Job Advert – Sakai Developer

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Adam Marshall

OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES (OUCS) Title:  Senior Programmer – Sakai Developer (Java) Salary:  £36,715 -£43,840 (If no suitable applicant is forthcoming, an appointment on the scale £28,983 – £35646 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.) Note that … Continue reading →

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Converting MS Word to HTML

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Pasting text into WebLearn’s WYSIWYG HTML editor which has been copied from either Microsoft Word or Outlook is a hit and miss affair. Pasting directly (via the ‘Paste’ button) is not recommended. Pasting using the ‘Paste from Word’ button does … Continue reading →

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WebLearn courses next term

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

From Michaelmas term, we will be offering a new course ‘WebLearn: Surveys‘ which enables Oxford users to design and deliver online surveys at no charge. If you have materials in the old WebLearn system (Bodington), come and attend the course … Continue reading →

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Sakai Teaching and Learning Initiatives

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Adam Marshall

This is taken from the latest Sakai newsletter: Following work at the 2010 Sakai Conference in Denver, the Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L) group has identified priority initiatives for the upcoming year. During the year leading up to the 2011 … Continue reading →

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A message from the new Sakai Executive Director

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Adam Marshall

I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Ian Dolphin, the new Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. Many of you know me from my time on the Board of the Sakai Project, during the period of Mellon grant funding and early … Continue reading →

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Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading →

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New Version of WebLearn Released (v2.6-ox4.0)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Apologies for the delay in this announcement! New WebLearn was upgraded on 20th July 2010,  to 2.6-ox4.0 New Facilities – The Highlights Users can now become members of ‘Joinable’ sites by simply visiting the site – previously one had to … Continue reading →

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Reading lists are set to improve

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The Sir Louie Project Sir Louie – System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment. This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University’s … Continue reading →

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Possible Turnitin Outage Sept 4-5

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Just in from iParadigm There will be a special maintenance window for the Turnitin service on September 4th, 2010 in conjunction with our launch of Turnitin2. Schedule Confirmed Maintenance Start Date: Saturday, Sept. 4 at 17:00 GMT Projected Maintenance End … Continue reading →

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