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A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching
Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading
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Tagged Assignments, Chat, Email notification, Groups, Home page, Mailtool, News tool, Plagiarism, Resources, Roles, RSS, Site management, Site stats tool, Turnitin, Wiki
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Reading lists / Google Scholar problems
The “Import into WebLearn” link disappeared from the Google Scholar interface with WebLearn’s Reading List tool some time during last week (17-21 May 2010). According to Google, this problem was caused by a failure when Google’s crawler last tried to … Continue reading
Doing URL redirects using WebLearn
Sometimes it is very useful to add a level of indirection to your URLs – this would allow you to publicise a single fixed URL but periodically change what it is pointing to (behind the scenes). This technique is called … Continue reading
Conducting public surveys using WebLearn
WebLearn has a Beta version of a tool that can be used for conducting public surveys. At the start of the Long Vacation, a new ‘Survey’ option will appear in the list of tools available to a WebLearn site. As … Continue reading
Having problems pasting text into WebLearn from MS Word or Outlook?
If you are on a PC, there is a nice free utility called PureText, which removes formatting from text – it runs in the background and instead of pressing Control-V to paste, you press Windows-V if you want to strip … Continue reading
Copying within the Evaluations (Survey) Tool
Thanks to Jill for this. Test 1: Create NEW template. Create new survey based on that template. Edit a question in the template. There is NO CHANGE to that question in the existing survey – Good! Test 2: COPY a … Continue reading
How do I get rid of the little Forums & Calendar panels on the Home Page?
Many users complain that the Schedule and Messages/Forums panels do not look very good on the Home Page. There is no way to remove them but there is a fairly acceptable work-around. What you can do is: Copy the “home … Continue reading
All about Sakai
Michael Korcuska made this presentation about the Sakai Project when he visited Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia in 2007: http://polimedia.upv.es/visor/?id=7f1f319b-7bd5-0b43-8b81-8bb5660d70a5
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Change In Sakai Foundation’s Executive Director
Michael Korcuska is leaving the Sakai Foundation to take up a new post at LinkedIn. From a personal point of view this is a big shame – Michael has been a frequent visitor to Oxford and I will miss our … Continue reading
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Comments on: ‘Eduserv-funded study into the use of Microsoft SharePoint in UK Higher Education Institutions’ Report
From: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/SPfinal.pdf “Microsoft is promoting SharePoint as a VLE. ……… Despite not being frequently deployed as an institutional VLE, SharePoint is being used in teaching and learning, particularly for functions which are not easily fulfilled by the VLE, for example: … Continue reading →