A festive gift from the Learning Innovation Unit.
Day 12 – Don’t watch Panto, watch Panopto!
Top tips for how to include YouTube in your Panopto videos
Day 11 – Spruce up your Blackboard posts
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…
Day 10 – Noel need to scroll with the PebblePad search tool
The search tool in PebblePad lets you quickly and effectively find the file you need.
Day 9 – Forget gifts, it’s all about the cache
Use this keyboard shortcut to access and clear cached data.
Day 8 – Colour Contrast Checker: useful for documents, not your Christmas jumper
You may have heard about the importance of contrast when it comes to the accessibility of your learning resources. This is one of the issues that Blackboard Ally is likely…
Day 7 – The joy of (plain) text: fixing funny formatting
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,…
Day 6 – Yule love this trick for navigating open windows
View and navigate all open windows with this nifty keyboard shortcut.
Day 5 – Naughty or nice? Splitting a list into first names and surnames
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…
Day 4 – Making a list and checking it twice: the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Office
Why is this useful? When creating new documents in Microsoft Office, it will save you time in the long run if you check the accessibility of your document before uploading…
Day 3 – Snow your browsers
Do you know what a browser is and can you name the one you are using?
Day 2 – Christmas content-ment: why Word styles are a gift to yourself
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,…
Day 1 – “Twas the night before Christmas…”: ‘Read Aloud’ Word Documents
What is this? Read Aloud is one of the Learning Tools in Word, which are designed to help with reading fluency and comprehension. Why might this be useful? You might…