Our updated Moodle Baseline Guidance can show you how to standardise your content.
Our baseline guidance provides clear direction on how you can standardise your Moodle shell design. This allows consistent design and enhanced interaction within our interaction within our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It outlines 7 key areas:
- Navigation and Course Orientation
- Introduction
- Communication and Interaction
- Learning Resources and Activities
- Assessment and Feedback
- Accessibility and Copyright
- Implementation Tips before releasing
Each section includes Essential and Recommended practices for you to follow. This helps in ensuring all your content is well-organised and has a standardised approach to it. Let your students engage better with your content by providing a predictable and intuitive experience. To help support you with our baseline guidance, be sure to use our Moodle baseline checklist.
Find the updated Moodle Baseline guidance and checklist here
Please note that this year we expect all colleagues to follow our guidance when configuring assessment activities in Moodle and to adhere to our naming convention. This will ensure greater data consistency for learning analytics purposes. Please find further details here.
Using the Accessibility Checker on Moodle helps make your content accessible
You can use the Accessibility Checker to help you review your own Moodle content to make it accessible for your students. This tool scans your content and produces a report that scores how accessible your content is. This helps identify areas to change and can be a great way of raising your awareness of what accessible content design is. To use this, you need to be a course instructor or course leader to see this report in Moodle. Click "Reports" in the menu bar, then select "Accessibility Report."
Learn more on how you can use the Moodle Baseline and create accessible content through our workshops
Our Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Team run regular CPD sessions for all staff through the academic year. We facilitate workshops on using the Moodle, creating accessible and interactive Moodle site.
Join our Learning and Teaching Resource Centre (LTRC) Moodle site
Join our new asynchronous platform, the Learning and Teaching Resource Centre (LTRC) Moodle site.
It will provide you with a range of resources to support and enhance your teaching practices. There's a variety of tools, guides, and materials tailored to help you create engaging and effective learning experiences for your students. It features related tutorials and training materials, including videos, PDF documents and more for you to access at your own pace.
