WebLearn User Group talks- Technology-enhanced learning and teaching
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- Turnitin at Oxford
- New Turnitin Guides site
- Free Turnitin workshops 2024
- NewsGuard: check the veracity of online news services
- Resources to assist Turnitin instructors
- Turnitin free webinars
- Take a look at the Oxford Turnitin FAQs
- How can Turnitin be used to investigate the academic integrity of a piece of student writing?
- 2019 Turnitin User Summit
- Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 13 July 16:00-00:00
- Message from Turnitin about the recent takeover
- Sakai in UK HE
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- LTG Case Studies
- LTG Likes
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- OxTALENT
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Video tutorial guides for site managers
The WebLearn team employed a student intern over the summer to produce video screencast tutorials demonstrating the use of some of the most important tools in WebLearn. The 18 videos are now available on the WebLearn Guidance site listed as … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, Help, Home page, HTML WYSIWYG editor, Resources, Roles, Site management, Training
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Call for Judges — Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award
The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee is seeking distinguished individuals to serve as judges for the fourth annual competition for this international award. We are looking for judges who have a passion for teaching, and whose life-long work … Continue reading
A video explaining the Sir Louie project
This video of me at JISC’s Flexible Service Delivery seminar in Nottingham on 9th September will probably become a cult internet hit one day. In the meantime it should help to clarify what we are planning to do within the … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, Google Scholar, Library, New features, Reading lists, Resources
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WebLearn now available on a mobile phone
WebLearn is now accessible via OUCS’s Mobile Oxford service (m.ox). The (Tutorial) Sign-up Tool is the first of many tools that will offer a special interface optimised for use on a ‘smartphone’. Other tools including Polls, Surveys, Announcements and Resources … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Announcements, Mobile Oxford (m.ox), Mobile phone access, My Workspace, New features, Polls, Sign-up Tool, Survey, System notices
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A much better way of migrating content from Old WebLearn
We have recently introduced a much improved method of moving content out of Old WebLearn and in to New WebLearn. This method employs IMS Content Packages (IMS CP) as a transport medium. This has the advantage of preserving HTML descriptions … Continue reading
Posted in Migration, Sakai, WebLearn
Tagged Help, Migration from old WebLearn, New features, Resources, Training
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WebLearn has been upgraded
Two new versions of WebLearn have recently been released: 2.6-ox4.1 on Tuesday August 17th 2010 and 2.6-ox5.0 on Tuesday September 7th 2010 Improvements Introduction of an option to send an email to the student when quiz is complete (Tests tool) … Continue reading
Job Advert – Sakai Developer
OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES (OUCS) Title: Senior Programmer – Sakai Developer (Java) Salary: £36,715 -£43,840 (If no suitable applicant is forthcoming, an appointment on the scale £28,983 – £35646 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.) Note that … Continue reading
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Converting MS Word to HTML
Pasting text into WebLearn’s WYSIWYG HTML editor which has been copied from either Microsoft Word or Outlook is a hit and miss affair. Pasting directly (via the ‘Paste’ button) is not recommended. Pasting using the ‘Paste from Word’ button does … Continue reading
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Tagged Content creation, Free software, Help, Resources
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WebLearn courses next term
From Michaelmas term, we will be offering a new course ‘WebLearn: Surveys‘ which enables Oxford users to design and deliver online surveys at no charge. If you have materials in the old WebLearn system (Bodington), come and attend the course … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, Sakai, Turnitin, WebLearn
Tagged Help, Plagiarism, Site management, Survey, Training, WebLearn User Group
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Sakai Teaching and Learning Initiatives
This is taken from the latest Sakai newsletter: Following work at the 2010 Sakai Conference in Denver, the Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L) group has identified priority initiatives for the upcoming year. During the year leading up to the 2011 … Continue reading