Mobile Oxford vs. AppGrad WebLearn ‘App’ – one clear winner!

Mobile Oxford provides the only fully supported WebLearn mobile application. This provides easy-access to a handful of the most popular areas of WebLearn, it also restricts the ability to remove material which is invaluable should the mobile device be lost … Continue reading

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Data Flow in the OXCAP Project

We thought it may be useful to explain how data about graduate training makes its way from training providers into the SES tool in WebLearn. To do this we produced the diagram below. This shows the 3 different methods of … Continue reading

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Accessing WebLearn via Mobile Oxford: Wed 16 Nov, 12:30-13:30 at OUCS

Did you know that you can have students complete a quick quiz during a lecture using their mobile phones and instantly see and discuss the results? Did you know that students can use their mobile phones to receive course announcements, … Continue reading

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Interesting report by UC Berkley about Mobile Access to Sakai

I just came across this comprehensive and very interesting report by UC Berkley detailing what students would find useful if a mobile interface into Sakai were developed. The top two wishes were viewing Announcements and checking details of Assignments. Mobile … Continue reading

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WebLearn Announcements now available via Mobile Oxford

The Mobile Oxford team have now added the Announcements tool to their WebLearn area. Clicking on the Announcements link in Mobile Oxford will collate all announcements from all sites where the user is a participant and display them in a … Continue reading

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Technical information about oAuth and Sakai (WebLearn)

Matthew Buckett wrote this article about the authentication technology that we opted to use to allow mobile phones to connect to WebLearn (Sakai). “We went down the route of using OAuth between Mobile Oxford (m.ox) and Sakai as it allowed … Continue reading

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Mobile Oxford wins the UCISA Award for Excellence

Mobile Oxford which amongst other things provides access to WebLearn on a mobile phone has just won a prestigious award. Mobile Oxford is being used as part of our Mobile Phone Polls pilot – students can vote in a WebLearn … Continue reading

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