TurnItIn2 – overview of changes

This is from the TurnItIn newsletter and refers to the submit.ac.uk service. Turnitin now has a new interface and a number of new features. For many it has been a welcome change, and for others there may be a learning … Continue reading

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Call for Judges — Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award

The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee is seeking distinguished individuals to serve as judges for the fourth annual competition for this international award. We are looking for judges who have a passion for teaching, and whose life-long work … Continue reading

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A video explaining the Sir Louie project

This video of me at JISC’s Flexible Service Delivery seminar in Nottingham on 9th September will probably become a cult internet hit one day. In the meantime it should help to clarify what we are planning to do within the … Continue reading

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WebLearn courses next term

From Michaelmas term, we will be offering a new course ‘WebLearn: Surveys‘ which enables Oxford users to design and deliver online surveys at no charge. If you have materials in the old WebLearn system (Bodington), come and attend the course … Continue reading

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Sakai Teaching and Learning Initiatives

This is taken from the latest Sakai newsletter: Following work at the 2010 Sakai Conference in Denver, the Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L) group has identified priority initiatives for the upcoming year. During the year leading up to the 2011 … Continue reading

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Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool

The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading

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Reading lists are set to improve

The Sir Louie Project Sir Louie – System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment. This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University’s … Continue reading

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Possible Turnitin Outage Sept 4-5

Just in from iParadigm There will be a special maintenance window for the Turnitin service on September 4th, 2010 in conjunction with our launch of Turnitin2. Schedule Confirmed Maintenance Start Date: Saturday, Sept. 4 at 17:00 GMT Projected Maintenance End … Continue reading

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Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker

GLO Maker is an authoring tool to design and develop learning objects (called ‘GLOs’). GLO Maker is a powerful and user friendly tool to create new learning objects, or adapt and repurpose existing learning objects. An author can prepare images, … Continue reading

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