How do non-Oxford users obtain and change their WebLearn password?

Account Activation When you are added to a WebLearn site with a non-Oxford email address, you will receive an email containing an ‘Invitation’ link which looks very much like this. Clicking on the ‘Accept this invitation’ link will open the … Continue reading

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Can I remove the ‘users present’ display on a site?

The display of the ‘users present’ information can be suppressed by the central WebLearn team. If you would like take advantage of this facility then please get in touch with us stating the site URL and the name of the … 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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WebLearn courses next term

From Michaelmas term, we will be offering a new course ‘WebLearn: Surveys‘ which enables Oxford users to design and deliver online surveys at no charge. If you have materials in the old WebLearn system (Bodington), come and attend the course … Continue reading

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New Version of WebLearn Released (v2.6-ox4.0)

Apologies for the delay in this announcement! New WebLearn was upgraded on 20th July 2010,  to 2.6-ox4.0 New Facilities – The Highlights Users can now become members of ‘Joinable’ sites by simply visiting the site – previously one had to … Continue reading

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Joining sites

We have made recently improvements to the process of becoming a member of a Joinable site. What is a joinable site? A: If you are not ‘manually’ adding members to your site then you should ensure that your site is … 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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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

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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!

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