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Cat Prill Cat Prill

10 minute training: to accessible content; cognitive load

Over the last few blogs, i’ve spoken about some of the ways you can improve the accessibility of your content. I’ve discussed screen readers, alt text, keeping things camel case and other practical and structural ways to make your content accessible to people.

But, as we know, accessibility isn’t just about the physical challenges people face when accessing your content. It’s also important to talk about the mental and neurological implications and how we can make content accessible.

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Guest User Guest User

What can higher ed learn from AI-content generation?

One evening recently a thought popped into my head: What would happen if I gave creative control over a university brand and content project to AI-tools like ChatGPT and DALL·E 2?

Within an hour or two I had somehow become the unlikely founder of a new university:

The University of Anywhere.

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Cat Prill Cat Prill

10 minute training: how to create accessible social media

Being accessible on social media just makes sense.

Accessible content is good for everyone. When you consider ways to ensure that people can adequately access and understand your content, everyone is more likely to access and understand it. It’s simple really. This post touches on some of the core elements of accessible practice on social media.

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Dana Rock Dana Rock

4 ways to make your student email communications more effective

Heard a colleague complain that ‘students don’t read their emails?’ Email communications can easily be done badly, resulting in overwhelm and disengagement from students.

Yet research suggests that most students prefer to get information from their institution via email. Email is one of the most effective tools we have to communicate with students and drive action.

But to be effective, it has to be done strategically

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Lucy Guest Lucy Guest

Our favourite clearing campaigns

It’s official: Results Day is over!

Universities across the UK have put in hours of hard work to help students through what can be an incredibly difficult and important time of their lives.

We wanted to celebrate some of the best content from across the sector - and why it works so well.

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Lucy Guest Lucy Guest

Creating meaningful arrivals content

Last week, thousands of students found out which universities they were heading to - and the majority of the UK education sector has been focused on helping some of them find places through Clearing. Now, they’re moving on to the next big milestone: arriving at university.

At its heart though, your content needs to see this as an extension of the application process. Your students’ experience doesn’t start now. It began months ago.

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Lucy Guest Lucy Guest

Capturing student stories at graduation… our guide from A-Z

It’s 2022 and the summer graduation ceremony is back without government COVID restrictions. For higher education teams, this might be the biggest year you’ve had yet if you’re holding postponed pandemic ceremonies. Or you might be thinking about how to make this year bigger and better than anything you’ve done before.

So here’s the A to Z of creating content at graduations to show your newest alumni how amazing you know they are.

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Lucy Guest Lucy Guest

Our top 5 tips for Clearing!

Clearing is one of the busiest times of year for (almost) any UK university - and it can seem overwhelming.

So we’re here to help. Take a look at our top five tips to make the most of Clearing 2022.

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Lucy Guest Lucy Guest

Why alt text in football should be a wake-up call for education social media

In early May, Manchester United Football Club tweeted about Juan Mata García, asking its followers to read the alt text. In the functionality designed to describe imagery for assistive technology, their social media team shared a joke about how great the player is.

And, as you might expect, Twitter users were angry.

But what is alt text, why should you be using it - and why did Man Utd receive such a backlash?

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Tracy Playle Tracy Playle

Let’s chat frankly about those end of financial year projects

We’ve reached that time of year when we start to receive a flurry of project requests aligned to end of financial year spend. In this post we explore your options and offer advice on making the most of this time and those remaining pockets of budget.

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What makes good quality content?

Depending on your role, different skillsets may judge the quality of content in different ways. Our Senior Content Strategist defines eight key pillars of good quality content.

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