The upgrade has been moved back one day to 30th May 2012
There will be a short period of downtime on Tuesday 30th May between 7am and 9am so that we can perform a major upgrade to WebLearn.
We will be moving to a service based on Sakai 2.8 which offers a number of improvements in key areas:
- Big improvements to Sign-up tool based on user feedback (categories, change organiser, auto create groups, prevent withdrawing when closed, better export (compatible with OXCORT)
- Many improvements to the Forums tool (including better user interface (UI), photos of author
- Improved webservices interface which can be exploited by Mobile Oxford
- New Profile tool with Social networking facilities
- New improved Email Sender tool (replaces Mailtool)
- Improved wiki UI
- Improved tool permissions ‘widget’
- SES tool bug fixes
- Site templates facility – it will be possible to base a new site upon a selection made from a choice of templates each tailored for a specific situation and each containing their own help and guidance.
