Digital Accessibility Workshops Running Throughout September 2023
September 8, 2023
Throughout September colleagues in Learning Technologies will be running a series of training workshops on digital accessibility. These workshops will be led by the Learning Technology Consultants for each of the five faculties at the University, leading up to the start of term. These training sessions align with the launch of the Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit …
Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit
September 4, 2023
Guest author: Dr Christopher Ward (Digital Accessibility Consultant) What is the Brickfield Accessibility toolkit? A new tool for accessibility is now available to editing teachers in Moodle at the University of Nottingham. The Brickfields Accessibility+ Toolkit is an extensive accessibility checker that will help recognise and fix issues with accessibility in Moodle. It only operates …
The Digital Accessibility Conference: Sessions Review Part 3
August 4, 2023
On the 29th of June 2023, Learning Technology hosted a Digital Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham. In this series of blog posts, we are reflecting on the conference and sharing reviews written by members of the team who chaired panels during the 2023 conference. In this final post in the series, Sally Hanford …
The Digital Accessibility Conference: Sessions Review Part 2
August 3, 2023
On the 29th of June 2023, Learning Technology hosted a Digital Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham. In this series of blog posts, we are reflecting on the conference and sharing reviews written by members of the team who chaired panels during the 2023 conference. In this post, Ben Atkinson reflects on the short …
The Digital Accessibility Conference: Sessions Review Part 1
August 2, 2023
On the 29th of June 2023, Learning Technology hosted a Digital Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham. In this series of blog posts, we are reflecting on the conference and sharing reviews written by members of the team who chaired panels during the 2023 conference. In this post, Dave Corbett reflects on the lightening …
The Digital Accessibility Conference: An Overview
August 1, 2023
On the 29th of June 2023, Learning Technology hosted a Digital Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham. It was in person and free thanks to libraries and the Teaching and Learning Committee, who supported the conference financially and were key backers in putting the event on. Throughout the rest of this week, we will …
How do we implement Digital Accessibility?
June 27, 2023
One of our keynote speakers at the Digital Accessibility conference on 29th June is Alistair McNaught. Alistair has been supporting HE and FE (and other) organisations on improving accessibility for many years. He was a keynote speaker at the University’s Teaching and Learning Conference in 2022 where he spoke about the habits of highly accessible …
Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham
June 9, 2023
This week we asked Dr Christopher Ward, Digital Accessibility Consultant at the University of Nottingham, to provide an overview of the upcoming accessibility conference. Learning Technology at the University of Nottingham has organised a conference centred around the broad topic of digital accessibility, which will take place on Thursday, June 29th, 2023. This conference aims …
Three achievable ways to make your teaching more inclusive
June 6, 2023
When developing learning in higher education institutions, we always try to make it relevant and effective, to ensure that all students have equal access to the learning. Inclusive teaching practices are crucial for making sure that every student feels valued and supported in their educational journey. In this blog post, we will discuss three ways …
Moodle is Upgrading in the Summer of 2023: Moodle 4.1 is coming!
April 24, 2023
This summer Moodle will upgrade to version 4.1. This new version of Moodle brings with it lots of changes to the layout of Dashboard and My modules pages when you first login, and to your module site pages. The biggest changes in this upgrade relate to the look and feel of Moodle, such as the …
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