Embed Oxford Podcasts in your site

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Adam Marshall

We have developed a new tool (Oxford Podcasts) which now makes it very easy to embed items from the rapidly growing Oxford Podcasts collection into a WebLearn site. (The Oxford Podcasts website contains exactly the same material as Oxford’s iTunesU … Continue reading →

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Can I remove the ‘users present’ display on a site?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The display of the ‘users present’ information can be suppressed by the central WebLearn team. If you would like take advantage of this facility then please get in touch with us stating the site URL and the name of the … Continue reading →

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WebLearn courses during Hilary Term 2011

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Here are the dates for WebLearn courses and the WebLearn User Group meeting during Hilary Term 2011. Course details are available on the courses database and bookings open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/. There is now a … Continue reading →

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Displaying WebLearn calendars on external websites

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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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Tool permissions explained

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Ever wondered what a particular permission does? Well wonder no longer – here is a page explaining the most common ones: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Permission+Descriptions+%282.7%29

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Dates for courses this term

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Dear WebLearn Users Here are the course dates for WebLearn courses during Michaelmas Term 2010. Note that bookings are essential and open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/ There is now a regular course on using the Survey … Continue reading →

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Survey tool now available

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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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Video tutorial guides for site managers

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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 much better way of migrating content from Old WebLearn

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Adam Marshall

We have recently introduced a much improved method of moving content out of Old WebLearn and in to New WebLearn. This method employs IMS Content Packages (IMS CP) as a transport medium. This has the advantage of preserving HTML descriptions … 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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