Category: Training, support & events
Reports from our training and events, both UWP-run and external; updates on new training we’re developing, and why.
On 30 October, I was delighted to attend Scottish Web Folk at the University of Dundee. This was the second time I’d attended this particular conference – you can read about my previous experience here: Scottish Web Folk 2024: A portal practitioner’s perspective Generative AI was a major theme from both suppliers and institutions There […]
In our October session of Content Improvement Club, we divided up into breakout rooms and worked on the same page of content. Then we came back together and compared the edits we had made. This session helped us to learn about what different editors look for when working on a piece of content.
In late September, I had the joy to align my first visit to Manchester with attending the HE Connect conference. Even though the city was quite new to me, and I was quite excited to take a few walks to make the most of my free afternoon, I was even more excited to attend, present […]
In September, I attended Access:Given, a new one-day digital accessibility conference. This post covers the four sessions and my takeaways from an insightful event.
On 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day.
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we approached manual accessibility testing and the changes we made as a result. This is part 5 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other posts in this series are: Part […]
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month was the first time we ran the session at Edinburgh Futures Institute, which had a great classroom space and was centrally located for people to get to. We looked at how to improve the usability of long pages to help users complete their […]
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.
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.
Carrying out usability testing early on in the design process provided useful insights about how learners would interact with our content. The feedback we received led to us making various changes to improve the user experience of the course.
