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Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

LLI support university adjustment to remote working

14 April 2020

Since mid-March Libraries and Learning Innovation (LLI) colleagues have responded to 3,500 enquiries from students and staff, fast tracked new support, and maintained existing systems and services as they supported the adjustment to studying and accessing information remotely.

LLI initially saw a 39% increase in queries from students and staff compared to last year as these groups settled into remote teaching and studying.

Advice was provided on video assessment, creation of online tests, accessing Remote App and electronic resources. The majority of queries are now being received via email but phone and chat support is still available 08:30 - 00:00 every day.

Academic Librarians and Skills Tutors have delivered their in-curriculum teaching online and received positive student feedback. The research students’ café held in conjunction with the Graduate School also became a virtual event with the dozen students attending asking for more opportunities to get together.

Appointments have moved online with one delivered via Instagram and the existing Skills for Learning online drop-ins have been extended to every Tuesday at 14:30 bookable via MyHub.

The Digital Learning Service collaborated with colleagues from CLT, IT Services and Distance Learning Unit to support staff with moving teaching online, creating an Academic Continuity guide alongside a new guide to help staff choose an online meeting tool to use with students and new . The TeachLearn website continues to host a wealth of useful information for the move to online teaching.

Students with disabilities are receiving extra support in accessing technology and assistive software from off-campus and course teams are being advised on how to make their online lecture content accessible.

LLI are continuously evaluating the free resources that are being made available from academic publishers, adding more than 44 collections and thousands of individual electronic resources to the Databases A-Z list, including material directly relating to Coronavirus (COVID-19) which can be accessed by our health and nursing students.

A new eBook service was launched on 26 March to temporarily replace Beckett Books Extra with over 60 titles already requested. In addition they continue to check the existing print collections for electronic versions, locate e-versions of articles through the Copyright Licencing Agency’s Digital Content Store and ensure reading lists are kept up to date.

If you have any queries about accessing Library services during this difficult period please contact your Academic Librarian or direct your students to our Library and Student IT Advice service.

The Library website continues to provide information about all their services and has a dedicated coronavirus information page.