Welcome
In this issue, we scare up some nightmarish news, terrifying tips, drag the lake for resources, and share what we have been doing last summer, all to help improve your Digital Teaching, Learning, and Assessment practice. Want to share the Spooky spirit with your students? Try out this fun Halloween quiz!
Nightmarish News
AI.loucoll – New Feature
We are excited to announce a new addition to ai.loucoll. You can now ’Favourite’ your most used prompts and find them easily at the top of the homepage.
Select the heart at the bottom of the prompt tile. It will go red and when your refresh your page or visit again, your favourite prompts will now appear at the top of the list.
Auto Enrol Closed for FE LearnZone
Students can no longer auto-enrol onto FE LearnZone course pages.
If your students did not access your pages before October, you will now need to manually enrol them onto your LearnZone Pages.
Find out how in our blog post.
Terrifying Tips & Rotten Resources
Affinity with Canva
You can now get Affinity apps free with your Canva education account. This includes:
– Affinity Designer 2: For vector design and illustration
– Affinity Publisher 2: For advanced layout and publishing
– Affinity Photo 2: For professional-level photo editing
This is available for both staff and students these applications are great alternatives to some of Adobe’s best apps.
Find more information on the Canva website. Alternatively, learn how to access apps and find resources to help you get started through Affinity.
Accessible Colour Palette Generator
When designing PowerPoints and other work, give Venngage’s Accessible Colour Palette Generator a go! It’s an easy way to make sure your text can be easily read on your colourful backgrounds, keeping your designed content accessible, but still looking good!
What We Do in the Shadows
VR in Education
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been extremely busy running VR sessions for Public Services, Foundation Learning, Caring Services, and Sport students.
There has been fantastic student engagement and positive feedback for all the sessions.
Students have had the opportunity to investigate and learn about the human body in our professional Anatomy app, and practice new soft skills with Bodyswaps app that offers a host of different modules for students to complete.
YOU’RE NEXT
If you or your team are interested in how VR could be beneficial to teaching and learning, or you know of an app you want to try with your groups, don’t hesitate to get in contact. We are happy to support with set up and practice sessions.
Help and Support
The Digital Learning team wish you a safe, fun and spooky Halloween!
As always contact the Digital Learning Team for more information, guidance, and support.
Normalcy will return next month. No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.