WebLearn upgraded to 2.6-ox8

Release Notes – WebLearn – Version 2.6-ox8 – 12 July 2011 New WebLearn was upgraded on 12th July 2011 to version 2.6-ox8. For more detailed information please looked at the detailed release notes. General Improvements When sites are copied, a … Continue reading

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Book Release: “Sakai CLE Courseware Management”

The Sakai Foundation and PACKT publishers are proud to announce the Sakai CLE Courseware Management book. This is the official guide to the Sakai CLE. http://www.packtpub.com/sakai-cle-courseware-management-for-elearning-research/book This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group TT2011 presentations available

From Jill Fresen: Thanks to Fawei Geng, the recordings and presentations from the WLUG meeting of Trinity Term 2011 are now available from the Home Page in the WebLearn User Group site. Trinity Term: Thursday 7 July 2011 2:00-4:00 pm … Continue reading

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When do new students get access to WebLearn?

There has been a bit of interest in using WebLearn as a resource to help new students before their arrival in Oxford; I made a blog post about this entitled: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn. I thought it … Continue reading

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WebLearn Announcements now available via Mobile Oxford

The Mobile Oxford team have now added the Announcements tool to their WebLearn area. Clicking on the Announcements link in Mobile Oxford will collate all announcements from all sites where the user is a participant and display them in a … Continue reading

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Transferring very large files

In the past we have been asked about using WebLearn to transfer very large files to other users in a secure fashion.  We generally say that WebLearn not the most suitable vessel for this, however, there is now some good … Continue reading

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EuroSakai 2011: Focusing on European Adoption, 26-28 Sept

From Frank Benneker EuroSakai 2011 Sakai is returning to Amsterdam for 2011 edition of EuroSakai. It will be held on the same beautiful waterfront as the 2007 Sakai conference, the dates are: 26 – 28 September 2011. The main theme … Continue reading

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Learn about WebLearn reading lists

There will be a workshop entitled “Weblearn Reading lists and SOLO” which will be run by the Weblearn team on 13 July.  The new Weblearn – SOLO integration makes it much easier to create simple reading lists from SOLO, and … Continue reading

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‘History of Sakai’ book by Dr Chuck

The indomitable Dr Chuck has done it again! Sakai: Free as in Freedom, written by Charles Severance (the first Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation) is a personal view of the history of Sakai. The book is a thorough description … Continue reading

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IMS Basic LTI Outline

Thanks to Matthew Buckett for this post. Updated 26th Oct 2012 – the username is now passed via ext_sakai_provider_displayid IMS Basic LTI Basic LTI allows external tools to be integrated into an existing application such as a VLE. These application … Continue reading

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