Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?

JISC News release 7 April 2011 Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR? A new elearning module from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance is to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and … Continue reading

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University Skills Group online skills courses now hosted in WebLearn

The WebLearn team has been working closely with the University Skills Group (USG – formerly the Graduate Skills Advisory Group) to move the former ‘Online courses’ (now called ‘Career Development Skills’) into new WebLearn. The courses were previously hosted within … Continue reading

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Video tutorial guides for site managers

The WebLearn team employed a student intern over the summer to produce video screencast tutorials demonstrating the use of some of the most important tools in WebLearn. The 18 videos are now available on the WebLearn Guidance site listed as … Continue reading

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A video explaining the Sir Louie project

This video of me at JISC’s Flexible Service Delivery seminar in Nottingham on 9th September will probably become a cult internet hit one day. In the meantime it should help to clarify what we are planning to do within the … Continue reading

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Converting MS Word to HTML

Pasting text into WebLearn’s WYSIWYG HTML editor which has been copied from either Microsoft Word or Outlook is a hit and miss affair. Pasting directly (via the ‘Paste’ button) is not recommended. Pasting using the ‘Paste from Word’ button does … Continue reading

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Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool

The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading

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Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker

GLO Maker is an authoring tool to design and develop learning objects (called ‘GLOs’). GLO Maker is a powerful and user friendly tool to create new learning objects, or adapt and repurpose existing learning objects. An author can prepare images, … Continue reading

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Want to use the WebLearn tools icons on your site

These icons are all available in the following folder: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/public/images/silk/ There is a handy ‘crib sheet’ containing all the images; this is useful in finding the name of the image: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/public/images/silk/1-silk_icons_index.png Here is an example of use within a WebLearn … Continue reading

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Content authoring tools

Recent discussion on the Sakai mailing lists has highlighted three interesting free content creation systems http://www.udutu.com/ http://exelearning.org/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ Here’s what their websites say: “MyUdutu™ is a FREE web-based tool which provides a user friendly platform to create highly interactive elearning … Continue reading

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WLUG: Copyright and WebLearn

The original article has been removed and has been replaced by the standard copyright notice for display beside public photocopiers and scanners. This may be useful as well: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/copy/copyright Photocopying and scanning under the CLA Higher Education Licence The University … Continue reading

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