Change In Sakai Foundation’s Executive Director

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Michael Korcuska is leaving the Sakai Foundation to take up a new post at LinkedIn. From a personal point of view this is a big shame – Michael has been a frequent visitor to Oxford and I will miss our … Continue reading →

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How do I find free images for use in WebLearn?

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Adam Marshall

I have recently been using Flickr to find photographs with a Creative Commons licence so that I can use them to liven up my Power Point presentations; however, there is no reason why they couldn’t be used to liven up … Continue reading →

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Old WebLearn Content Migration course

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Adam Marshall

You are your colleagues are invited to attend the course “WebLearn: Migrating your content”, which is held on a monthly basis at OUCS. Course Description: If you’re a user of old WebLearn you need to migrate your content to the … Continue reading →

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Colleges: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Adam Marshall

A few colleges have expressed interest in using new WebLearn to support their students before they arrive in Oxford. At the simplest level this could involve hosting an ‘Electronic Welcome pack” in WebLearn; however, now that students receive their login … Continue reading →

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Automatically updating a site from a database with a script

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Adam Marshall

A colleague here in OUCS is using new WebLearn in a fairly novel way. They have a database (actually a subversion repository) full of HTML-based teaching material and fancied making it available in WebLearn (in addition to other places where … Continue reading →

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Is WebLearn Secure?

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn does not currently have any known security issues and all connections and data transfers to and from the new WebLearn are encrypted using the secure HTTPS network protocol. The WebLearn team are kept constantly up to date by the … Continue reading →

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Correction to WebLearn SLD

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Adam Marshall

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/sld/weblearn.xml In the WebLearn SLD, the limit for My Workspace was incorrectly specified as 250MB, this has been corrected to be 100MB. Apologies for this error.

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New wiki help document

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The WebLearn team have developed a new help document for the wiki: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/info/local-wiki-help.html It has been authored in the wiki itself.

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Administration sites: What can the ”Audit” role do?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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 →

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Administration sites: What is the difference between the ”Admin” and ”Member” roles?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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 →

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