WebLearn User Group talks- Technology-enhanced learning and teaching
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- Turnitin at Oxford
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- NewsGuard: check the veracity of online news services
- Resources to assist Turnitin instructors
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- Sakai in UK HE
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Tool permissions explained
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
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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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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Administration sites: What can the ”Audit” role do?
This is an Administration Site role which give the participant rights to audit or view all sites managed by the Administration Site. Specifically, a participant with the audit role may: visit all sites managed by the Administration Site (including unpublished … Continue reading
Administration sites: What is the difference between the ”Admin” and ”Member” roles?
The admin role is more powerful than the member role. The admin role can visit and ‘maintain’ all sites that are managed by the Administration Site. A participant with the member role has to be a participant within a site … Continue reading
What is the difference between the ”access”, ”contribute” and ”maintain” roles?
The maintain and contribute roles are very similar. The maintain role is allowed to change tool permissions and add site participants and create new sites (so long as they are a member of an Administration Site) but otherwise the roles … Continue reading
I clicked ”Switch to access role” on an unpublished site and now I can’t see my site. What to do?
Site participants with the access role cannot see unpublished sites so the above-mentioned behaviour is to be expected (if not entirely useful). Logging out and then logging in again will cure the problem!
How do Administration Sites work?
First of all one should read these two step-by-step guides: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/adminsites1.pdf https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/hierarchy7.pdf Here is a summary of the basic points: an Administration Site is said to manage one or more (regular) sites; members of Administration Sites are the only WebLearn … Continue reading