The Nottingham Accessibility Practices (NAPs): Overview
February 16, 2023
The Nottingham Accessibility Practices – the NAPs – are eight core habits that will help make your teaching materials and publications more accessible – but also more available to all. This is the first in a series of blog posts which cover these core habits. Accessibility is relevant whether you’re drafting an article for publication …
Monitoring student engagement via analytics: the problem with Moodle folders
January 17, 2023
Files, such as Word documents, can easily be added to Moodle as File resources. Some teachers prefer to upload a number of files into a folder instead of keeping them separate. However, there are generally more advantages to adding the files individually. You can do very much more with individual files that is not possible …
How students can change account settings in ExamSys
January 11, 2023
ExamSys is the University’s e-assessment system used for online assessment, including formal summative exams, taken under exam conditions, and informal formative self-assessment quizzes. ExamSys is used for some but not all modules. If you are a student your ExamSys account is set up with your usual University username and password. Each year, you will automatically …
Universal Design for Learning: Advent Calendar #15
December 15, 2022
Universal Design is a well-known principle in, for example, the built environment. One example is where buildings that have been designed for wheelchair access are also more accessible to older people with mobility issues, people with pushchairs or bikes, or the person who fell off their bike yesterday and temporarily injured their knee. It tends …
Three keyboard shortcuts to quickly make documents more accessible in Word. Advent Calendar #12
December 12, 2022
It’s a busy time of year when you’re supporting students towards the end of the semester as well as preparing for the Christmas or other end-of-year holiday. So save time with Word’s many keyboard shortcuts to bypass or replace clicking menu items. If you’re in full flow typing, these can be particularly helpful, and if …
Habits of Accessible People: Advent Calendar #2
December 2, 2022
In this video Alistair McNaught discusses the habits of highly accessible people, outlining a few simple things that can make a big impact on the accessibility of learning resources for students. We have distilled these tips into the Nottingham Accessible Practices – look out for the “Take a NAP” campaign in the next few months. …
Using images in teaching
October 10, 2022
We’ve been asked recently about good practice in using images in teaching. Which can you use, how do you prepare them and how do you use them? Copyright Images must all be checked for copyright. Provide your own images (take pictures) or use images that have a Creative Commons licence (include the correct attribution somewhere). The …
More accessible ways to use Turnitin Feedback Studio
May 24, 2022
Accessibility can be an issue for both students and staff using Moodle. If you are spending hours studying or marking online, then you want it to be as comfortable as possible. I’ve been asked by several staff if there’s anything the marking technologies can do to support academics marking who have vision impairment. We’ve collected …
Anonymous forums in Moodle
January 20, 2022
We are occasionally asked about how staff can set up anonymous forums in Moodle. At the time of writing there is no official anonymous forum in Moodle. Moodle is designed to be, like the lecture theatre or seminar room, a safe learning space where students feel comfortable speaking in a community of learners. There are …
Advent calendar #11: Free practical Accessibility webinars
December 11, 2021
Thinking of New Years’ Resolutions yet? One of them has to be to improve the accessibility of your students’ learning materials. Get ready to improve your accessibility knowledge in January with these free webinars. Book them now? It is now three years since the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations required colleges and universities to “meet …
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