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- Secure Access to Additional Verification Sites
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- WebLearn and Turnitin Courses for Trinity 2013
- Linking to External Tools from a VLE/LMS: IMS LTI, oAuth or Webauth (or any other web-based Single Sign-On)?
- OxTALENT Awards 2013 – Call for entries – deadline 17 May
- WebLearn upgraded to version 2.8-ox5
- Do you want to change a site URL?
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- WebLearn User Group meeting 20 March 2pm
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- SES / OXCAP: When is a course ‘upcoming’?
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Turnitin at Oxford- Reminder about Copyright policy: WebLearn
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LTG Case Studies- Blogging the Truth about Research
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Does your Resources tool display the wrong file types?
Sometimes one sees the wrong icon next to a file in the Resources tool, this may also have the side effect of forcing the download of a file rather than opening it in the browser. This can be quite annoying. … Continue reading
Byte-sized Resources tool
Hints and tips that emerged from the WebLearn Bytes – Resources session on 5 November 2012: Top-level permissions ‘cascade down’ to all folders and files in Resources (set ‘top-level’ permissions using the blue link at the top of the Resources … Continue reading
Personalising Weblearn (Sakai) – The BMS Portal page
Article written by Jon Mason This year (2011-12), a new course, Biomedical Sciences, started within the Medical Sciences Division. This course combines teaching specific to the course with teaching shared with other courses. In response to this, we wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Sakai, Web, WebLearn
Tagged Announcements, Calendar, My Workspace, Resources, Web Services
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Upload Problems with Safari on a Mac
We have applied a patch which we think addresses this problem We think recent versions of Safari (and probably Chrome) on a Mac have a bug that is preventing files from being uploaded. This is affecting the Assignments tool (and … Continue reading
Xerte content authoring tool
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
Posted in e-learning, Web
Tagged Content creation, Free software, Resources, RSS, Xerte
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GLOMaker content authoring tool
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
Posted in e-learning, Web, WebLearn
Tagged Content creation, For departments, Free software, GLOmaker, Resources
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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
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
Posted in Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Content creation, Help, Home page, HTML WYSIWYG editor, Resources, Roles, Site management, Training
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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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Tagged Content creation, Google Scholar, Library, New features, Reading lists, Resources
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A much better way of migrating content from Old WebLearn
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
Posted in Migration, Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Help, Migration from old WebLearn, New features, Resources, Training
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