WebLearn User Group talks- Technology-enhanced learning and teaching
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- Turnitin at Oxford
- New Turnitin Guides site
- Free Turnitin workshops 2024
- NewsGuard: check the veracity of online news services
- Resources to assist Turnitin instructors
- Turnitin free webinars
- Take a look at the Oxford Turnitin FAQs
- How can Turnitin be used to investigate the academic integrity of a piece of student writing?
- 2019 Turnitin User Summit
- Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 13 July 16:00-00:00
- Message from Turnitin about the recent takeover
- Sakai in UK HE
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- LTG Case Studies
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- OxTALENT
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The new Site Stats tool
From Nuno Fernandez: I am very pleased to announce the 2.0 release of SiteStats for Sakai! SiteStats allows authorized users to view site usage statistics related to user visits, tool activity and resource activity. SiteStats 2.0 is major rewrite of … Continue reading
Major WebLearn upgrade
WebLearn was upgraded on 3rd November 2009 to version 2.6-ox1. This was a major release and incorporates the new version of Sakai 2.6 (the software upon which WebLearn is based). New Facilities – The Highlights Upgrade to Sakai 2.6 (see … Continue reading
How do Administration Sites work?
First of all one should read these two step-by-step guides: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/adminsites1.pdf https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/hierarchy7.pdf Here is a summary of the basic points: an Administration Site is said to manage one or more (regular) sites; members of Administration Sites are the only WebLearn … Continue reading
How do I display a WebLearn calendar in my email client (Nexus)
The best way to do this is to subscribe to a WebLearn calendar (rather than import) so that new events or changes to existing events are reflected. First of all, the ”Schedule” on a site needs to be exported (click … Continue reading
All WebLearn icons now stored within the system
WebLearn uses a series of free icons known as the “Silk Icons”. All these icons are now accessible from within WebLearn from the following location. On occasions, it may be useful to display these images on a page, for example … Continue reading
Any bioscientists out there?
If anybody from the Biosciences want to do a bid in conjunction with the WebLearn team then please get in touch. Here’s the SP. Subject: UK Centre for Bioscience: Funding available The UK Centre for Bioscience is currently accepting bids … Continue reading
Search now working
After the upgrade to version 2.6-ox1 (on 3rd Nov) we discovered that the search tool was no longer finding the majority of documents. The “search index” was completely rebuilt on Friday 6th Nov which solved the problem.
New Sakaiproject.org website launched
Pieter Hartsook, Webmaster – Sakai Foundation Communications Manager says: “We hope you will enjoy the new Sakai website. The idea behind the design was a better user experience. We wanted to make the content not only more appealing to look … Continue reading
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Interesting blog post: how VLEs impact teaching – Lisa M Lane
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. … Continue reading
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