WebLearn User Group talks- Technology-enhanced learning and teaching
- An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.
- Turnitin at Oxford
- New Turnitin Guides site
- Free Turnitin workshops 2024
- NewsGuard: check the veracity of online news services
- Resources to assist Turnitin instructors
- Turnitin free webinars
- Take a look at the Oxford Turnitin FAQs
- How can Turnitin be used to investigate the academic integrity of a piece of student writing?
- 2019 Turnitin User Summit
- Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 13 July 16:00-00:00
- Message from Turnitin about the recent takeover
- Sakai in UK HE
- An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.
- LTG Case Studies
- LTG Likes
- An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.
- OxTALENT
- An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.
Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool
The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Content creation, Library, New features, Reading lists, Resources, Sir Louie
Leave a comment
New Version of WebLearn Released (v2.6-ox4.0)
Apologies for the delay in this announcement! New WebLearn was upgraded on 20th July 2010, to 2.6-ox4.0 New Facilities – The Highlights Users can now become members of ‘Joinable’ sites by simply visiting the site – previously one had to … Continue reading
Posted in Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Bug, Migration from old WebLearn, New features, Resources, Site management, Survey, System notices
Leave a comment
Reading lists are set to improve
The Sir Louie Project Sir Louie – System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment. This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University’s … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged For colleges, Google Scholar, Library, New features, Reading lists, Resources, Student systems integration
Leave a comment
Possible Turnitin Outage Sept 4-5
Just in from iParadigm There will be a special maintenance window for the Turnitin service on September 4th, 2010 in conjunction with our launch of Turnitin2. Schedule Confirmed Maintenance Start Date: Saturday, Sept. 4 at 17:00 GMT Projected Maintenance End … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Turnitin, WebLearn
Tagged Assignments, System notices, Turnitin
Leave a comment
Joining sites
We have made recently improvements to the process of becoming a member of a Joinable site. What is a joinable site? A: If you are not ‘manually’ adding members to your site then you should ensure that your site is … Continue reading
Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker
GLO Maker is an authoring tool to design and develop learning objects (called ‘GLOs’). GLO Maker is a powerful and user friendly tool to create new learning objects, or adapt and repurpose existing learning objects. An author can prepare images, … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Web, WebLearn
Tagged Content creation, Free software, Resources
Leave a comment
Change to WebLearn SLD
The WebLearn Service Level Description is just about to be updated. The main changes are the withdrawal from the ‘Secondary Tools’ list of the Blogger and Presentation tools and the addition to the ‘Secondary Tools’ list of the Survey Beta … Continue reading
Times Higher article about a “Plagiarism tariff”
There’s an interesting article in the Times Higher (17 June 2010) which proposes a method of ‘scoring’ plagiarism. The article provides three examples of plagiarism, how these offences are scored, and how a decision on censure is reached. As the … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Turnitin, WebLearn
Tagged Assignments, For colleges, Plagiarism, Turnitin
Leave a comment
Formal submission of Essays using WebLearn – pilot
Online submission of coursework significantly enhances the student experience, allows work to undergo automatic plagiarism analysis, and facilitates the distribution of submissions to departments and examiners. These are the preliminary findings of an online submission pilot being run by Student … Continue reading
IMS LTI video
The esteemed Chuck Severance (former Sakai CEO) has put together a video about IMS LTI. This is a technology that will appear in WebLearn next year and which allows departments or colleges to integrate their own tools into WebLearn. Information … Continue reading