How to move the Home Page text into Resources

If you want to move the text of your home page into the Resources tool then you can follow this ‘recipe’. (You may wish to do this if your home page contains JavaScript code or other page elements that are … Continue reading

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WebLearn 2.8-ox7.1 Released: Many Fixes for Firefox 23 Blocked Content Included

WebLearn was upgraded on 12th September 2013 to version 2.8-ox7.1. This was an emergency release which added functionality to WebLearn so that it rewrites pages in order to display content and links that would otherwise be blocked by Firefox 23 … 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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Updated version of the WYSIWYG HTML editor guide now available

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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A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching

Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading

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How do I get rid of the little Forums & Calendar panels on the Home Page?

Many users complain that the Schedule and Messages/Forums panels do not look very good on the Home Page. There is no way to remove them but there is a fairly acceptable work-around. What you can do is: Copy the “home … Continue reading

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