When putting together new resources whether in Word, PowerPoint or any of Microsoft’s suite of apps you need to think about the colours you use, be it the background or text colour or even the colour and contrast of shapes, charts and images, especially when they include text. When picking …
Introduction To celebrate the 10th Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the 20th of May, the Digital Learning Team will be providing two weeks of bite-sized blogs dedicated to digital accessibility. The team will be sharing guides, top tips, and links to additional training every day to help you to ensure …
As of 23 September 2018 new legislation states our websites or mobile apps must be more accessible by making them ‘perceivable, operable, understandable and robust’. The new legislation builds on the colleges existing obligations to people who have a disability under the Equality Act 2010. Making a website or mobile …
Each section in LearnZone has four buttons under the section title. The lightbulb icon can be toggled on/off by clicking the left mouse button on the icon. This will identify the specific section as the current topic. Highlighting a current topic will mean that section is shown first when entering …
The Class Notebook is a Microsoft OneNote document embedded within a Microsoft team site. It is like having a traditional paper-based notebook or exercise book online but with the benefits of being able to include media-rich content and feedback alongside live online collaboration. When a Class Notebook is created, all of …
In this Top Tips video, we take a look at how you can add a Microsoft Forms Polls quick launch tab to your meetings toolbar for easy access to creating polls directly in your Teams meeting but also setting up Polls before the meeting so you can launch them when …
About the Blended Learning Consortium (BLC) The Blended Learning Consortium provides a raft of interactive materials across a wide range of subject areas. The materials that have been developed are aligned to the levels of the course, and the needs of the subject. Using the BLC plugin will allow you …
This page has been set up to support the Ofsted inspection and provides instructions for: Lesson observations Collecting assessment evidence Ofsted lesson observation instructions Add an Ofsted user account to teams for lesson observations Open Microsoft Teams. Navigate to the relevant Teams site. Select the ellipses next to the site …
We live in a rapidly evolving society and economy, where change is being driven largely by technology. Standing still isn’t an option. As educators we need to adapt to and embrace new ways of teaching using technology, if we’re to prepare our learners to be successful in life and work …
Feedback Firstly the Digital Learning team would like to thank you all for attending the launch and for all of the positive feedback you provided. We have grouped them under the headings of Software, Hardware, and General Feedback to make finding and answering your questions easier. Software We had a …
