Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award 2012

Each year the Sakai Foundation runs a competition to recognise and promote innovation in using Sakai (WebLearn at Oxford) for teaching and learning. The winners have travel expenses and conference registration paid to attend and present their innovations at the … Continue reading

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GLOMaker content authoring tool

London Metropolitan University’s GLOMaker tool is a free open source tool which allows elearning developers and content authors to produce highly structured and media rich interactive learning materials. In May, Professor Tom Boyle from the Reusable Learning Objects CETL gave … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgraded to 2.6-ox8

Release Notes – WebLearn – Version 2.6-ox8 – 12 July 2011 New WebLearn was upgraded on 12th July 2011 to version 2.6-ox8. For more detailed information please looked at the detailed release notes. General Improvements When sites are copied, a … Continue reading

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When do new students get access to WebLearn?

There has been a bit of interest in using WebLearn as a resource to help new students before their arrival in Oxford; I made a blog post about this entitled: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn. I thought it … 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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New Module Enrolment Tool

Michaelmas term 2010 saw the introduction of a brand new locally written module registration tool known as SES (Student Enrolment System). The tool works in conjunction with a course or module database known as DAISY which is being developed by … Continue reading

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A Report Investigating the Effectiveness of the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service

A report has recently been released about the use of Turnitin in terms of its effectiveness. The White Paper “The Effectiveness of Turnitin and WriteCycle” (White Paper from turnitin.com, 2009) reports on the use of Turnitin worldwide in helping to … Continue reading

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Student access to Turnitin reports

An investigation into the use of Turnitin in UK HE institutions, focusing upon student access to the service has just been released. Martin King, Senior Learning & Technology Officer, Royal Holloway College, University of London, conducted a study on Turnitin … Continue reading

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Survey tool now available

The WebLearn Survey tool (released as a Beta) can be used to design and manage electronic questionnaires to be delivered on-line. Surveys can be created to gather data for research purposes, general data gathering, or for course, lecturer or tutor … 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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