Liven up your WebLearn pages!

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Adam Marshall

It is a little known fact that WebLearn now contains Twitter’s Bootstrap library. Bootstrap is world’s most popular front-end component library and can be used to make amazing-looking and fully responsive dynamic web pages. Bootstrap allows you to easily add the following … Continue reading →

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Creating (WebLearn) content using Xerte: Webinar 8 April @ 17:00

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Adam Marshall

Xerte is an (ALT-C) award winning suite of browser-based tools developed by Nottingham University that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive and accessible learning materials quickly and easily. Xerte is a new project to Apereo, currently working … Continue reading →

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Changes to the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Licence

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Adam Marshall

The University’s information and advice on complying with the CLA Licence and relevant University procedures has been substantially revised and is now available at the copyright licencing pages of the Academic Services and University Collections website. The pages include guidance … Continue reading →

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Mobile Oxford vs. AppGrad WebLearn ‘App’ – one clear winner!

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Adam Marshall

Mobile Oxford provides the only fully supported WebLearn mobile application. This provides easy-access to a handful of the most popular areas of WebLearn, it also restricts the ability to remove material which is invaluable should the mobile device be lost … Continue reading →

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WebLearn 2.8-ox7.1 Released: Many Fixes for Firefox 23 Blocked Content Included

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded on 12th September 2013 to version 2.8-ox7.1. This was an emergency release which added functionality to WebLearn so that it rewrites pages in order to display content and links that would otherwise be blocked by Firefox 23 … Continue reading →

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Five great free screen capture tools

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Adam Marshall

Thanks to Fawei Geng for this post. Screen capture software can be used to: deliver online lectures that include annotations create demo videos for any computer programs record a video explaining a technical solution  to a problem frequently asked by … Continue reading →

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Finding images for use in WebLearn

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Most of the images that can be found on the web will have some sort of copyright attached to them. If you want to use an image on the web, in a Power Point presentation or in WebLearn then you must … Continue reading →

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Seminar: using digital media to support research and teaching

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Stuart Lee is giving a talk for the Digital Media User Grounp on Friday 13th (2pm Isis, OUCS) on his experience in using digital media to support his research and teaching. Details below and book here: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/DMUG Using his personal … Continue reading →

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Displaying RSS (& Twitter) feeds on HTML pages in WebLearn

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn has a built-in tool, News, for displaying RSS feeds; it is even possible to display feeds from Oxford Podcasts – these will feature an in-page media player for audio and audio-visual podcast display. Sometimes it is desirable to insert … Continue reading →

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WebLearn now has a Short URL facility

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Adam Marshall

We have had many complaints about the length of URLs for items stored within Resources. A common problem is that the URLs get split when included in email messages. The URL of a site (or tool within a site) can … Continue reading →

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