Are your students suffering from volcanic ash induced woe?

New WebLearn offers many facilities which will be invaluable should students not be able to attend lecturers due to circumstances beyond their control. WebLearn has many tools that will allow teaching and learning to continue in the absence of face-to-face … Continue reading

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Some new lunchtime learning technology sessions this term in OUCS

This Friday lunchtime sees the start of our new Make: courses which highlight the creative use of technology in research and teaching.  We are all looking forward to the first session, Make: Websites – Using MedLearn.  This one-hour presentation will … Continue reading

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Comments on: ‘Eduserv-funded study into the use of Microsoft SharePoint in UK Higher Education Institutions’ Report

From: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/SPfinal.pdf “Microsoft is promoting SharePoint as a VLE. ……… Despite not being frequently deployed as an institutional VLE, SharePoint is being used in teaching and learning, particularly for functions which are not easily fulfilled by the VLE, for example: … Continue reading

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Whats new in WebLearn 2.6-ox3

New Version of WebLearn Released Both WebLearn systems were upgraded on 13th April 2010, new WebLearn to 2.6-ox3 and old WebLearn to 2.34. New WebLearn New Facilities – The Highlights Better auto-generated passwords. Tasks, Tests and surveys now works properly … Continue reading

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Copyright course at OUCS – April 29th

Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Content course – April 29th Are you involved in recording events, placing material on-line, using images for website or creating educational content ?  If so, then this course is for you! Further details and booking … Continue reading

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WebLearn Courses for TT 2010

Here are the course dates for WebLearn courses during Trinity Term 2010. Note that bookings on the courses database open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/ There is a new course on offer in conjunction with the Oxford … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgrade 7-9am, 13th April

WebLearn will be unavailable for a short period between 7am and 9am on Tuesday the 13th of April for an upgrade. Both the old and new systems will be down during this time. The outage will only be brief, but … Continue reading

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Proposal to remove Blogger and Presentations tools

The next release of Sakai (the software upon which new WebLearn is based) will not contain the Blogger and Presentation tools and for this reason we are proposing that they be phased out of WebLearn’s toolset. Ideally we would not … Continue reading

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Copying within the Evaluations (Survey) Tool

Thanks to Jill for this. Test 1: Create NEW template. Create new survey based on that template. Edit a question in the template. There is NO CHANGE to that question in the existing survey – Good! Test 2: COPY a … Continue reading

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Closure of Old WebLearn Test Building

As part of the migration to the new WebLearn, it is our intention to close Old WebLearn’s Test Building on 21 June 2010 (Wk9 TT2010). What will happen when the Test Building closes? All material in the Test Building become … Continue reading

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