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Useful accessibility options in Windows 10 and Office 365
We recently took part in a very useful and well-attended meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technology group that discussed the use of Microsoft Office365 in teaching. This included a review of the accessibility features built-in to Windows 10 and Office365. I’ve selected a few of these that might be useful to share more widely. […]
Enhancing our use of Blackboard – Ideas from the Bb Teaching and Learning Conference 2018
In this post I want to share some ideas from the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference I attended in Manchester last week about how we can enhance our use of Blackboard . It was a very diverse conference with 264 participants from 22 different countries. Topics ranged from the potential of using large amounts […]
Implementing Lecture Capture – What are we Learning? Monday 11 September 2017
Lecture capture is not new. We know this. We have been running pilots at various scales for several years now. However, last September, the University of Leicester took a major step in implementing lecture capture across the institution. This has been a major undertaking and demonstrates the type of cross-institutional collaboration that we need to make […]
Implementing lecture capture event 11 Sep 2017 – Staff and Student panel
The ‘Implementing lecture capture – what are we learning‘ event on Monday 11 September 2017 ended with a panel of staff and students from the University of Leicester, including representatives from Chemistry, Criminology, Medicine, IT Services, Management and Psychology. Questions were posted by delegates to the event’s Padlet. Discussions covered how students use recordings, […]
Implementing lecture capture event 11 Sep 2017 – Pedagogy, Practice and Policy discussions
As part of the ‘Implementing lecture capture – what are we learning‘ event on Monday 11 September 2017, we held discussions on the theme of Pedagogy, Practice and Policy. The Pedagogy, Practice and Policy discussions started by considering institutional policy and whether the use of lecture capture is on an opt-in or opt-out basis. […]
VoiceThread – voice discussions and assessments in Blackboard
VoiceThread is an online collaboration and sharing tool that you can use within Blackboard. It allows you to share images, documents and videos to which others can add audio, video or text comments. You can draw on the screen while you are talking to highlight what you are talking about. You could use VoiceThread […]
Learning more about digital accessibility
I recently completed a MOOC called Digital Accessibility, run by the University of Southampton through FutureLearn. I decided to do this course to broaden my understanding of how to make digital content and technology accessible. I was aware of some aspects, such as providing captions on videos and alternative text for images, but I learned […]
GradeMark rubrics – what are they and how can you use them?
What is a rubric? A rubric is a set of marking criteria that can be used to make marking easier and more consistent. You can also use a rubric to clarify what is expected from students and to give them feedback. GradeMark has rubrics that allow you to assign marks as well as qualitative rubrics […]
Turnitin and GradeMark changes
We now have a new version of Turnitin that looks quite different but mostly works in the same way. You will notice that when you look at the details of the similarity matches or mark online using GradeMark, the student work opens in the new Feedback Studio rather than the old document viewer. For more […]
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