Student access to Turnitin reports

An investigation into the use of Turnitin in UK HE institutions, focusing upon student access to the service has just been released. Martin King, Senior Learning & Technology Officer, Royal Holloway College, University of London, conducted a study on Turnitin … Continue reading

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Using Turnitin for plagiarism detection and prevention

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!

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

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)

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

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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Survey tool now available

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

“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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University Skills Group online skills courses now hosted in WebLearn

The WebLearn team has been working closely with the University Skills Group (USG – formerly the Graduate Skills Advisory Group) to move the former ‘Online courses’ (now called ‘Career Development Skills’) into new WebLearn. The courses were previously hosted within … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group – 29 Sep 2010, 2-4 in OUCS

You are invited to join us at OUCS for our next meeting to hear about the latest updates to the system and share ideas about WebLearn practice: NEXT MEETING of the WebLearn User Group: Michaelmas Term 2010 Wednesday 29 September … Continue reading

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