Dates for courses this term

Dear WebLearn Users Here are the course dates for WebLearn courses during Michaelmas Term 2010. Note that bookings are essential and open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/ There is now a regular course on using the Survey … Continue reading

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Sakai and JASIG Foundations To Pursue Merger

Early this year, Jasig, the parent organization for uPortal, CAS, Bedework and other open source software serving higher education, and the Sakai Foundation, which supports the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment, formed Board-level groups to examine ways the two organizations … Continue reading

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Old WebLearn user importer now fixed

The problems with old WebLearn have now been fixed. New students should now be able to access their material. The problem related to the format of the data which is used as a basis for the creation of accounts for … Continue reading

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Become a member of the Sakai Foundation Board

A note from Ian Dolphin (Executive Director, Sakai Foundation). Please contact the central team if you are interested: Over the course of October and November the Sakai Foundation will be holding elections for two positions on the Foundation Board. In … Continue reading

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Survey tool now available

The WebLearn Survey tool (released as a Beta) can be used to design and manage electronic questionnaires to be delivered on-line. Surveys can be created to gather data for research purposes, general data gathering, or for course, lecturer or tutor … Continue reading

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SunGuard become Sakai partners

“Malvern, Pa., September 28, 2010 — SunGard Higher Education and rSmart today announced a partnership regarding the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE), an enterprise community-source teaching, learning and research collaboration system. The partnership provides colleges and universities with comprehensive … Continue reading

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University Skills Group online skills courses now hosted in WebLearn

The WebLearn team has been working closely with the University Skills Group (USG – formerly the Graduate Skills Advisory Group) to move the former ‘Online courses’ (now called ‘Career Development Skills’) into new WebLearn. The courses were previously hosted within … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group – 29 Sep 2010, 2-4 in OUCS

You are invited to join us at OUCS for our next meeting to hear about the latest updates to the system and share ideas about WebLearn practice: NEXT MEETING of the WebLearn User Group: Michaelmas Term 2010 Wednesday 29 September … Continue reading

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Video tutorial guides for site managers

The WebLearn team employed a student intern over the summer to produce video screencast tutorials demonstrating the use of some of the most important tools in WebLearn. The 18 videos are now available on the WebLearn Guidance site listed as … Continue reading

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TurnItIn2 – overview of changes

This is from the TurnItIn newsletter and refers to the submit.ac.uk service. Turnitin now has a new interface and a number of new features. For many it has been a welcome change, and for others there may be a learning … Continue reading

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