FAO: Local WebLearn Coordinators in your department, faculty or college

Are you new in the role of Local WebLearn Coordinator? Do you perhaps need a refresher about the do’s and don’ts of managing your unit’s WebLearn presence? Did you  know that you must never add external accounts to the Administration … Continue reading

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Copyright seminar (and others)

The following lunchtime seminars may be of interest to WebLearn users: Engage: Understanding copyright in the digital age. Tue 04 Nov 12:30-13:30. Book: http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/ENAT WebLearn Bytes: Assignments. Mon 03 Nov 12:30-13:30. Book: http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TOVL Plagiarism: Interpreting originality reports using Turnitin. Wed … Continue reading

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FAQs from the WebLearn Surveys lunchtime session

Thanks to the participants in the WebLearn Bytes: Surveys session on Tuesday 18 February 2014 for the following interesting questions. Question: Is it possible to merge survey results based on the same template? Answer: The WebLearn Surveys tool cannot pull … Continue reading

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FAQs from Site Management/Resources session

Thanks to the participants in the WebLearn Bytes: Site Managment and Resources session on Tuesday 11 February 2014 for the following interesting questions: Q: What is the difference between the Chat and Forums (Discussions) tools? A: Conversations conducted using the … Continue reading

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Tests tool – WebLearn Bytes session

These points were noted at the WebLearn Bytes: Tests and quizzes held on 26 November 2013, and may be helpful to other WebLearn users: The Tests tool offers 6 types of questions: Multiple choice, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Essay and Task. … Continue reading

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Joinable sites in WebLearn

Question In Site Info > Manage Access, what is the relationship between the Additional Access tick boxes that allow various sets of people to visit a site, and the Joinability option ‘Can be joined by anyone with authorization to log … Continue reading

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WebLearn Bytes: Assignments – MT 2013

The following tips emerged from the lunch time session WebLearn Bytes: Assignments on 12 November 2013: If you are using Assignments with the Markbook tool, do all assignment creation, editing, marking and removal  in the Assignments tool. You must make … Continue reading

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Surveys tool – Byte-sized session

These questions were raised at the WebLearn Bytes: Surveys lunch time session on 29 October 2013: Q: I know I can tick a box to allow respondents to change their answers (on the Survey settings page). How does this work in … 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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Byte-sized Site Info tool 14 May 2013

The following questions emerged at the lunchtime session on the Site Info tool on 14 May 2013: Q: How do you delete a site? A: Good question – this option is not part of the Site Info ‘dashboard’. To delete … Continue reading

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