WebLearn User Group meeting 20 March 2pm

WebLearn User Group: Booking is required Wednesday 20 March, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, followed by cream tea Come and meet with fellow WebLearn users and members of the WebLearn team to give feedback and share ideas and practices. Ensure that … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 5th March from 5am

We need to make some crucial changes to the WebLearn database on Tuesday 5 March 2013 starting at 5am, we think that the service will be back by 9am. There will be no service during this period. Many apologies for … Continue reading

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SES / OXCAP: When is a course ‘upcoming’?

As part of the OXCAP project we have had to devise an algorithm to decide when a course should be shown as ‘upcoming’ and when it should be marked as ‘previous’ in WebLearn’s SES tool. I thought it may be … Continue reading

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Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWISA) Now Open for Entries

Call for Entries: 2013 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) The Sakai Teaching and Learning community is seeking submissions for the annual Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) competition. The award recognizes innovation and excellence in technology-supported teaching, academic collaboration, … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on 12 February 2013 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox4.2 on Tuesday 12 February 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. Sorry for the short notice. This bugfix release will address problems with the SES tool.

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Turnitin and the avoidance of plagiarism

IT Services supports the use of Turnitin, the plagiarism awareness software, and provides training and help materials for academic and administrative staff. Turnitin User Group meetings take place each term, with the next on Tuesday 12 March, 2:00 – 4:00. … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin: Apr 2012 – Oct 2012

I forgot to post this last October, better late than never! The headline news is that Old WebLearn (aka Bodington) is no more: it was decommissioned on 18th September and its demise seems to have cause very little impact indeed. … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Oct 2012 – Jan 2013

Old WebLearn (aka Bodington) really is no more now: it was decommissioned on 18th September and finally turned off during the week of 14 January 2013. There were over 17,000 separate logins to (new) WebLearn on the first day of … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on 22 January 2013 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox4.1 on Tuesday 22 January 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. Sorry for the short notice. This bug fix release will address problems with the SES tool.

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Research into Effective Site Templates

The following paper written by Jill Fresen, Fawei Geng and erstwhile WebLearn team Academic Visitor Robin Hill, was published in the Journal of ALT: Research in Learning Technology at the end of last year. Derivation of electronic course templates for … Continue reading

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