Digital Design QA checklist: Blackboard modules
Proof reading
- Text is free of errors, including typos, punctuation and grammatical errors, ambiguities and duplications
- Modules are displaying and functioning correctly – check in student view to identify glitches
- Bb styler used to create headings, paras, activities etc.
Headings
- Headings levels are in logical order
- Sentence case used for all headings below unit and module title level
- Numbered headings (if used) are in correct sequence
Paragraphs
- Minimal bold and itals used for emphasis
- No underlined or coloured text
- Block quote style used as required and source formatting is consistent
Links
- Working
- Consistently formatted in all modules
- Linked text is descriptive so the link destination makes sense out of context
Tables
- Consistent styling for all tables
- Minimal punctuation: sentence case; no dashes at start of sentence; no fullstops
- Table width: adjust columns and overall table width for neat appearance, readability and to reduce scrolling
- Table caption included; table number (if included) is in sequence
Lists
- Lists with lead-in sentence, lower case with fullstop at end of last row
- No semi-colons or commas at end of rows unless writer has consistently used this
- Stand-alone list is sentence case
H5P activities
- Solutions provided for all H5Ps questions
- Non-randomised answers (e.g. “all of the above’) displaying correctly
Images
- Image display is clear and images are correctly sized
- There is sufficient colour contrast between text and background colour
- Colour alone is not used to convey important information
- Alternative text descriptions are provided for images that contain important information
- Captions used for all non-decorative images
- Sources included with consistent styling
- Caption numbers (if used) are in correct sequence
- Captions are in sentence case
Reference list
- Consistent referencing style applied; follow writer’s chosen style
- Book and journal titles are in itals
- Reference list styling is consistent in all modules