WebLearn podcast is supremely popular!

Rev Dr James Robson ‘Supporting Tutorials: WebLearn’ is the most popular podcast on Oxford Podcasts this week and has had 60 likes on YouTube. Revd Dr James Robson is a Winner of the OxTALENT 2011 Award for ‘Best Use of … Continue reading

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WebLearn report: Oct 2011- Jan 2012

Period: Oct 2011- Jan 2012 Software New WebLearn was upgraded in Jan 2012 – it now stands at v2.6-0x10. For more detailed information please looked at the relevant blog post: https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2012/01/new-weblearn-was-upgraded-on-10th-january-2012-to-version-2-6-ox10/ We will move to Sakai 2.8 at Easter. Improvements … Continue reading

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Supporting Tutorials Using WebLearn

The tutorial system lies at the heart of Oxford’s educational experience, to further this practice LTG have produced a video case study entitled WebLearn: Supporting Tutorials. Supporting tutorial practices through the use of technology can enable both tutors and students … Continue reading

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Humanities Student Enrolment System now working

A patch was applied to WebLearn this morning (17 Jan 2012) which fixed the teething problems that Humanities students will have experienced when trying to use the Student Enrolment System over the last 7 days We apologise for any inconvenience … Continue reading

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Instability problems (hopefully) fixed

We hope that this morning’s reconfiguration and restart of WebLearn will stop the problems of instability that have dogged WebLearn over the last week. We apologise for the unscheduled breaks in service and really hope that these are a thing … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Courses Hilary Term 2012

A variety of taught courses are offered by OUCS free of charge, to support the use of WebLearn and (as from this term) the plagiarism prevention and detection software Turnitin. In most cases, the course books can also be downloaded … Continue reading

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New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10

New WebLearn was upgraded on 10th January 2012 to version 2.6-ox10. We had intended to move to 2.8-ox1 but unfortunately have had to delay this again, this time until the Easter 2012 release. Many apologies for the delay. Improvements Surveys … Continue reading

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Sharing Survey Templates

Over the last year or two, the most requested enhancement to WebLearn has been the ability to share the authoring of survey templates. The good news is that we have made enhancements to make this possible. In this case, collaborative … Continue reading

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Introducing the OxCAP Project

OxCAP is a JISC funded initiative to expose data (as an XML feed) about courses at Oxford. This project has the explicit backing of the PVC for Education and the Registrar. It is agreed that we concentrate on graduate training … Continue reading

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New Guidance Site

2012 sees the introduction of a brand new look for the WebLearn Guidance Site. We have tried to make the site easier to navigate and also make it look more visually appealing. It should be easier to find what you … Continue reading

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