Using Turnitin for plagiarism detection and prevention

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Turnitin is an online text-matching system that can be used to help identify potential plagiarism in electronically submitted student work. It can also be used formatively, for tutors to help students develop their academic writing and citation skills. Turntin highlights … Continue reading →

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WebLearn team member wins a competition!

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

At the nLearning Plagiarism conference in Newcastle in June,  a competition was held for attendees to write for slogans warning students against plagiarism. WebLearn team member Dr Jill Fresen submitted 3 slogans and the first one was chosen as a … Continue reading →

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New TurnItIn newsletter

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

There is a brand new TurnItIn newsletter. Topics covered: Reducing the Prevalence of Cheating In The News Upcoming Events Upcoming Webinars and Training Scheduled Maintenance Links Read the newsletter

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Call for Participation – WebLearn Polls via m.ox (Mobile Oxford)

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Have you ever wished your students could respond in class using personal voting systems (‘clickers’), but never quite got around to trying it? Well now you don’t need any special technology – the students can answer questions on their internet-enabled … Continue reading →

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Dates for courses this term

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Dear WebLearn Users Here are the course dates for WebLearn courses during Michaelmas Term 2010. Note that bookings are essential and open 30 days in advance of each course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/ There is now a regular course on using the Survey … Continue reading →

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Sakai and JASIG Foundations To Pursue Merger

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Early this year, Jasig, the parent organization for uPortal, CAS, Bedework and other open source software serving higher education, and the Sakai Foundation, which supports the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment, formed Board-level groups to examine ways the two organizations … Continue reading →

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Old WebLearn user importer now fixed

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The problems with old WebLearn have now been fixed. New students should now be able to access their material. The problem related to the format of the data which is used as a basis for the creation of accounts for … Continue reading →

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Become a member of the Sakai Foundation Board

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Adam Marshall

A note from Ian Dolphin (Executive Director, Sakai Foundation). Please contact the central team if you are interested: Over the course of October and November the Sakai Foundation will be holding elections for two positions on the Foundation Board. In … Continue reading →

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Survey tool now available

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

The WebLearn Survey tool (released as a Beta) can be used to design and manage electronic questionnaires to be delivered on-line. Surveys can be created to gather data for research purposes, general data gathering, or for course, lecturer or tutor … Continue reading →

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SunGuard become Sakai partners

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

“Malvern, Pa., September 28, 2010 — SunGard Higher Education and rSmart today announced a partnership regarding the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE), an enterprise community-source teaching, learning and research collaboration system. The partnership provides colleges and universities with comprehensive … Continue reading →

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