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Beth Hammond

Adding a YouTube caption file to your video using Kaltura

July 6, 2020January 20, 2020 by Beth Hammond

If you have a self-created video resource, this post explains how to improve accessibility by associating a caption file with it using Kaltura.

Getting started with Mentimeter

November 13, 2020January 13, 2020 by Beth Hammond

UWE has adopted Mentimeter as the new polling tool for the university. Here is a quick guide to help you find your way around.

Day 11 – Spruce up your Blackboard posts

February 6, 2020December 16, 2019 by Beth Hammond

Here are two ways you can add interest to your Blackboard posts. 1. Styles are for life, not just for Word documents In our previous post on Word styles, we … Read more

Day 7 – The joy of (plain) text: fixing funny formatting

February 19, 2020December 10, 2019 by Beth Hammond

Have you ever copy-and-pasted text from Word into a different piece of software, for example a Blackboard post, and found it looked… wrong? Maybe there were unnecessary spaces in words, … Read more

Day 5 – Naughty or nice? Splitting a list into first names and surnames

February 6, 2020December 6, 2019 by Beth Hammond

Oh deer!  Santa’s elves have given him an Excel list of children to deliver presents to. But the addresses are ordered by surname, and the list of children can only … Read more

Day 2 – Christmas content-ment: why Word styles are a gift to yourself

January 30, 2020December 3, 2019 by Beth Hammond

You may have heard about using styles in MS Word to make your documents more accessible. That means defining your headings in a way that a screen reader can understand, … Read more

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