WebLearn User Group – Hilary Term, 21 March 2012

WebLearn User Group – Hilary Term, 21 March 2012 Please book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TOVD if you plan to attend. Welcome and introductions 14:00 – 14:10 Presentations from WebLearn users 14:10 – 15:20 Damion Young and Jon Mason (Medical Sciences Learning Technologies) … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin – meetings and courses

WebLearn User Group Meeting: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 14:00-16:00 at OUCS (followed by tea and cake) At the next meeting of the WebLearn User Group users from Medical Sciences, the Said Business School and the Department of Continuing Education will … Continue reading

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OxCAP Project: All about XCRI

The OxCAP project is a JISC funded initiative which will provide an XCRI-CAP XML feed of graduate training opportunities at Oxford. When complete, this will mean that graduate students will have a ‘one-stop-shop’ (in WebLearn) of available training modules with … Continue reading

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WebLearn podcast is supremely popular!

Rev Dr James Robson ‘Supporting Tutorials: WebLearn’ is the most popular podcast on Oxford Podcasts this week and has had 60 likes on YouTube. Revd Dr James Robson is a Winner of the OxTALENT 2011 Award for ‘Best Use of … Continue reading

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WebLearn report: Oct 2011- Jan 2012

Period: Oct 2011- Jan 2012 Software New WebLearn was upgraded in Jan 2012 – it now stands at v2.6-0x10. For more detailed information please looked at the relevant blog post: https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2012/01/new-weblearn-was-upgraded-on-10th-january-2012-to-version-2-6-ox10/ We will move to Sakai 2.8 at Easter. Improvements … Continue reading

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Supporting Tutorials Using WebLearn

The tutorial system lies at the heart of Oxford’s educational experience, to further this practice LTG have produced a video case study entitled WebLearn: Supporting Tutorials. Supporting tutorial practices through the use of technology can enable both tutors and students … Continue reading

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Humanities Student Enrolment System now working

A patch was applied to WebLearn this morning (17 Jan 2012) which fixed the teething problems that Humanities students will have experienced when trying to use the Student Enrolment System over the last 7 days We apologise for any inconvenience … Continue reading

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Instability problems (hopefully) fixed

We hope that this morning’s reconfiguration and restart of WebLearn will stop the problems of instability that have dogged WebLearn over the last week. We apologise for the unscheduled breaks in service and really hope that these are a thing … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Courses Hilary Term 2012

A variety of taught courses are offered by OUCS free of charge, to support the use of WebLearn and (as from this term) the plagiarism prevention and detection software Turnitin. In most cases, the course books can also be downloaded … Continue reading

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New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10

New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10. We had intended to move to 2.8-ox1 but unfortunately have had to delay this again, this time until the Easter 2012 release. Many apologies for the delay. Improvements Surveys … Continue reading

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