Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award 2012

Each year the Sakai Foundation runs a competition to recognise and promote innovation in using Sakai (WebLearn at Oxford) for teaching and learning. The winners have travel expenses and conference registration paid to attend and present their innovations at the … Continue reading

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WebLearn courses MT 2011

The following IT Learning Programme (OUCS) courses focusing on WebLearn are scheduled for the remainder of the term. Please book by following the respective link to the course booking system. WebLearn: Surveys Tuesday 22 November, 2-5 pm WebLearn Surveys (beta) … Continue reading

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Subscribing to WebLearn calendars using Outlook

As a WebLearn user, you may wish to make your WebLearn calendar visible in other calendaring applications such as Outlook, Thunderbird (with the Lightning add-on), Google or iCal (Mac). What is a calendar subscription? Subscribing to your WebLearn calendar means … Continue reading

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Teaching with Sakai webinar 21/11/11 at 8pm

You are invited to register for the upcoming Teaching with Sakai webinar series: Wikifolios, Wikiflections, & Exams for Online Participation, Understanding & Achievement Monday, November 21, 2011 8pm (3 pm EST; noon PST) Daniel Hickey (Indiana University – Bloomington) is … Continue reading

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Upload Problems with Safari on a Mac

We have applied a patch which we think addresses this problem We think recent versions of Safari (and probably Chrome) on a Mac have a bug that is preventing files from being uploaded. This is affecting the Assignments tool (and … Continue reading

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Accessing WebLearn via Mobile Oxford: Wed 16 Nov, 12:30-13:30 at OUCS

Did you know that you can have students complete a quick quiz during a lecture using their mobile phones and instantly see and discuss the results? Did you know that students can use their mobile phones to receive course announcements, … Continue reading

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Supporting Institutional Practice for feedback and Assessment (SIPA) Project

The WebLearn team is investigating, promoting and supporting the use of the external Turnitin plagiarism detection and prevention service and allied products GradeMark (online marking and annotations) and PeerMark (student peer marking and assessment). Turnitin is integrated into the WebLearn … Continue reading

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WebLearn report: May 2011- Oct 2011

Period: May 2011- Oct 2011 Software New WebLearn was upgraded for times between May and Oct 2011 – it now stands at v2.6-0x9.1. For more detailed information please looked at the relevant blog posts: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/07/weblearn-upgraded-to-2-6-ox8/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/08/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox8-1-on-22-august-2011/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/10/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-on-27-september-2011/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/10/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-1-on-18-october-2011/ Old WebLearn … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgraded to version 2.6-ox9.1 on 18 October 2011

Detailed Release Notes – WebLearn – Version 2.6-ox9.1 – 18 October 2011 New WebLearn was upgraded on 18th October 2011 to version 2.6-ox9.1. Improvements Introduction of Private Calendar URLs so one can subscribe to non-public site calendars within MS Outlook … Continue reading

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What browsers & operating systems are used to access WebLearn?

I thought this pie chart of browser accesses to WebLearn may pique interest – for “Safari” read “Safari / Chrome”! This is from the period 1st August 2010 to 31 July 2011. Here’s a similar chart for operating systems.

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