Are your attachments failing to open?

Attachments can be added to Announcements, Assignments and email messages. Some people have been confused as to why some site participants are unable to open such attachments so the WebLearn team has been investigating. In order for a user to … Continue reading

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Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai

This article by Josh Baron outlines the annual Sakai T&L awards. The article details this year’s winners and gives of examples of the kind of innovation that the courses offer. It’s well worth a quick read, see: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/10/14/Innovating-Teaching-and-Learning-with-Sakai.aspx

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Subscribing to external calendars in WebLearn

There is an external calendar subscription feature in WebLearn, but, unfortunately, it still has some limitations: • doesn’t support full day events; • doesn’t support events not defined with <event>; • doesn’t support re-occurring events; • doesn’t support events without … Continue reading

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How to display a web page displaying ‘foreign characters’ in WebLearn

Files containing non-standard characters must be encoded using UTF-8; ISO-8859 encoded files cannot be used. It is possible to convert between the formats using a program such as ‘iconv’.

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Sakai and instructional practices

discussing, identifying and documenting types of instructional practices

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