WebLearn Blog

Here’s a list of things that the new WebLearn does that the old WebLearn does not.

• •    Calendars for course events

• •    Electronic sign-up for tutorials, seminars or other types of meeting

• •    Electronic assignment submission with automatic plagiarism detection using JISC Turnitin service. (Offering and supporting a University-wide plagiarism detection service could also be mentioned – it is within the domain of the WebLearn team.)

• •    Announcements can be made to student groups based on course membership

• •    On-line (electronic) course experience (feedback) questionnaire will be available to all course tutors by Easter 2010

• •    Reading lists with live-link to University library systems making it easy for students to find the physical location of a specified text

• •    Each course can have its own podcast feed

• •    Collaborative authoring environment (wiki) with LaTeX mathematical notation support

• •    Vastly improved discussion forum and assessment tools (compared to old service)

• •    Real-time chat for every course

• •    Sophisticated tracking of students by tutors with visual summary of activity

• •    Custom Smartphone interface with associated long-term login will be available to every student by academic year 2010-11

•    Opinion poll for all courses (students will be able to vote via a Smartphone by 2010-11)

New WebLearn also has a better UI and is more accessible than the old system.