The Legend of the Sakaiger

Ever wondered about that cuddly blue and white cat that keeps popping up? Well, wonder no more – I have just discovered that he’s got his very own web site: http://www.sakaiger.com/

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WebLearn upgraded to version 2.10-ox4

WebLearn was upgraded on 4th August 2015 to version 2.10-ox4. If you want more details then please contact the WebLearn Team. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. If you would like … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 4th August 2015 from 7-9am

We plan to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.10-ox4 on Tuesday 4th August 2015 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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Sakai Has Greater User Satisfaction Than Moodle or Canvas

I saw an interesting report into customer satisfaction of Learning Management Systems (aka VLEs) by the G2 crowd today which shows that there is a higher satisfaction amongst Sakai (WebLearn) users than amongst Moodle or Canvas users. I know the … Continue reading

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Now Open! Call for Proposals for the Sakai Virtual Conference 2015

Here’s an announcement about this year’s Sakai Virtual Conference which is to be held in the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 4th November. (Sakai is of course the software upon which WebLearn is based.)  It would be fabulous if Oxford … Continue reading

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A Tool for Choosing Projects, Modules or Options in WebLearn

This from Jon Mason, Medical Sciences: We have just been awarded funding from the IT Innovation Seed Fund for a project to develop a simple, flexible web application to enable the collation, communication and choosing of project, module, or other … Continue reading

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How is Sakai faring in the face of competition from Canvas? Quite well actually!

Dr Chuck (with a little help from yours truly) has written an excellent blog post outlining the (minimal) impact of Michigan, Stanford and Indiana’s ‘defection’ from Sakai to Canvas. It makes an interesting read.

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WebLearn Plans for the Next Few Months

We thought it might be useful to outline what tasks the WebLearn team are currently working on. The focus at the moment is on 4 projects but we are also spending time inducting two new developers and two new learning … Continue reading

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Sneak Preview of WebLearn (Sakai) 11

Members of the WebLearn team (and TWISA winner Lucy Tallents) have just returned from the annual Apereo conference held in Baltimore. Aside from the delicious crab cakes, there were numerous other benefits not least being able to help define the … Continue reading

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New version of WebLearn released (v2.10-ox3.1) on 19 May 2015

WebLearn was upgraded on 19th May 2015 to version 2.10-ox3.1. If you want more details then please contact the WebLearn Team. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. If you would like … Continue reading

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