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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Adding ‘awesome’ icons to web page in WebLearn
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, most pages in WebLearn 11 use a new icon set: Font Awesome icons. You may well recognise these icons from other websites or phone ‘Apps’. Unlike the previous (‘Silk’) icons these are not images, they … Continue reading
Learning Activities to Promote Student Collaboration
Guest post by Lucy Tallents & Jocelyne Hughes The SHOAL portal will go live in March, following a beta-testing phase in February (to participate in the trial, email shoal@maillist.ox.ac.uk). As the release date approaches, we will blog about specific learning … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, For departments, Teaching and Learning
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6 Tips For Good Web Design
We found a very interesting resource developed by usability guru Jakob Nielson which gives some points about good design. Here’s a condensed summary: People cannot use information they are unable to find: try to situate material in the most obvious place – try … Continue reading
Pasting from MS Word into WebLearn
We often get complaints about ugly and poorly formatted text in WebLearn which appears as a result of cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word. (All advice in this blog also applies to MS Outlook as it uses the same text … Continue reading
Writing for the Web video playlist
Many of you know that all Oxford University members have unlimited access to lynda.com, an on-line library of high-quality instructional videos on the latest software tools and skills. To signup go to http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/lynda With more than 3,700 courses taught by … Continue reading
Introducing Replay – Lecture Capture
Educational Media Services is running a pilot project, called Replay, using Panopto lecture capture software to record lectures as a revision aid for Oxford students. Panopto is easy to use and unobtrusive. It captures audio and slides, automatically synchronises them, … Continue reading
Creating (WebLearn) content using Xerte: Webinar 8 April @ 17:00
Xerte is an (ALT-C) award winning suite of browser-based tools developed by Nottingham University that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive and accessible learning materials quickly and easily. Xerte is a new project to Apereo, currently working … Continue reading
Proposal: deliver all user created web pages in ‘standards mode’
In our Easter upgrade, we propose to change the default behaviour of WebLearn and deliver all HTML pages which have been authored within WebLearn and are stored in Resources in ‘standards mode’ rather than ‘quirks mode’ as they currently are. … Continue reading
Five great free screen capture tools
Thanks to Fawei Geng for this post. Screen capture software can be used to: deliver online lectures that include annotations create demo videos for any computer programs record a video explaining a technical solution to a problem frequently asked by … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, Free software, Podcasts, Teaching and Learning
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Google Scholar removes ‘Import into WebLearn’ functionality
We knew it was going to happen, but we didn’t know when! As hinted at in a previous blog post about Google Scholar, Google have finally removed the ‘Import into WebLearn’ link from their scholarly search results page. This facility … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, Google Scholar, Library, Reading lists, Resources, Sir Louie
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