A recipie to display a Google Calendar in WebLearn

It is quite easy to surface a Google Calendar within WebLearn – you may want to do this if you find that the default WebLearn calendar doesn’t quite do what you want. The Conference of Colleges use this approach, they … Continue reading

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Four Indispensable Tips

I thought I would post these Four Top Tips which were presented to the recent WebLearn User Group. Site redirects It is now possible to redirect users to a new site should they use an old URL. As an example, … Continue reading

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Personalising Weblearn (Sakai) – The BMS Portal page

Article written by Jon Mason This year (2011-12), a new course, Biomedical Sciences, started within the Medical Sciences Division. This course combines  teaching specific to the course with teaching shared with other courses. In response to this, we wanted to … Continue reading

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Subscribing to WebLearn calendars using Outlook

As a WebLearn user, you may wish to make your WebLearn calendar visible in other calendaring applications such as Outlook, Thunderbird (with the Lightning add-on), Google or iCal (Mac). What is a calendar subscription? Subscribing to your WebLearn calendar means … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgraded to version 2.6-ox9.1 on 18 October 2011

Detailed Release Notes – WebLearn – Version 2.6-ox9.1 – 18 October 2011 New WebLearn was upgraded on 18th October 2011 to version 2.6-ox9.1. Improvements Introduction of Private Calendar URLs so one can subscribe to non-public site calendars within MS Outlook … Continue reading

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Displaying WebLearn calendars on external websites

Some users are taking advantage of WebLearn’s ability to export calendars in ‘iCal’ format and are syndicating their calendars to departmental intranets or public websites. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences also (luckily) known as NDORMS have adopted … Continue reading

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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

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How do I display a WebLearn calendar in my email client (Nexus)

The best way to do this is to subscribe to a WebLearn calendar (rather than import) so that new events or changes to existing events are reflected. First of all, the ”Schedule” on a site needs to be exported (click … Continue reading

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Subscribing to external calendars in WebLearn

There is an external calendar subscription feature in WebLearn, but, unfortunately, it still has some limitations: • doesn’t support full day events; • doesn’t support events not defined with <event>; • doesn’t support re-occurring events; • doesn’t support events without … Continue reading

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