Improvements to WebLearn in version 11-ox12

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded to version 11-ox12 at the end of August: this was a small release. Improvements Lessons, the correct list of content providers is now listed on the More Tools > External Tool Import’ page – this is the … Continue reading →

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Free Apereo OAE service to close

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Adam Marshall

We recently received this from the people at *Research about the *Unity platform. (*Unity is another name for the Apereo Open Academic Environment) Dear Colleague *Unity will close down on 10 September 2018. After that you won’t be able to … Continue reading →

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Replay (Lecture Capture Service) Downtime plus Mandatory Upgrade

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Adam Marshall

From Steve Pierce (Replay Service Delivery Manager) Dear Replay community, Mandatory client upgrade to 5.6 or above – July 21 Downtime – July 24 18:00 – 21:00 Downtime – July 28 23:00 – July 29 02:00 Downtime – August 11 … Continue reading →

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Testing IMS LTI Support

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Adam Marshall

SaLTIre is a very useful “tool” for testing IMS LTI support. The site https://lti.tools/saltire/ provides a test Tool Provider and Tool Consumer which is great for quick checks of LTI support. The website was originally developed as part of a JISC project.

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Add Interactive Video Content to WebLearn

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Adam Marshall

Those wonderful people at H5P have made some improvements to their interactive video content type. (This allows one to embed a You Tube video in an HTML page or Lessons pages and overlay quizzes, pop-up text or other types of … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Usage Over The Last 6 Years

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

I thought it would be useful to present some of the WebLearn usage figures that we used to supply for the annual report. Many apologies for the missing unique visitors data. 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 Unique visitors 12,385 … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Upgraded to Version 11-ox11

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded on 19th June 2018 to version 11-ox11. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. The main focus for this release was ‘behind-the-scenes’ improvements required as part of the move to Canvas, however, there are some … Continue reading →

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Liven up your WebLearn pages!

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Adam Marshall

It is a little known fact that WebLearn now contains Twitter’s Bootstrap library. Bootstrap is world’s most popular front-end component library and can be used to make amazing-looking and fully responsive dynamic web pages. Bootstrap allows you to easily add the following … Continue reading →

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 19/Jun/2018 7-9am

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Adam Marshall

We plan to upgrade WebLearn to version 11-ox11 on Tuesday 19/Jun/2018  7-9am. This upgrade will introduce a number of new features connected to the move to Canvas plus a handful of bug fixes. There will be no service during this … Continue reading →

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Improvements in WebLearn v11-ox9 released on 23 Jan 2018

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Adam Marshall

A new version of WebLearn (version 11-ox9) was released on Tuesday 23 January 2018. There have been a number of improvements especially in the area of anonymous essay submissions. Here is a breakdown of the enhancements. Anonymous Submissions / Assignments A warning … Continue reading →

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