Call for Entries: 2015 Teaching with Sakai (aka WebLearn) Innovation Award

Announcement from the TWISA Committee The Sakai Teaching and Learning community is seeking submissions for the 2015 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) competition. The award recognizes innovation and excellence in technology-supported teaching, academic collaboration, and student engagement. We look … Continue reading

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FAO: Local WebLearn Coordinators in your department, faculty or college

Are you new in the role of Local WebLearn Coordinator? Do you perhaps need a refresher about the do’s and don’ts of managing your unit’s WebLearn presence? Did you  know that you must never add external accounts to the Administration … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 18th November 2014 from 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.10-ox1.3 on Tuesday 18th November 2014 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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Customisable Branding of Sites

You can now customise the appearance of all your WebLearn sites, for example, your department, faculty or college can have a its own top banner on pages. (This is an enhancement of a previous post.) One or more of the … Continue reading

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Copyright seminar (and others)

The following lunchtime seminars may be of interest to WebLearn users: Engage: Understanding copyright in the digital age. Tue 04 Nov 12:30-13:30. Book: http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/ENAT WebLearn Bytes: Assignments. Mon 03 Nov 12:30-13:30. Book: http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TOVL Plagiarism: Interpreting originality reports using Turnitin. Wed … Continue reading

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WebLearn Upgraded to v2.10-ox1.2

WebLearn was upgraded between 30th September and 3rd October 2014 to version 2.10-ox1.2. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do so … Continue reading

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The new WebLearn Lessons tool enables a better user experience

WebLearn 10 has brought with it the brand new Lessons Tool. This tool allows one to set up a step-by-step learning exercise which students can be asked to work through in a structured manner. Consider this example: without leaving the … Continue reading

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How to move the Home Page text into Resources

If you want to move the text of your home page into the Resources tool then you can follow this ‘recipe’. (You may wish to do this if your home page contains JavaScript code or other page elements that are … Continue reading

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Major New WebLearn release: WebLearn 10

We are pleased to announce that WebLearn has undergone significant face-lift with a move to WebLearn 10 (2.10-ox1). The upgrade was affected on Tuesday 16th September 2014, we apologise for the disruption that the extended downtime must have caused. As … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 16 September 2014 from Midnight – Noon

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.10-ox1 on Tuesday 16 September 2014 from Midnight – Noon (note the extended outage). There will be no service during this period. This release will bring major changes in both WebLearn and … Continue reading

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