Restore facility fixed

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Adam Marshall

I failed to blog this at the time. The ‘Restore’ facility in Resources was fixed on 8 June 2010. All files deleted after 9am on that date will be recoverable for a period of 90 days.

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Updated version of the WYSIWYG HTML editor guide now available

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Adam Marshall

New sections have been added adding a table, creating an index, and inserting an image. In addition many screen-shots have been improved and the document has been made more accessible. See: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/HTMLeditor8.pdf

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New wiki help document

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The WebLearn team have developed a new help document for the wiki: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/info/local-wiki-help.html It has been authored in the wiki itself.

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Writing for the Web – tips 2

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Adam Marshall

I attended an ITLP Writing for the Web course in OUCS yesterday and thought I’d share some tips I picked up. Before you start your web page or website you should do the following: clarify the objective – write this … Continue reading →

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All WebLearn icons now stored within the system

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn uses a series of free icons known as the “Silk Icons”. All these icons are now accessible from within WebLearn from the following location. On occasions, it may be useful to display these images on a page, for example … Continue reading →

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SoftChalk announces Sakai integration

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Adam Marshall

SoftChalk v5 will contain Sakai (WebLearn) integration. Let Ed Garay from University of Illinois at Chicago explain: SoftChalk is essentially an easy-to-use yet powerful authoring tool (Windows and Mac) for instructors to create simple, intermediate and even advanced (and interactive) … Continue reading →

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Displaying Twitter feeds in a WebLearn page

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Adam Marshall

This page was updated on 20 October 2012 To display Tweets within an HTML page do the following. At the place where you want the Tweets to appear, switch to the Source view of the HTML page (using the button … Continue reading →

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Are your attachments failing to open?

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Attachments can be added to Announcements, Assignments and email messages. Some people have been confused as to why some site participants are unable to open such attachments so the WebLearn team has been investigating. In order for a user to … Continue reading →

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Displaying an Oxitems feed within a site

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Oxitems is Oxford’s institutional RSS / Newsfeed service and as such is available for free to every department and college. It really is quite brilliant. It is NOT possible to position a WebLearn News tool in the RHS column of … Continue reading →

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Writing for the web – tips

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Adam Marshall

I attended Stephen Sangar’s excellent session at the recent UAS conference and made some notes. I thought it may be useful to post them here: use a meaningful title in the page head Begin with an introduction AND summary. Moreover, … Continue reading →

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