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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How do I find out who my Local WebLearn Coordinator is?
Help is at hand, there’s a list on the OUCS website. See: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/admin-sites-list.xml This list is updated nightly.
Minor WebLearn upgrade on 8 June 2010
An upgrade was successfully completed on Tuesday the 8th of June 2010. The service was unavailable for a few minutes between 8 and 8.30am. Improvements included: The Restore facility in the Resources tool now works correctly. (Unfortunately any files deleted … Continue reading
Our very own Mathew Buckett has been elected as a Sakai Foundation Fellow
Matthew Buckett has just been elected as a Sakai Fellow for 2010. It’s a great honour and is a way of the Sakai community thanking him for absolutely top notch contributions over the last few years. Personally I think he … Continue reading
The ‘Restore’ facility in Resources is currently not working.
We have just discovered that it is not possible to recover any files deleted from the Resources Tool after 7am on 19th January 2010. Under normal circumstances, one is able to use the Resource Tool’s ‘Restore’ facility, however, a bug … Continue reading
Reading lists / Google Scolar now working again
“Import into WebLearn” functionality in Google Scholar appears to working again. Apologies for the break in service.
A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching
Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading
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OUCS Help Centre now administer WebLearn email queries
All messages sent to the WebLearn email address are now routed to the OUCS Help Centre. Help Centre staff will attempt to answer any queries but if they are unable to do so then the query will be forwarded to … Continue reading
Reading lists / Google Scholar problems
The “Import into WebLearn” link disappeared from the Google Scholar interface with WebLearn’s Reading List tool some time during last week (17-21 May 2010). According to Google, this problem was caused by a failure when Google’s crawler last tried to … Continue reading
Doing URL redirects using WebLearn
Sometimes it is very useful to add a level of indirection to your URLs – this would allow you to publicise a single fixed URL but periodically change what it is pointing to (behind the scenes). This technique is called … Continue reading
Weblearn courses this term (TT2010)
We are please to announce the following FREE courses ranging from getting started, to making your site more effective, and migrating your materials from old to new WebLearn. The WebLearn Assignments tool is integrated with the Turnitin plagiarism detection service, … Continue reading