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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Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker

GLO Maker is an authoring tool to design and develop learning objects (called ‘GLOs’). GLO Maker is a powerful and user friendly tool to create new learning objects, or adapt and repurpose existing learning objects. An author can prepare images, … Continue reading

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Change to WebLearn SLD

The WebLearn Service Level Description is just about to be updated. The main changes are the withdrawal from the ‘Secondary Tools’ list of the Blogger and Presentation tools and the addition to the ‘Secondary Tools’ list of the Survey Beta … Continue reading

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Times Higher article about a “Plagiarism tariff”

There’s an interesting article in the Times Higher (17 June 2010) which proposes a method of ‘scoring’ plagiarism. The article provides three examples of plagiarism, how these offences are scored, and how a decision on censure is reached. As the … Continue reading

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Formal submission of Essays using WebLearn – pilot

Online submission of coursework significantly enhances the student experience, allows work to undergo automatic plagiarism analysis, and facilitates the distribution of submissions to departments and examiners. These are the preliminary findings of an online submission pilot being run by Student … Continue reading

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IMS LTI video

The esteemed Chuck Severance (former Sakai CEO) has put together a video about IMS LTI. This is a technology that will appear in WebLearn next year and which allows departments or colleges to integrate their own tools into WebLearn. Information … Continue reading

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Want to use the WebLearn tools icons on your site

These icons are all available in the following folder: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/public/images/silk/ There is a handy ‘crib sheet’ containing all the images; this is useful in finding the name of the image: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/public/images/silk/1-silk_icons_index.png Here is an example of use within a WebLearn … Continue reading

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Content authoring tools

Recent discussion on the Sakai mailing lists has highlighted three interesting free content creation systems http://www.udutu.com/ http://exelearning.org/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ Here’s what their websites say: “MyUdutu™ is a FREE web-based tool which provides a user friendly platform to create highly interactive elearning … Continue reading

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Sakai Conference 2011: Berlin, 14-16 June 2011

From the latest Sakai newsletter: “The next annual Sakai conference is only 11.5 months away. Mark the dates on your calendar now. We will meet in Berlin at the Ramada Hotel Berlin – Alexanderplatz on June 14 – 16, with … Continue reading

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WLUG: Copyright and WebLearn

The original article has been removed and has been replaced by the standard copyright notice for display beside public photocopiers and scanners. This may be useful as well: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/copy/copyright Photocopying and scanning under the CLA Higher Education Licence The University … Continue reading

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