Proposal: deliver all user created web pages in ‘standards mode’

In our Easter upgrade, we propose to change the default behaviour of WebLearn and deliver all HTML pages which have been authored within WebLearn and are stored in Resources in ‘standards mode’ rather than ‘quirks mode’ as they currently are. … Continue reading

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Seminar: Apereo Open Academic Environment – April 3 at 12.30 in ISIS Room, IT Services, Banbury Rd

We are pleased to announce a special seminar about the Apereo Open Academic Environment (OAE) presented by our friends from CARET (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies) at Cambridge University. The talk will take place in ISIS room, IT … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 11 March 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to restart the WebLearn AFS servers on Tuesday 11 March 2014 7-9am. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no WebLearn service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 18 February 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox9.2 on Tuesday 18 February 2014 7-9am. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn and TurnItIn report Oct 2013 -Jan 2014

Turnitin iParadigms suffered a couple of outages of their TurnItIn Academic service during December which provoked outcry amongst  the UK user community. iParadigms have been very apologetic and have promised not to let this happen again; the Turnitin CEO will … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 28 January 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade IT Services’ AFS servers on Tuesday 28 January 2014 7-9am. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no WebLearn service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn and TurnItIn Courses in Hilary Term 2014

WebLearn and Plagiarism Awareness Courses      Hilary Term 2014 A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be … Continue reading

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How to display Researcher Training on your website

As part of the JISC-funded OXCAP project, IT Services developed a portable JavaScript ‘widget’ that can be placed on any website and be made to display upcoming publicly visible Researcher Training opportunities – the list of courses can be filtered … Continue reading

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