This short course takes you through the accessibility laws we are subject to, and how and why to implement them. It includes guides on how to create and share content that is accessible to everybody.
Accessibility in practice (about 1-2 hours).
Category: Teaching Staff
Adding engaging and interactive content to your online course materials just got easier with H5P. This new online tool allows you to create custom learning resources such as branching scenarios, accordions, interactive images and videos, 360 degree virtual tours, simple formative quizzes, and so much more. No coding or software is required – all you need is a web browser!
H5P – interactive online content (about 1-2 hours).
This page hosts guidance for digital polling tools in Vevox, Zoom, and Teams.
Digital polling (about 1-2 hours).
Canvas quizzes offer a number question types, many of which can be automatically marked. This page hosts all of the guidance and opportunities for further training.
Using Canvas quizzes (up to half an hour).
Vevox is Newcastle University’s centrally-supported Audience Interaction System, and allows colleagues to conduct live polls, quizzes and surveys with students – in advance or live in a lecture or seminar. From gauging opinion to providing participants with question & answer opportunities, Vevox can be used on different devices with the only requirement to participate being a device connected to the internet.
Audience and class interaction with Vevox (about 1-2 hours).
This page includes a handy checklist to work through to make sure the Canvas course for your module is ready for the new academic year.
Getting your Canvas course ready for next year (about 1-2 hours).
Inspera is the system that we use to deliver digital exams. This page hosts all of the available training and guidance for using the system to set up exams.
Digital Exams with Inspera Assessment (up to half an hour).
Ally is a tool that helps to make digital learning content more accessible. It helps to find and fix accessibility issues within Canvas Courses, and also provides students with a means of viewing or downloading content in different formats.
Ally: Canvas Accessibility Tool (under 10 minutes).
How to schedule and create Teams meeting rooms from within Canvas Courses.
Create Teams Meetings in Canvas (up to half an hour).
How to schedule and create Zoom meeting rooms from within Canvas Courses.
Create Zoom Meetings in Canvas (up to half an hour).