OxTALENT WebLearn awards

A red carpet event was held at IT Services on 18 June 2014 to celebrate and showcase the use of digital technology in support of learning and teaching. We gave prizes to more than 20 winners from across the collegiate university, in … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group – 2-4pm, Monday 7 July 2014

The next WebLearn User Group meeting is to be held on  Monday 7 July 2014 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd. It will of course be followed by cream tea. Booking is required (for catering purposes) … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 24 June 2014 from 7-9am

In order to deploy some important system updates, WebLearn will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes between 0700-0900 on Tuesday 24th June. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no service during this period. We apologise for any … Continue reading

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Announcing the start of WeRP – The “WebLearn Resilience Project”

IT Services has just launched a brand new project aimed at improving the resilience of WebLearn. The project which started in June 2014 and will run for 9 months aims to improve the infrastructure that supports the WebLearn architecture. WebLearn … Continue reading

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Changes to copyright law for disabled learners

Come along to the WebLearn User Group meeting at IT Services on 7 July 2014 at 14:00 to learn more about ‘Writing accessible web pages’ (Booking is required at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TOVD). The following news release is from Jisc: see http://jisc.msgfocus.com/q/112eRgM9oyVzKqK4cdb/wv “Disabled … Continue reading

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Kind words about WebLearn from Continuting Education Students

A number of these students report how helpful and effective the ‘on-line platform(s)’ are that they use as part of their Sustainable Urban Development M.Sc. course. One of these platforms is, of course, WebLearn which is used extensively by the Department of … Continue reading

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