WebLearn User Group talks- Technology-enhanced learning and teaching
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- 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
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- LTG Case Studies
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- OxTALENT
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Reading lists / Google Scholar problems
The “Import into WebLearn” link disappeared from the Google Scholar interface with WebLearn’s Reading List tool some time during last week (17-21 May 2010). According to Google, this problem was caused by a failure when Google’s crawler last tried to … Continue reading
Doing URL redirects using WebLearn
Sometimes it is very useful to add a level of indirection to your URLs – this would allow you to publicise a single fixed URL but periodically change what it is pointing to (behind the scenes). This technique is called … Continue reading
Weblearn courses this term (TT2010)
We are please to announce the following FREE courses ranging from getting started, to making your site more effective, and migrating your materials from old to new WebLearn. The WebLearn Assignments tool is integrated with the Turnitin plagiarism detection service, … Continue reading
Conducting public surveys using WebLearn
WebLearn has a Beta version of a tool that can be used for conducting public surveys. At the start of the Long Vacation, a new ‘Survey’ option will appear in the list of tools available to a WebLearn site. As … Continue reading
A new survey tool is to be added to WebLearn
WebLearn is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, it provides a large array of tools to support teaching and learning and course administration. A new survey tool will be made available at the start of the Long Vacation. The tool allows … Continue reading
Survey & Migrations courses
Need to know how to deliver free online surveys? Book yourself a place on the WebLearn: Pilot Evaluations Tool workshop, to be held at OUCS on Tuesday 18 May 2010 (09:15-11:15). Need to learn how to migrate your content from … Continue reading
Call for nominations: OxTALENT 2010 awards. Category: “Use of WebLearn to support a course or programme of study”
Call for nominations: OxTALENT 2010 awards. Category: “Use of WebLearn to support a course or programme of study” Eligibility: Members of Oxford University involved in teaching at undergraduate or graduate level, who use WebLearn to support online study and interaction … Continue reading
Student IT for Learning Award
OxTALENT, in collaboration with OUCS’s Learning Technologies Group organises an annual competition and awards for the innovative use of IT in teaching and learning at Oxford. The OxTALENT awards recognise, with financial and other prizes, innovative use of technology in … Continue reading
VLE Team report (15 Jan 2010 – 4 May 2010)
Software During this period there have been upgrades to both old and new WebLearn. New WebLearn: New Facilities – The Highlights Better auto-generated passwords. Tasks, Tests and surveys now works properly for non site participants. Podcasts in non public sites … Continue reading
Having problems pasting text into WebLearn from MS Word or Outlook?
If you are on a PC, there is a nice free utility called PureText, which removes formatting from text – it runs in the background and instead of pressing Control-V to paste, you press Windows-V if you want to strip … Continue reading