When developing your Moodle module, accessibility regulations state that the structure of your module and the design of your content must be accessible. Maximise your content and ensure that it is accessible to the greatest number of users. Review our guidance below on creating an accessible module.
City Course Format is applied by default to all modules. You can choose to activate the Grid Format as long as all modules within a Programme agree to adopt this course format. You cannot have different formats for different modules within a Programme as this will impact on module consistency and make it more challenging for students to find content.
Before applying the Grid format, review the information on limitations with this format.
Modules using the Grid Format are displayed in three columns.
From 16th July 2024, new modules using the Grid format only will have the Module dashboard block automatically added to the block drawer. The Module dashboard block will replace the Activities block.
This block is not required in modules using City Course Format as the Activities and Quick links are displayed via the Module dashboard.
The Module dashboard block lists the different activities and resources available in your course (Forums, Quizzes, Assignments, Lecture Capture, etc) and provides links to the index page for each activity or resource. The activities list will grow as you add activities to your module.
It also contains Quick links to Timetable, Reading Lists and Library Guides.
Please note: Modules using Grid format for the academic year 2023-24 will retain the activities block and will not have the Module dashboard block added.
Module content is delivered in the form of resources and activities that you create to help students meet the outcomes of your module.
The Activity Chooser is structured in tabs to help you quickly find the relevant activity/resource to add to your modules.
Common file types that are uploaded to Moodle modules will automatically be assessed by Ally and receive an accessibility score viewable only to enrolled lecturers on the module. These accessibility scores are created by checking the resource against each of the requirements of UK legislation for web accessibility relevant to higher education and then also given a weight based on how much of an accessibility challenge an issue may pose to education.
The accessibility score assesses the way content is conveyed to students, not the quality of the content itself. For example, a low accessibility score for a resource may be because it is a scanned PDF of a photocopied book, not because the book itself or content therein is of pedagogical low quality.
These accessibility scores include:
All staff can use a Moodle PlaySpace to explore different Moodle structures, features and to test different activities. Most staff have these and they are already available.
• Log into Moodle and check if you have a PlaySpace by searching for your name in My Modules.
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• Request a PlaySpace using the Non-SITS Moodle module request form and choose PlaySpace as the Enrolment type in the form.
This screencast provides an overview of how to navigate and edit a module page which is using the Grid format.