WebLearn and Turnitin user groups for staff

Due to low attendance numbers, the termly face-to-face meetings of the WebLearn and Turnitin user groups will no longer be offered. A new VLE User Group (for staff WebLearn and Canvas users) is currently being planned and will meet face-to-face … Continue reading

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Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday Jan 5th 2019 from 16:00 – 00:00

Turnitin will be unavailable between 4pm and 12am on Saturday 5th January. All submissions made through WebLearn during this period will be queued and processed once the maintenance is complete. It will not be possible to create a new assignment … Continue reading

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Planned maintenance, Turnitin, TurnitinUK, iThenticate, WriteCheck and Integrations -Saturday November 5

We have just received this announcement from TurnItIn As a reminder, next Saturday November 5, the following services will be unavailable from 1pm – 6pm GMTdue to necessary scheduled maintenance: Turnitin (including mobile) TurnitinUK iThenticate WriteCheck Integrations This maintenance will … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgraded to Version 2.10-ox11 on 22 March 2016

WebLearn was upgraded  to version 2.10-ox11 on 22nd March 2016. If you would like more details then please contact the Service Desk. If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do so by contributing to the WebLearn User Voice feedback … Continue reading

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New TurnItIn URL

 Turnitin now has a new URL turnitinuk.com. the old URL will no longer work, however, all existing assignments are available via the new URL. This change took place on 1st January 2016. WebLearn has been updated to use this new URL … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Jan 2014 – Apr 2014

 Training and Guidance Trinity term’s programme of training has been announced:  http://wp.me/p1K8WQ-SZ Turnitin The TurnItIn Academic service suffered from poor performance throughout the whole of the last week of April; by the end of the week the problems appear to … Continue reading

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WebLearn and TurnItIn report Oct 2013 -Jan 2014

Turnitin iParadigms suffered a couple of outages of their TurnItIn Academic service during December which provoked outcry amongst  the UK user community. iParadigms have been very apologetic and have promised not to let this happen again; the Turnitin CEO will … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Apr 2013 – Oct 2013

WebLearn and Turnitin:  Apr 2013 – Oct 2013 The big news in this period has been the changes in behaviour of Firefox and Chrome in how they handle pages containing ‘mixed content’. Web browsers classify content as either ‘secure’ (the … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin: Jan 2013 – Apr 2013

WebLearn was moved to v2.8-ox5 at the start of April, the highlights are The OXCAP work within WebLearn has now finished, there a few loose ends to tidy up in Oxford Open Data which influence what data is sent to … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin Report: Oct 2012 – Jan 2013

Old WebLearn (aka Bodington) really is no more now: it was decommissioned on 18th September and finally turned off during the week of 14 January 2013. There were over 17,000 separate logins to (new) WebLearn on the first day of … Continue reading

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