WebLearn: Design and content course – questions answered and tips

The following questions were asked at the WebLearn: Design and content course at IT Services on 14 November 2013: Q: I have embedded a YouTube video on my page.  When it finishes playing, the player displays a number of suggested … Continue reading

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How to compress large video files without losing quality using Handbrake

Large video files are slow to upload and download.  One of the most popular tools that can significantly shrink the file size without losing quality is Handbrake.  It is popular due to three reasons: It can convert video from nearly … Continue reading

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Missed the last WebLearn User Group meeting? Recordings (audio and slides) available online

The presentations from the last meeting ( 2nd October) are available in the User Group site- https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/info/eas/ (Log into the site and click “WLUG Presentations” from the course menu on the left).    A big thank you to all the presenters. … Continue reading

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How to display public tweets in a WebLearn page

If you used Twitter’s feed to display public tweets in WebLearn, you may notice that it has stopped working.  This is not caused by WebLearn but by a change in Twitter which no longer supports RSS feeds. This blog post … Continue reading

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WebLearn Student Experience Project

Adapted from the project report by Joanna Wild and Fawei Geng Introduction From 1 October 2011 to 30 April 2012 the DIGE (Student Digital Experience) project was carried at Oxford.  In the project report,  staff and student feedback about WebLearn … Continue reading

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Byte-sized Surveys tool

Questions and Answers that emerged from the WebLearn Bytes – Surveys session on 8 November 2012: Q: Can WebLearn Surveys handle branching, e.g. skip to a certain part of a survey based on a participant’s response? A: No. A possible solution … Continue reading

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Creating your own web page with embedded media players

As a maintainer or contributor, you can easily create a web page with embedded media players in WebLearn. Here is how: 1. Create a public site. Use Site Info > Manage Access to grant access to ‘Anyone’. 2. If they … Continue reading

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WebLearn improvements after the upgrade from v2.6 to v2.8

There have been a number of new features and improvements in WebLearn as a result of the recent WebLearn upgrade. Three new features at site level: Short URL If you click on a link icon on a page, a pop-up … Continue reading

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Using Templates to Create New Sites

Post by Fawei Geng & Adam Marshall The recent upgrade to WebLearn version 2.8 has seen the introduction of a number of site templates. These templates can be used when creating a site from scratch and will impose structure and … Continue reading

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