Tag: inclusion
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Principles of Digital Accessibility
Meeting WCAG standards generally revolves around four principles, often abbreviated to “POUR”.Content must be: Web Accessibility Initiative – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines POUR Perceivable Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive. For example, it’s important to present information that can be perceived in different ways, where a…
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What you need to do
Navigating accessibility legislation and good practice as a member of staff at the University can feel daunting, but it is ultimately about removing barriers so that all your students can engage fully with your teaching. Don’t feel scared by it, or be put off trying, inclusivity is a process reached in a lot of small…
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Social Annotation
What is social annotation? Social annotation refers to collaborative reading and annotation. It is a collaborative learning activity, and an alternative to setting students reading activities to engage with on their own. Typically, documents are shared and each member of the group annotates the document with questions, comments and other ideas. This technique can be…
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Concessions, Extensions and Alternative Assessment
What are concessions, extensions and alternative assessment methods? As an inclusive learning environment, it is important that individual student needs are met. Some students will be granted concessions such as extra time in exams, others may request a short term extension, for example they are ill, whereas others may ask for a longer term extension,…
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Presenting Learning Content
The information presented below is equally useful when producing Word documents or PowerPoint slides as well as developing Documents in Blackboard or web pages such as this. Presenting the Content Order Order materials logically this is usually the order in which learners should tackle the content. This is usually a linear route, but if there…
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Planning Learning Content
Step 1 – Understanding the Departmental Template Each department agreed a template right at the beginning of the roll-out of Blackboard which was designed to give staff a framework in which to develop learning materials to make it easy for students to follow. This does differ from department to department, but it should not matter…
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Structuring Learning Content
Learning content can be presented to learners in a number of ways, most often this will be via the virtual learning environment (VLE) such as Blackboard, but may be as a live presentation on a screen or handouts given to learners in lectures and seminars. Content may be paper-based or media based such as videos,…