The document summarizes the implementation of universal learning design (ULD) components at Instituto Politécnico de Leiria in Portugal. It describes the EU4ALL plugin and course activity components developed to integrate courses with the EU4ALL metadata repository and provide personalized accessible content. It also outlines a pilot course implemented with the components, which included course materials in multiple formats to accommodate users with various disabilities.

1. Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Catarina Maximiano Claudio Esperança Manuela Francisco Rogério Costa Vítor Rodrigues ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

2. Contents About UED-IPL Components implementation Pilot course Conclusions ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

3. About UED-IPL ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011 Leiria (130km north of Lisbon)

4. About UED-IPL ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011 Campus 1 - Leiria School of Education and Social Sciences Campus 2 - Leiria School of Technology and Management School of Health Sciences Campus 5 – Leiria Distance Learning Unit Learning Unit for Technological Specialisation Courses Training Center for Actives Campus 3 - Caldas da Rainha School of Fine Arts and Design Campus 4 - Peniche School of Tourism and Maritime Technology The academic community of IPL integrates about 11,500 students, 885 teachers and 314 technical and administrative staff (in 5 higher education schools). In total, 62 undergraduate degree courses are offered (day classes, night classes and distance learning), 40 masters degree courses and 18 post-graduate courses.

5. Components implementation ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

6. Components implementation Module description EU4ALL local plugin. This is the base component of the module and contains the libraries to communicate with the EU4ALL repositories. Course activity. The adaptable plugin, a course activity used to associate the course resources, send that information to the EU4ALL metadata repository and retrieve the resource that should be presented to the user when requested. Course format. Format is a Moodle component that specifies the internal structure of a course and how the course resources should appear. Moodle capabilities are a smart way to control the permissions within a Moodle instance (allow or deny access to specific features). ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011 more information about this in http://ead.ipleiria.pt/eu4all

7. Components implementation Requirements This module was developed over a LAMP environment using Moodle 2.0.1 and should work on this environment Hardware Requirements There are no specific hardware requirements for this module in addition to those required for Moodle 2. Software Requirements A workable installation of Moodle 2 PHP soap client extension is required for the module to function properly A system account with file system write permissions to copy the module files to the destination system Network access to the EU4ALL service endpoints is also required Any standards browser: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Opera, Safari, should work too ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

8. Pilot course ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

9. Pilot course ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

10. Users Visual disabilities Hearing disabilities Physical disabilities Cognitive and neurological disabilities Without disabilities 18 students 2 teachers Course content Module 0 1 PDF (text) Video (image and audio) Audio (audio) Video with sign language (LGP) Module 1 1 PDF (text) Video (image and audio) Audio (audio) Video with sign language (LGP) Pilot course ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011

11. Conclusions What is expected from IPL and what we have done? Develop EU4ALL Components User model Metadata repository Content personalisation Implement a course (users with special needs) Elaborate accessibility and usability reports ULD conference, Brno, 10 Feb. 2011