

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 […]

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Moodle Tools for Displaying Images

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 […]

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Accessibility: Make your Moodle site accessible

As we work on the accessibility of our documents and PDF’s we should also take some time to look at the Moodle site itself. In this post we will talk your through what to think about to boost the inclusiveness of the page. This includes: Recite Me Format Atto text editor Images Recite Me First, […]

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23/24 Academic Year – 10 things you need to know

Over the summer Moodle 4.1 has arrived. Some of the mechanics of how we set up things like groups, labels and move items have changed. The Digital Learning team have also been working on our project priorities for this academic year. So here are 10 things you need to know going into 23/24. 1. Getting […]