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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Learn about WebLearn reading lists

There will be a workshop entitled “Weblearn Reading lists and SOLO” which will be run by the Weblearn team on 13 July.  The new Weblearn – SOLO integration makes it much easier to create simple reading lists from SOLO, and … Continue reading

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Reading List Improvements

Overview This post outlines the improvements made to Reading Lists within WebLearn. This was made possible by virtue of the successful completion of the JISC funded Sir Louie Project. (Thanks to Angela Carritt for help with this post.) It is … Continue reading

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A video explaining the Sir Louie project

This video of me at JISC’s Flexible Service Delivery seminar in Nottingham on 9th September will probably become a cult internet hit one day. In the meantime it should help to clarify what we are planning to do within the … Continue reading

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Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool

The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading

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Reading lists are set to improve

The Sir Louie Project Sir Louie – System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment. This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University’s … Continue reading

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Reading lists / Google Scolar now working again

“Import into WebLearn” functionality in Google Scholar appears to working again. Apologies for the break in service.

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Reading lists / Google Scholar problems

The “Import into WebLearn” link disappeared from the Google Scholar interface with WebLearn’s Reading List  tool some time during last week (17-21 May 2010). According to Google, this problem was caused by a failure when Google’s crawler last tried to … Continue reading

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