WebLearn likely to be unavailable on Saturday 6th September 2014

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Adam Marshall

A message from Mike Fraser (Director of Infrastructure Services): Dear colleagues, It is planned to power-down the IT Services data centre at Banbury Road on Saturday, 6 September 2014 with the loss of a significant number of IT services.  This … Continue reading →

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Peer assessment coming in WebLearn 10

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Jill Fresen

The WebLearn team is upgrading WebLearn to Sakai version 10 over the summer (2014). One of the great new features of the Assignments tool is that it allows peer review and grading (peer assessment). This screenshot shows two students who … Continue reading →

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Sakai Virtual Conference – Call for presentations

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Following the earlier notification to ‘Save the date’, here are further details of the Sakai Virtual Conference which has now opened the call for papers: deadline 22 August 2014. See further details below. Note that the online event on 7 … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia editors named in US law suit

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Referring to my earlier post encouraging volunteers to write articles for Wikipedia, here is a cautionary tale about a US law suit against four Wikipedia editors by a person who claims they defamed him in an editors’ discussion forum. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/15/wikimedia-foundation-offers-assistance-to-named-defamation-editors/ … Continue reading →

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Using Wikipedia in education

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jill Fresen

This posting is a brief summary of the keynote address given by Dr Toni Sant (Wikimedia UK) at the 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 17 to 18 June 2014. Who has used Wikipedia? Who has … Continue reading →

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Save the date: Sakai virtual conference 7 Nov 2014

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Jill Fresen

The international Sakai community includes a very active teaching and learning group which has a mailing list and communal wiki for discussions and sharing ideas.   The community is planning a Sakai Virtual Conference 2014: “Bridging education with technology” on 7 … Continue reading →

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WebLearn upgraded to version 2.8-ox11 on 8 July 2014

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded on Tuesday 8th July 2014 to version 2.8-ox11. If you want more details then please contact the WebLearn Team. If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do so by contributing to the WebLearn User … Continue reading →

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Copyright changes – Accessibility

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Jill Fresen

JISC legal presented an online webinar on 8 July 2014, focusing on the disability exception in the light of the copyright changes that came into effect on 1 June 2014. (See more information via the links below.) In general, ‘restricted acts’ … Continue reading →

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Accessibility and colour blindness

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Adam Marshall presented a talk at the WebLearn User Group meeting on 7 July 2014 about writing accessible webpages. He showed a YouTube video which demonstrates how a screen reader reads out the content, links and navigation on a Sakai … Continue reading →

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 8th July 2014 from 7-9am

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Adam Marshall

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox11 on Tuesday 8th July 2014 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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