How do I get rid of the little Forums & Calendar panels on the Home Page?

Many users complain that the Schedule and Messages/Forums panels do not look very good on the Home Page. There is no way to remove them but there is a fairly acceptable work-around. What you can do is: Copy the “home … Continue reading

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new URLs for Library Systems

Message from Dave Price: Dear All, In consequence of the OULS name change to Bodleian Libraries, SOLO, OxLIP+ and OU e-Journals have been given new URLs. They are respectively: http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://ejournals.bodleian.ox.ac.uk These new URLs are now in operation. The … Continue reading

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All about Sakai

Michael Korcuska made this presentation about the Sakai Project when he visited Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia in 2007: http://polimedia.upv.es/visor/?id=7f1f319b-7bd5-0b43-8b81-8bb5660d70a5

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Change In Sakai Foundation’s Executive Director

Michael Korcuska is leaving the Sakai Foundation to take up a new post at LinkedIn. From a personal point of view this is a big shame – Michael has been a frequent visitor to Oxford and I will miss our … Continue reading

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How do I find free images for use in WebLearn?

I have recently been using Flickr to find photographs with a Creative Commons licence so that I can use them to liven up my Power Point presentations; however, there is no reason why they couldn’t be used to liven up … Continue reading

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Old WebLearn Content Migration course

You are your colleagues are invited to attend the course “WebLearn: Migrating your content”, which is held on a monthly basis at OUCS. Course Description: If you’re a user of old WebLearn you need to migrate your content to the … Continue reading

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Colleges: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn

A few colleges have expressed interest in using new WebLearn to support their students before they arrive in Oxford. At the simplest level this could involve hosting an ‘Electronic Welcome pack” in WebLearn; however, now that students receive their login … Continue reading

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Automatically updating a site from a database with a script

A colleague here in OUCS is using new WebLearn in a fairly novel way. They have a database (actually a subversion repository) full of HTML-based teaching material and fancied making it available in WebLearn (in addition to other places where … Continue reading

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Is WebLearn Secure?

WebLearn does not currently have any known security issues and all connections and data transfers to and from the new WebLearn are encrypted using the secure HTTPS network protocol. The WebLearn team are kept constantly up to date by the … Continue reading

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Correction to WebLearn SLD

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/sld/weblearn.xml In the WebLearn SLD, the limit for My Workspace was incorrectly specified as 250MB, this has been corrected to be 100MB. Apologies for this error.

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