WebLearn unavailable on *MONDAY* 13 Jan 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox9 on Monday 13 Jan 2014 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologize for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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How to display WebLearn within a Power Point slide

People often like to browse WebLearn from within a PowerPoint presentation. Generally this is done by adding a hyperlink or maybe by just breaking out of the presentation and switching to a web browser, however, it is actually really easy … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 3 December 2013 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox8.1 on Tuesday 3 December 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. This release includes bug fixes for: broken right mouse button functionality in the WYSIWYG editor problems associated … Continue reading

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Possible Missing Files?

Last week’s problems with file uploads and deletions have now been fixed, however, it would appear that a small number of files  may possibly have become corrupted as a result of the outage. Affected files will probably appear to be … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 12 November 2013 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox8 on Tuesday 12 November 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologize for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Apr 2013 – Oct 2013

WebLearn and Turnitin:  Apr 2013 – Oct 2013 The big news in this period has been the changes in behaviour of Firefox and Chrome in how they handle pages containing ‘mixed content’. Web browsers classify content as either ‘secure’ (the … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Plagiarism Awareness Courses Michaelmas Term 2013

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 downloaded for self study. Places are limited and … Continue reading

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WebLearn video

If you’ve seen the set of 6 WebLearn postcards and don’t know how to fit them together then fear not, we have made a video to show how it is done. (If the video doesn’t display then visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1_1vhcheg ) … Continue reading

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