Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWISA) Now Open for Entries

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Adam Marshall

Call for Entries: 2013 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) The Sakai Teaching and Learning community is seeking submissions for the annual Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) competition. The award recognizes innovation and excellence in technology-supported teaching, academic collaboration, … Continue reading →

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Turnitin and the avoidance of plagiarism

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Adam Marshall

IT Services supports the use of Turnitin, the plagiarism awareness software, and provides training and help materials for academic and administrative staff. Turnitin User Group meetings take place each term, with the next on Tuesday 12 March, 2:00 – 4:00. … Continue reading →

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Research into Effective Site Templates

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Adam Marshall

The following paper written by Jill Fresen, Fawei Geng and erstwhile WebLearn team Academic Visitor Robin Hill, was published in the Journal of ALT: Research in Learning Technology at the end of last year. Derivation of electronic course templates for … Continue reading →

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WebLearn and Plagiarism Courses Hilary Term 2013

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn and Plagiarism Courses – Hilary Term 2013 A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services free of charge, to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Student Experience Project

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Fawei Geng

Adapted from the project report by Joanna Wild and Fawei Geng Introduction From 1 October 2011 to 30 April 2012 the DIGE (Student Digital Experience) project was carried at Oxford.  In the project report,  staff and student feedback about WebLearn … Continue reading →

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Chart of logins around the start of term

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Adam Marshall

I thought it may interest people to see how many separate logins are made per day around the start of term. Note that these are separate logins not unique users. The graph shows a peak of 17044 on the first … Continue reading →

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EuroSakai in Paris 28th-30th Jan 2013

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Adam Marshall

From Ian Dolphin: I am pleased to announce the 2013 EuroSakai Conference, in association with ESUP and Jasig. The event will be hosted by University P.M. Curie (UPMC-Sorbonne Universités) at its Jussieu Campus in Paris between January 28th and 30th. … Continue reading →

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WebLearn User Group meeting: Tuesday 25 September

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn User Group meeting: Tuesday 25 September 14:00-16:00 (followed by cream tea), Venue: IT Services (formerly OUCS), 13 Banbury Road. Presentations from: Claire Aland (Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics): Behind the scenes – supporting Anatomy teaching using WebLearn Liz … Continue reading →

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Creating your own web page with embedded media players

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Fawei Geng

As a maintainer or contributor, you can easily create a web page with embedded media players in WebLearn. Here is how: 1. Create a public site. Use Site Info > Manage Access to grant access to ‘Anyone’. 2. If they … Continue reading →

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WebLearn User Group 2pm, 10th July 2012

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Please come along to the next meeting of the WebLearn User Group, to be held at OUCS on Tuesday 10 July from 2 to 4pm, followed by cream tea. Booking is required: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TOVD More details: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/info/eas Adam Marshall will enlighten … Continue reading →

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