How is Sakai faring in the face of competition from Canvas? Quite well actually!

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Adam Marshall

Dr Chuck (with a little help from yours truly) has written an excellent blog post outlining the (minimal) impact of Michigan, Stanford and Indiana’s ‘defection’ from Sakai to Canvas. It makes an interesting read.

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Five great free screen capture tools

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Adam Marshall

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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Finding images for use in WebLearn

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Most of the images that can be found on the web will have some sort of copyright attached to them. If you want to use an image on the web, in a Power Point presentation or in WebLearn then you must … Continue reading →

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TechDis: Assistive Technology

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Adam Marshall

JISC TechDis have long argued that the key to enhancing access to the curriculum is the effective use of technology. By their very nature, resources in digital format can be accessed more independently and personalised more easily. Terry McAndrew and … Continue reading →

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Xerte content authoring tool

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The University of Nottingham’s Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. Pat Lockley, worked in the Xerte team (who won the 2009 ALT Learning Technologists Team of … Continue reading →

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GLOMaker content authoring tool

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Adam Marshall

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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The benefits of an Open Source VLE

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Start Lee and Melissa Highton recently gave a virtual presentation to a conference in Malaysia via Skype. One of the things they spoke about is the benefits to Oxford of choosing an Open Source VLE. FutureGov Asia picked up on … Continue reading →

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WebLearn’s Mobile Phone Interface

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Adam Marshall

I thought it would be useful to explain the mechanics behind the WebLearn (Sakai) mobile phone interface (m.ox). Mobile Oxford (or m.ox) is based on a piece of open source software called Molly which relays (or ‘proxys’) requests from a … Continue reading →

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Converting MS Word to HTML

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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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Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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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