Google Workspace guide | Leeds Beckett University

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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.

What is Google Workspace?

This page contains links to staff guides for Google Workspace. (Information for students is available on the Library website).

Leeds Beckett University staff and students have access to Google Workspace, a range of communication and collaboration applications. This is effectively our own ‘copy’ of Google that can be accessed securely over the internet anywhere, anytime.

Google Workspace includes a word processor (Google Docs), spreadsheet (Google Sheets) and presentation packages (Google Slides, YouTube). A useful thing here is that any material created can also be worked on with others collaboratively and shared easily with others on MyBeckett.

The following guides explain the basic Google Workspace functionality.

Use of Google Workspace in leedsbeckett.ac.uk staff and student domains remains subject to IT regulations for our staff and students.

Get started

Get basic training

Get started guide

Google Drive / Docs

Google Docs / Sheets / Slides / Forms

Google Drive

Google Meet

Get started with Google Meet

Start and join a meeting with Google Meet

Run a meeting using Google Meet

YouTube

Upload your teaching videos and recorded resources to YouTube and embed them to play within MyBeckett. To increase the video size to play longer than the default 15 minutes follow this guide on Uploading videos longer than 15 minutes.

Video settings may be changed from Private to Unlisted rather than Public, depending on Privacy and GDPR considerations, read the Privacy Settings for YouTube.

Add YouTube videos to MyBeckett

Assessment video submissions