Displaying WebLearn calendars on external websites

Some users are taking advantage of WebLearn’s ability to export calendars in ‘iCal’ format and are syndicating their calendars to departmental intranets or public websites. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences also (luckily) known as NDORMS have adopted … Continue reading

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WebLearn’s Mobile Phone Interface

I thought it would be useful to explain the mechanics behind the WebLearn (Sakai) mobile phone interface (m.ox). Mobile Oxford (or m.ox) is based on a piece of open source software called Molly which relays (or ‘proxys’) requests from a … Continue reading

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New Module Enrolment Tool

Michaelmas term 2010 saw the introduction of a brand new locally written module registration tool known as SES (Student Enrolment System). The tool works in conjunction with a course or module database known as DAISY which is being developed by … Continue reading

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Using Tableau to visualise ‘Site Stats’ reports

Thanks to Andy Cotgreave for writing most of this article. Site Stats is a fantastic WebLearn tool. Once added to a site, it will track all activity within that site and can produce colourful pie charts and histograms of predefined … Continue reading

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Tool permissions explained

Ever wondered what a particular permission does? Well wonder no longer – here is a page explaining the most common ones: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Permission+Descriptions+%282.7%29

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Call for Participation – WebLearn Polls via m.ox (Mobile Oxford)

Have you ever wished your students could respond in class using personal voting systems (‘clickers’), but never quite got around to trying it? Well now you don’t need any special technology – the students can answer questions on their internet-enabled … Continue reading

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Sakai and JASIG Foundations To Pursue Merger

Early this year, Jasig, the parent organization for uPortal, CAS, Bedework and other open source software serving higher education, and the Sakai Foundation, which supports the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment, formed Board-level groups to examine ways the two organizations … Continue reading

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Become a member of the Sakai Foundation Board

A note from Ian Dolphin (Executive Director, Sakai Foundation). Please contact the central team if you are interested: Over the course of October and November the Sakai Foundation will be holding elections for two positions on the Foundation Board. In … Continue reading

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Survey tool now available

The WebLearn Survey tool (released as a Beta) can be used to design and manage electronic questionnaires to be delivered on-line. Surveys can be created to gather data for research purposes, general data gathering, or for course, lecturer or tutor … Continue reading

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SunGuard become Sakai partners

“Malvern, Pa., September 28, 2010 — SunGard Higher Education and rSmart today announced a partnership regarding the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE), an enterprise community-source teaching, learning and research collaboration system. The partnership provides colleges and universities with comprehensive … Continue reading

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