WebLearn OxTALENT Awards

The annual OxTALENT Awards are presented each June. The deadline for entries is mid-day 16th May 2014. This year we are pleased to announce six open award categories, and we encourage you or your colleagues to enter examples of Oxford … Continue reading

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WebLearn was upgraded on Tuesday 15th April 2014 to version 2.8-ox10

WebLearn was upgraded on Tuesday 15th April 2014 to version 2.8-ox10. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do so by contributing … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 15 April 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox10 on Tuesday 15 April 2014 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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Proposal: Prevent the removal of ‘read’ access from Resources

In our Easter upgrade, we propose to put measures in place to stop site managers from removing the ‘Read resources’ permission within the Resources Tool. The reason for this is that over the last couple of years we have had … Continue reading

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Proposal: deliver all user created web pages in ‘standards mode’

In our Easter upgrade, we propose to change the default behaviour of WebLearn and deliver all HTML pages which have been authored within WebLearn and are stored in Resources in ‘standards mode’ rather than ‘quirks mode’ as they currently are. … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 11 March 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to restart the WebLearn AFS servers on Tuesday 11 March 2014 7-9am. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no WebLearn service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 18 February 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox9.2 on Tuesday 18 February 2014 7-9am. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn and TurnItIn report Oct 2013 -Jan 2014

Turnitin iParadigms suffered a couple of outages of their TurnItIn Academic service during December which provoked outcry amongst  the UK user community. iParadigms have been very apologetic and have promised not to let this happen again; the Turnitin CEO will … Continue reading

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WebLearn and TurnItIn Courses in Hilary Term 2014

WebLearn and Plagiarism Awareness Courses      Hilary Term 2014 A variety of taught courses are offered by IT Services to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be … Continue reading

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