How To’s

AI as my Copilot – Improved ALT-text

Published: May 3, 2024
a serene beach scene with clear blue skies and a few clouds. In the foreground, there are two large sea turtles on the sand. One is closer to the water’s edge, and another is further back, with distinct tracks in the sand leading from the water to the turtle further up the beach, indicating its path of movement. The ocean appears calm with gentle waves, and in the distance, there is a visible island or hill rising from the sea.

Creating accessible web-based content is important for everyone , whether we’re creating public-facing web pages or uploading instructional content. A fundamental aspect of web accessibility involves providing ALT-text for images…

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Small Bytes Workshops return for Spring!

Published: March 22, 2023
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The Small Bytes workshop series returns in the spring of 2023! We look to introduce a new instructional or research tool (or topic) on a weekly basis. These are not…

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Improving Lecture Videos

Published: February 19, 2021
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With a few quarters of remote instruction in the books and the shock of transitioning to Zoom and CCLE (hopefully) subsiding, now is a great time to look back and…

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Help Moving Humanities Instruction Online

Published: March 12, 2020

HumTech is here to help with moving Humanities finals and instruction online as a result of COVID-19, and we are coordinating with all other support teams on campus. Here is…

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Breaking the Writer’s Block

Published: January 14, 2020
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As anyone who’s ever had to write anything knows, there’s a whole host of forces seemingly conspiring against your words appearing on the page. Aside from the many sources of…

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Embed WI+RE Workshops in your Course Site

Published: September 28, 2019

Writing Instruction and Research Education, known as WI+RE, is a community at UCLA that fosters student success in their writing and research projects. UCLA’s WI+RE team has developed 7 online…

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Insufficient Storage

Published: November 6, 2018
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It’s happened to all of us. Maybe we’re downloading a vacation’s worth of photos onto our computer, or maybe our new laptop comes with half the hard drive space of…

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