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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Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai
This article by Josh Baron outlines the annual Sakai T&L awards. The article details this year’s winners and gives of examples of the kind of innovation that the courses offer. It’s well worth a quick read, see: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/10/14/Innovating-Teaching-and-Learning-with-Sakai.aspx
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Displaying an Oxitems feed within a site
Oxitems is Oxford’s institutional RSS / Newsfeed service and as such is available for free to every department and college. It really is quite brilliant. It is NOT possible to position a WebLearn News tool in the RHS column of … Continue reading
Writing for the web – tips
I attended Stephen Sangar’s excellent session at the recent UAS conference and made some notes. I thought it may be useful to post them here: use a meaningful title in the page head Begin with an introduction AND summary. Moreover, … Continue reading
Use WebLearn with students before they arrive
Now that students are supplied with their Oxford SSO credentials before they arrive at University they will be able to access WebLearn in advance of starting their studies. Reading lists and documents can be circulated and formative assessment carried out … Continue reading
Subscribing to external calendars in WebLearn
There is an external calendar subscription feature in WebLearn, but, unfortunately, it still has some limitations: • doesn’t support full day events; • doesn’t support events not defined with <event>; • doesn’t support re-occurring events; • doesn’t support events without … Continue reading
How to display a web page displaying ‘foreign characters’ in WebLearn
Files containing non-standard characters must be encoded using UTF-8; ISO-8859 encoded files cannot be used. It is possible to convert between the formats using a program such as ‘iconv’.
The recently updated WebLearn website
In conjunction with the launch of the new WebLearn service, the WebLearn area of the OUCS website has been radically overhauled and moved to a new URL. The website contains a lot of useful information about the service (as opposed … Continue reading
Recent Improvements to the New WebLearn Service
The recent improvements to the functionality of new WebLearn include: • the introduction of a comprehensive guidance site (see elsewhere in this issue); • a new version of the (Tutorial) Sign-up tool with repeating events; • integration of the Assignments … Continue reading
The Sign-up Tool
The Sign-up tool is available to all site owners and allows users to organise and sign up for tutorials, study groups, annual reviews, seminars, courses and the like. It allows either single or repeated meeting to be scheduled and will … Continue reading
Pandemic Planning – how WebLearn can help you.
New WebLearn offers many facilities which will be invaluable to Departments should parts of the University have to close due to a ‘Swine flu’ pandemic. Read more about how WebLearn can help with Pandemic Planning on the OUCS website.
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