VE Day: through our online resources
Today, 8 May 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) when people in Britain and …Continue reading →
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Building our Effective Digital Content course in Articulate
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we built the course using our chosen platform, Articulate Rise 360, and how we found the process. This is part 4 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other […]
Read morePapers of Benjamin Leigh Smith: Journal of the Schooner Samson 1871
Today we are publishing an article by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement team, on Benjamin Leigh Smith’s voyage …Continue reading →
Read moreFree University Card Replacement
So, what do you do when your university card is lost, damaged or stolen? Well, usually you will visit our …Continue reading →
Read moreHow we chose Articulate as the platform for Effective Digital Content
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we moved on from the prototype stage and which technology options we considered. This post is written by Nick Daniels and Katie Spearman from the User Experience (UX) Service. This is part 3 of our short series […]
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It was my honour this weekend to be part of a Bat Mitzvah ceremony for the daughter of one of my oldest friends. The Bat Mitzvah girl has grown into an engaging, lively, curious and clever young woman and it was lovely to see her take this step into adulthood as she comes of age. …
Read moreHow caption editing made me fall in love with Ophthalmology (and why I now want to do the Master’s I’ve been captioning for)
A guest blog post from one of our human-captioners, Ellie Kerr. Ellie joined us back in 2023 and is one of our original captioners – when we only had a team of 2. Now we have 20 part-time captioners who work on correcting automated captions across our lecture recordings and other media. I never […]
Read moreAstronaut Dr Kathy Sullivan at the Media Studio
We’ve had the privilege of welcoming a variety of experts into the studio: from climate scientists and human rights lawyers to leading figures in AI, and everything in between. One of the perks of my job is that I get to film and edit incredibly …
Read moreDeveloping our Effective Digital Content online course
We’ve been developing a new version of Effective Digital Content. This post looks at how this work fits into our wider approach to supporting content design across the University. About the current version of Effective Digital Content If you work with websites at the University, there’s a good chance that you’ve taken our course Effective […]
Read moreContent Improvement Club: what we covered in our March session
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we looked at writing and improving alt text to make images accessible to all users. Our revamped content improvement meetups We recently launched Content Improvement Club, a series of meetups aimed at staff who work with web publishing at the University. The meetup […]
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