StREAM now has new meeting categories to record contact with between both Personal Tutors and Apprenticeship Quality Coaches. The categories are intended to improve clarity between recording meeting organisation and meeting outcomes.
Ensuring Accessible Course Content: Blackboard Ally Accessibility Report
Blackboard Ally, is a tool designed to enhance accessibility in course content, offers a comprehensive Accessibility Report that empowers instructors to create more inclusive learning resources. Explores Ally’s main features some common issues identified, and strategies for rectifying accessibility barriers highlighted in the Accessibility Report.
Accessibility Guidelines for Learning and Teaching Resources
These step by step guides will help everyone meet the requirements of the new accessibility regulations with comprehensive advice. Guidance covers accessibility features of various tools available to us all and simple techniques we can use to ensure resources are accessible as possible.
Accessibility Help Guides
We now have a comprehensive set of accessibility guidelines to help you meet accessibility requirements. Today we introduce new guidance on creating accessible visual data. These step by step guides will help everyone meet the requirements of the new accessibility
Accessibility Help Guides: Accessible Media Part 2 – Captions
The following guides give practice advice on how to enable and edit captions with University video platforms. Captions in ReView (Panopto) Captions in Microsoft Teams Live Captions in Blackboard Collaborate Previously we shared guidance on creating accessible video and what
Accessibility Help Guides – Accessible Media Part 1
Today we are publishing the next set of accessibility help guides with overview guidance on accessible media. The guides provide advice on: Making images accessible, Making video and audio accessible, Video captions and transcripts. Later this week in part 2 we will
New Accessibility Help Guides PDF and PowerPoint
Continuing with our series of Help Guides for Accessibility, today’s Help Guides feature advice on how to ensure your PDFs and PowerPoints are accessible: How to make your PDFs accessible How to make your PowerPoints accessible In addition to today’s
Examples of Flexible Assessment in Practice
Prioritising flexible assessment arrangements in a hybrid model means shifting on to more sustainable approaches designs that are sensitive to the needs and circumstances of students, giving them more control and ownership over assessment processes. ‘Flexibility’ in assessment is about responding to students’ individual learning needs as well as needs of the curriculum. The key is making assessment relevant to the learner.
Introducing the Accessibility Help Guides
Academic Registry will be publishing a series of help guides over the next 3 weeks every Tuesday and Thursday to assist staff in developing inclusive learning resources. These step by step guides will help everyone meet the requirements of the new accessibility regulations with comprehensive advice. Guidance will cover various topics such as accessibility features of various tools available to us all and simple techniques we can use to ensure resources are accessible as possible.
10 Tips for inclusive webinars and online meetings
Providing online meetings and webinars in a way that most people can access and engage with can be challenging. The following provides some simple tips everyone can adopt to ensure the technology is best used to enhance the experience for all participants…