Humanities Student Enrolment System now working

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Adam Marshall

A patch was applied to WebLearn this morning (17 Jan 2012) which fixed the teething problems that Humanities students will have experienced when trying to use the Student Enrolment System over the last 7 days We apologise for any inconvenience … Continue reading →

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Instability problems (hopefully) fixed

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Adam Marshall

We hope that this morning’s reconfiguration and restart of WebLearn will stop the problems of instability that have dogged WebLearn over the last week. We apologise for the unscheduled breaks in service and really hope that these are a thing … Continue reading →

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WebLearn and Turnitin Courses Hilary Term 2012

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Adam Marshall

A variety of taught courses are offered by OUCS free of charge, to support the use of WebLearn and (as from this term) the plagiarism prevention and detection software Turnitin. In most cases, the course books can also be downloaded … Continue reading →

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New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Adam Marshall

New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10. We had intended to move to 2.8-ox1 but unfortunately have had to delay this again, this time until the Easter 2012 release. Many apologies for the delay. Improvements Surveys … Continue reading →

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Sharing Survey Templates

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Over the last year or two, the most requested enhancement to WebLearn has been the ability to share the authoring of survey templates. The good news is that we have made enhancements to make this possible. In this case, collaborative … Continue reading →

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Introducing the OxCAP Project

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Adam Marshall

OxCAP is a JISC funded initiative to expose data (as an XML feed) about courses at Oxford. This project has the explicit backing of the PVC for Education and the Registrar. It is agreed that we concentrate on graduate training … Continue reading →

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New Guidance Site

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Adam Marshall

2012 sees the introduction of a brand new look for the WebLearn Guidance Site. We have tried to make the site easier to navigate and also make it look more visually appealing. It should be easier to find what you … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Service Level Description Updated

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Adam Marshall

The WebLearn Service Level Description has been updated. The following changes have been made: section 1.1 – Bodington now read-only section 2.7 – users cannot now upload into Bodington section 2.13 – add HFS as a related service section 2.14 … Continue reading →

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WebLearn unaffected by recently announced changes to email service

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The following note was sent by OUCS on 13 December 2011. WebLearn is unaffected as it uses oxmail to send messages and does not connect directly to smtp.ox.ac.uk. As we can’t rely on people not to give away their SSO … Continue reading →

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Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award 2012

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Each year the Sakai Foundation runs a competition to recognise and promote innovation in using Sakai (WebLearn at Oxford) for teaching and learning. The winners have travel expenses and conference registration paid to attend and present their innovations at the … Continue reading →

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