Moodle accessibility quick guide
More guidance
This quick guide is designed to help avoid common accessibility issues on Moodle. For more detailed guidance:
- Search for accessibility in the search bar on the right-hand side of this page
- Navigate using the table of contents on the right-hand side side of this page
- View all Moodle accessibility guides
For guidance on authoring content in a range of formats, visit the Accessibility Guidance for Authors page which includes:
- General Guidance
- Microsoft Office
- Web Pages
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Video and Audio
Structuring a Moodle Space
Do
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- Use a logical structure
- Use an optimised course format
- Use sections to organise content
- Use unique and informative names
- Use section summaries to describe content
- Be consistent.
Avoid
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- A random structure
- Using an inaccessible course format
- Adding content in to one section
- Indistinct or uninformative names
- Solely using section names to describe the content within.
Creating Accessible Content
Do
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- Add alternative text to images, graphics, charts etc. where appropriate.
- Use meaningful link text
- Use colours with sufficient contrast between the text and background colours
- Use easy to read font in a large size (18pts +)
- Use heading and paragraph styles to structure text
- Use clear and concise language
- Use in-built accessibility tools.
Avoid
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- Using colour as the only means of conveying information
- Using small font sizes (<18pts)
- Placing text over images
- Using background colours without sufficient contrast to the text
- Hard to read fonts
- Using images, with content your audience need to understand, without a text alternative
- Using images of text
- Long paragraphs of text with no headings
- Link text with no descriptive information
- Using images of text
- Acronyms and complex words.
Accessible Audio and Video
Do
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- Provide a text alternative such as
- closed captions
- text transcripts
- audio description
- Clearly label audio/video content that has been provided as an alternative to text.
- Provide a text alternative such as
Avoid
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- Providing content solely in video and audio formats.
- Providing content solely in video and audio formats.
The information on this page relates to Moodle and was last updated September 2020.
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Check participants
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Switch to another role
- Create groups
- Create groupings
- Using group mode with activities
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle
- Introduction to Vevox
- Get help with Vevox
- Converting from Turning Point to Vevox
- Polling in PowerPoint using the Vevox add-in
- Polling and Q&A all running within the Vevox dashboard
- Polling in PowerPoint, plus Q&A
- Request a Vevox account
- Information about Vevox for students
- Use Teams with Vevox personal response system