WebLearn Courses for TT 2010

Here are the course dates for WebLearn courses during Trinity Term 2010. Note that bookings on the courses database open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/ There is a new course on offer in conjunction with the Oxford … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgrade 7-9am, 13th April

WebLearn will be unavailable for a short period between 7am and 9am on Tuesday the 13th of April for an upgrade. Both the old and new systems will be down during this time. The outage will only be brief, but … Continue reading

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Proposal to remove Blogger and Presentations tools

The next release of Sakai (the software upon which new WebLearn is based) will not contain the Blogger and Presentation tools and for this reason we are proposing that they be phased out of WebLearn’s toolset. Ideally we would not … Continue reading

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Copying within the Evaluations (Survey) Tool

Thanks to Jill for this. Test 1: Create NEW template. Create new survey based on that template. Edit a question in the template. There is NO CHANGE to that question in the existing survey – Good! Test 2: COPY a … Continue reading

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Closure of Old WebLearn Test Building

As part of the migration to the new WebLearn, it is our intention to close Old WebLearn’s Test Building on 21 June 2010 (Wk9 TT2010). What will happen when the Test Building closes? All material in the Test Building become … Continue reading

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How do I get rid of the little Forums & Calendar panels on the Home Page?

Many users complain that the Schedule and Messages/Forums panels do not look very good on the Home Page. There is no way to remove them but there is a fairly acceptable work-around. What you can do is: Copy the “home … Continue reading

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How do I find free images for use in WebLearn?

I have recently been using Flickr to find photographs with a Creative Commons licence so that I can use them to liven up my Power Point presentations; however, there is no reason why they couldn’t be used to liven up … Continue reading

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Old WebLearn Content Migration course

You are your colleagues are invited to attend the course “WebLearn: Migrating your content”, which is held on a monthly basis at OUCS. Course Description: If you’re a user of old WebLearn you need to migrate your content to the … Continue reading

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Colleges: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn

A few colleges have expressed interest in using new WebLearn to support their students before they arrive in Oxford. At the simplest level this could involve hosting an ‘Electronic Welcome pack” in WebLearn; however, now that students receive their login … Continue reading

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Automatically updating a site from a database with a script

A colleague here in OUCS is using new WebLearn in a fairly novel way. They have a database (actually a subversion repository) full of HTML-based teaching material and fancied making it available in WebLearn (in addition to other places where … Continue reading

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