University Skills Group online skills courses now hosted in WebLearn

The WebLearn team has been working closely with the University Skills Group (USG – formerly the Graduate Skills Advisory Group) to move the former ‘Online courses’ (now called ‘Career Development Skills’) into new WebLearn. The courses were previously hosted within … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group – 29 Sep 2010, 2-4 in OUCS

You are invited to join us at OUCS for our next meeting to hear about the latest updates to the system and share ideas about WebLearn practice: NEXT MEETING of the WebLearn User Group: Michaelmas Term 2010 Wednesday 29 September … Continue reading

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Video tutorial guides for site managers

The WebLearn team employed a student intern over the summer to produce video screencast tutorials demonstrating the use of some of the most important tools in WebLearn. The 18 videos are now available on the WebLearn Guidance site listed as … Continue reading

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TurnItIn2 – overview of changes

This is from the TurnItIn newsletter and refers to the submit.ac.uk service. Turnitin now has a new interface and a number of new features. For many it has been a welcome change, and for others there may be a learning … Continue reading

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Call for Judges — Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award

The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee is seeking distinguished individuals to serve as judges for the fourth annual competition for this international award. We are looking for judges who have a passion for teaching, and whose life-long work … Continue reading

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A video explaining the Sir Louie project

This video of me at JISC’s Flexible Service Delivery seminar in Nottingham on 9th September will probably become a cult internet hit one day. In the meantime it should help to clarify what we are planning to do within the … Continue reading

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A much better way of migrating content from Old WebLearn

We have recently introduced a much improved method of moving content out of Old WebLearn and in to New WebLearn. This method employs IMS Content Packages (IMS CP) as a transport medium. This has the advantage of preserving HTML descriptions … Continue reading

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WebLearn has been upgraded

Two new versions of WebLearn have recently been released: 2.6-ox4.1 on Tuesday August 17th 2010 and 2.6-ox5.0 on Tuesday September 7th 2010 Improvements Introduction of an option to send an email to the student when quiz is complete (Tests tool) … Continue reading

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