WebLearn unavailable on 12 February 2013 7-9am

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Adam Marshall

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox4.2 on Tuesday 12 February 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. Sorry for the short notice. This bugfix release will address problems with the SES tool.

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WebLearn and Turnitin: Apr 2012 – Oct 2012

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Adam Marshall

I forgot to post this last October, better late than never! The headline news is that Old WebLearn (aka Bodington) is no more: it was decommissioned on 18th September and its demise seems to have cause very little impact indeed. … Continue reading →

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Oct 2012 – Jan 2013

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Adam Marshall

Old WebLearn (aka Bodington) really is no more now: it was decommissioned on 18th September and finally turned off during the week of 14 January 2013. There were over 17,000 separate logins to (new) WebLearn on the first day of … Continue reading →

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WebLearn unavailable on 22 January 2013 7-9am

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Adam Marshall

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox4.1 on Tuesday 22 January 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. Sorry for the short notice. This bug fix release will address problems with the SES tool.

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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 upgraded to version 2.8-ox4 on 8 January 2013

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Adam Marshall

New WebLearn was upgraded on 8th January 2013 to version 2.8-ox4. For more detailed information please looked at the detailed release notes. Improvements Brand new Search tool: site names, site descriptions and reading lists now indexed Many improvements to Student … 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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OXCAP – Oxford’s use of Share Point

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Adam Marshall

Thanks to Alex Dutton for the helping with this post. The OXCAP project is about collecting and distributing information about graduate training opportunities at The University of Oxford. This information is stored in the University’s Open Data Service (ODS) and … Continue reading →

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Data Flow in the OXCAP Project

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Adam Marshall

We thought it may be useful to explain how data about graduate training makes its way from training providers into the SES tool in WebLearn. To do this we produced the diagram below. This shows the 3 different methods of … Continue reading →

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WebLearn on Twitter

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn has a twitter account: @oxfordweblearn. You will find out all the latest news about your favourite VLE by following us!

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