Online learning is an effective way of supporting students when attendance is disrupted. However, where online learning is implemented without knowledge or awareness of digital accessibility, it can create unintended barriers. Basic accessibility practices are vital to ensuring all students benefit from online materials.

How can you make virtual classrooms work in practice? This webinar explores how tools that are commonly available in webinar software can be used to create different pedagogical approaches for online delivery.

This webinar shows how you can take a class presentation (PPT) and quickly adapt it for online use, including audio, video and the use of notes to help learners access all the extra information normally given in class. It also explores how to combine tools (Nearpod with Skype/Zoom or Teams) to make structured but interactive online sessions using a presentation as a starting point.

How do we support learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar looks at tools that build a route through learning content and provide offline support to learners. The session uses Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning and looks at the use of tracking, conditional statements, glossaries and forum.

How do we motivate and engage learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that can be used within a VLE help to motive and engage learners by adding collaborative activities and gamification. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of forums, wikis, quiz and badges.

According to the National Literacy Trust, 16.4 per cent of adults in England, or 7.1 million people, can be described as having ‘very poor literacy skills’. There are multiple causes for literacy difficulties, but whatever the cause, students working in isolation via online learning are more vulnerable to discouragement and failure. However, technology offers many ways of supporting learners with their online reading skills. This session will explore these opportunities.

As more courses move online and tutors deliver more content through webinar style sessions, it becomes vital to understand both the benefits and the barriers of webinar-based lessons. The tools and platforms you have available may put constraints on how inclusive your webinar can be, but this session will explore some of the common issues and suggest ways to minimise their impact.

The ETF's Enhance Digital Teaching Platform has many bite-sized modules, created to support teachers in everyday practice, which contain insight, information, advice and support for teaching and remote learning. The recently published Guide (see top of page) picks out the modules of most value for pedagogical practice in remote learning. This webinar by the Guide's authors shows you what they are, where they might fit into your teaching, learning and assessment and how to use them to best effect.

According to the National Literacy Trust, 16.4% of adults in England, or 7.1 million people, can be described as having 'very poor literacy skills.' At a time when our learners are working remotely, we will explore how technology can support them with writing skills as they try to complete coursework and assignments. 

With online teaching and learning being a new environment for many teachers, it is important to begin to understand how effectively your practice is developing. In this session we explore how collaborative critical reflection with colleagues can help you identify successes and challenges, reflect on them and develop strategies for improvement.

With online teaching and learning being a new environment for many teachers, it is important to begin to understand how effectively your practice is developing. In this session we explore how collaborative critical reflection with colleagues can help you identify successes and challenges, reflect on them and develop strategies for improvement.

An unexpected consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the realisation of the many benefits of a skilful use of technology to enrich online learning. Additionally, teachers have had a unique opportunity to spend time collaborating and reflecting with colleagues, sharing practice and developing new skills to meet these new challenges. This webinar builds on the recent 'Enhance your powers of critical reflection' session and explores some practical strategies that will enable teachers to prioritise this collaborative way of working as FE institutions re-open in September 2020.

The most powerful educational technology you will ever use with your students does not belong to your organisation. It belongs to the students. Your student's mobile phone can support learning in a wide range of ways from personal organisation to research and referencing, reading more efficiently, writing more productively, mastery learning, collaborative learning and alternative assignments.

From 23 September 2020, FE and Training providers have a legal duty to make sure websites (including virtual learning environments and the resources on them) meet new accessibility requirements. It' not too late to get prepared - and you are legally (and reputationally) vulnerable if you're not prepared. This webinar will take you through the four step process to help your organisation to meet the needs of all its learners, including those with accessibility needs.

This webinar reviews a range of approaches and tools to support teachers and managers to plan engaging effective online teaching and learning. The session recognises the many unknowns professionals in the sector have dealt with in planning for the new academic year but also the opportunities that this affords us all for more effective teaching and learning through hybrid models.

As learners continue to study remotely and are likely to be taught using a blended delivery mode in the future, this webinar explores how to select tools that will work for learners using their own device. The webinar considers useful steps you can take to ensure the tools you use are accessible for learners and support your needs too.

We learn as much from our peers as we do from a training session. This webinar explores how you can maximise your learning by working with your peers and how you can support the fostering of practitioner networks, through the development of practitioner-led approaches.

Delivering teaching, learning and assessment which meets the needs of all your learners is a challenge and technology makes it easier if you know how to use it appropriately. Digital resources are generally more accessible than traditional handouts, and you can significantly improve their accessibility by making small and simple changes. By taking time to reflect on student needs, you can produce a mind shift in your delivery approach that benefits all learners.

Remote delivery can be hard - when students don't seem to want to engage. Some learners may be reluctant to turn on their webcam or speak using their mic. Others with specific needs may feel anxious about typing responses in the chat pane. In this webinar we'll explore how you can feel confident learners are engaged, and how in the process you look after your own mental health.

This is the first webinar in the Connected and Effective series. It examines the contribution of current pedagogical thinking to the design and delivery of effective remote learning. A scenario-based approach is taken to explore practical ways in which an understanding of instructional theory, cognitive theory and metacognition can improve the use and impact of EdTech and ancillary activities in remote learning.

Finding enough time to manage what seems like an ever increasing workload is a challenge for most teachers and trainers. When time is tight, how do you ensure that you can still differentiate your activities when teaching remotely? Explore the opportunities that digital technologies offer to assist.

This Connected and Effective webinar looks at the essential steps teachers can take to prepare for extended periods of remote delivery. This scenario-based approach explores practical ways to prepare yourself and your learners for success when moving teaching, learning and assessment from the classroom to remote learning. It touches on issues such as digital skills, session design, collaboration, confidence, wellbeing and workload.

This webinar, part of our EdTech Manager Webinar Spring 2021 series, has been designed to help organisations create a culture of critical reflection to improve digital practices of both individuals and organisations.

Digital accessibility is a legal obligation and failure to meet the 'accessibility requirement' is regarded as a failure to make a reasonable adjustment. This webinar has been designed to help organisations to benchmark their current accessibility. Using the Accessibility Maturity Model for Education we illustrate how accessibility impacts on all areas of organisation from practice to policy and process. We explore the use of EdTech to engage and improve outcomes for learners, as well as give you the confidence to start creating roadmaps to help you comply with accessibility legislation.

This Connected and Effective webinar examines ways of using EdTech to monitor and maintain engagement with learning and ensure positive progress. It applies the insights of current pedagogical thinking and recent sector experience, blending theory and practice in a scenario-based approach to explore the challenges and opportunities for engaging learners during extended periods of remote learning and creating and sustaining momentum.

This webinar, part of our EdTech Manager Webinar Spring 2021 series has been designed to help managers to support the digital wellbeing of themselves and their staff.

This webinar, part of our EdTech Manager Webinar Spring 2021 series has been designed to help managers develop their digital savviness that in turn can help inform the digital strategies they follow within their curriculum areas or organisations. Being able to make good judgements on the EdTech tools your organisation uses, helps to prevent challenges and makes it easier to plan training and peer sharing opportunities.

Whatever your current level of digital skills and use of digital pedagogies it's time to move to the next level. Remote and blended learning are likely to remain part of our practice in the future. This webinar explores how you can extend your skills, what resources there are to support you, what CPD frameworks are available and how you can evidence your learning.

This Connected and Effective webinar explores practical definitions of the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the context of remote learning. A scenario-based approach explores practical definitions of the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the context of remote learning. It examines the challenges and possibilities for getting the best out of EdTech to deliver great learning experiences and outcomes, and how to be sure you've achieved your goals.

What are the legal requirements and how do you translate them into achievable classroom practices? What are the risks to organisations of non-compliance and what long-term strategies can mitigate these risks? What are the "shades of compliance" that you might be able to justify and how do you assess compliance, especially in relation to course content?

How to check the resources you make. Key accessibility practices that enable learners to navigate through resources more efficiently and read the more comfortably. What are the accessibility requirements with headings? Hyperlinks? Lists and tables? How do you test them? How do you remediate them? How can fonts, colours and layout make reading more comfortable? How does the format you provide influence the learner experience?

What are the accessibility requirements that make content easier to understand or more meaningful to people with sensory disabilities? How to check for reading level. How to check content works with text to speech and reads in a logical order. Practical (and achievable) advice on dealing with images, audio, video and tables so they make more sense to more learners.

What assistive technologies are already free and built into your existing tools? How can you promote these more effectively to learners? What do you gain by paying more for commercial versions of text to speech, voice recognition or mind mapping? An introduction to free screen readers and how you can use them to support accessibility audits.

How to test your website, VLE and other key platforms to check their accessibility for keyboard-only users, including basic screenreader testing. Identify common compliance failures on websites that significantly impact usability. Understand key concepts that need taken back to your developers.

How to avoid the hidden costs of inaccessible tools and systems. What are the key accessibility checks to verify supplier's accessibility claims?