Events

We regularly run internal and external events about technology enhanced learning. You can read about some of these here.
I just wanted to thank you so much for the [UoL UXG] meeting today… It was such a breath of fresh air to have you facilitating in a direction that acknowledged the challenge but also focused on actual action.”
​Participant, King’s College London
BLESS Meeting
3 December 2019

Staff working in libraries across the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange and beyond came together to look at current best practice with Xerte and H5P for content creation.   Below are some useful notes and links taken at the event.
Demos of Xerte by Peter Leffek (BBK) and H5P by Ben Audsley (Queen Mary)
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Xerte
  • Developed by a team at Nottingham University it is open source software, and has been around for more than ten years.
  • You can upload SCORM package into MOODLE and if you use quiz then the results can be captured in the Gradebook
  • Does have a learning curve to become familiar with it and start to produce interactive content
  • You can create an individual account and start using it straight away, a well developed community of users, with detailed documentation and variety of learning objects with interactivity.
  • Xerte is great for accessibility, see the accessibility guide 
  • Bootstrap template is equivalent to creating a website
  • Xerte online toolkit can be embedded into Bootstrap
  • Quick Marks (category) can be used to link to other objects from the feedback
  • It is easy to update learning objects 
  • Peter Leffek’s presentation  

H5P
  • Free, open source software, the H5P Forum is very responsive
  • H5P stands for HTML5 Portable!
  • There are upto 50 content types to choose from
  • Content can be reused and uploaded elsewhere
  • H5P integrates into MOODLE Gradebook
  • MOODLE 3.8 H5P is part of the core build
  • H5p.org - can create an individual account and has good examples and detailed documentation 
  • Learning curve is almost non-existent in learning to use this tool
  • In MOODLE you would select activity type (H5P) and then select content type (50 to choose from)
  • Note from Ben: “As I mentioned, I also have a course on H5P and Moodle on Udemy.com which shows learners how to create and use every content type in H5P - This link to the Udemy course will allow anyone to enrol in this course.
  • Ben Audsley’s presentation

The BLESS group discussed the demos and what these could be used for, the following points were made.
  • Interactive information literacy teaching for face-to-face session and independent learning
  • Research data management
  • Other content that needs to be taught but considered ‘dry’ e.g. academic integrity, citation methodology, etc.
  • There was a query as to whether H5P can be embedded into LibGuide and the answer is yes you can.

Next session:  Spring Term 2020

Pop up session 
Julian Bream is considering arranging an event to bring together learning technologists and librarians to reshape the conversation around learning technology. We agreed that this would be of interest.  Julian will keep us informed as this develops.

Useful Links
Accessibility Regulations and Institutional Websites
4th July 2019

This term's meeting of the BLE/UoL User Experience Group focused on the the impact of the new accessibility regulations on the websites managed by our institutions. Huge thanks to our speakers and all who participated. Please find below the recording of the meeting, the slides that were presented, and links to some useful materials that were referred to during the meeting (thanks again for those who have contributed to the list!).

Meeting recording (2 hours)
Presentation slides
Setting the scene: Fiona Strawbridge, UCL (Accessibility Regs overview)
Kings Online Accessibility Compliance: Danielle Johnstone, KCL

Useful links referred to during the session: ·         Mathematic resources:  
Online course from UCL
  • UCL has a 2 hour hands-on course covering Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF creation (in Word and PowerPoint).
  • The materials are available on the ISD Digital Skills Development Moodle course https://moodle-1819.ucl.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=10049 
  • You can get guest access using the code dsdguest if you don’t have UCL credentials.
  • The materials are all in the ‘Creating accessible documents’ topic.
  • They’ve created a quick guide with a checklist of things to do and a resources sheet and there are some files for people to play around with. 
    Anything with the word BEFORE in the title has accessibility issues that have deliberately been added for people to fix.
  • Contact Caroline directly if you have any queries: caroline.norris@ucl.ac.uk
 
Free events coming up – both on 18th July:
Twitter feed from the meeting: