Best practice in designing WebLearn sites and pages

The WISE project One of the outputs of the recent WebLearn Improved Student Experience (WISE) project is a WebLearn site offering advice and guidance on various aspects to consider in building WebLearn sites and pages. The WebLearn Best Practice site … Continue reading

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Wrapping up the WISE project

The WISE project formally ended on 30th November. In this post we reflect on the extent to which we have achieved our goal of effecting a step-change in our service to the staff and students who rely on WebLearn in … Continue reading

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WISE working in WebLearn

The WebLearn Improved Student Experience (WISE) project is working with departments to fast-track the design (or re-design) of WebLearn structures, sites, content and learning materials. The aim of the project is to deliver an enhanced and consistent student learning experience, … Continue reading

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Catching up with WebLearn

Members of WISE pilot groups met up in December 2015 at a WISE Champions community event at IT Services. It was an opportunity for participants in the WISE project to  share ideas and see examples of newly designed WebLearn sites. The … Continue reading

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Do you use peer assessment?

The WebLearn team have released a new step-by-step guide to help staff who wish to use the “Peer assessment” option in the Assignments tool. Benefits Students can comment on and mark each others’ work. Tutors can review the comments and revise … Continue reading

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WISE tips for engaging academics and students with the VLE

Since Spring 2015 the WISE project has been working with 19 departments, faculties and doctoral training centres to develop and improve their WebLearn presence. In these collaborations we’ve been facing a perennial problem for learning technologists: namely, how to achieve … Continue reading

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WISE improvements Phase 1

As well as collaborating with Faculties to launch new WebLearn sites, the WISE team have been working with our technical developers to improve the WebLearn design and interface, based on feedback from staff and students. We have concentrated our efforts … Continue reading

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Presenting WISE

The WISE team have given presentations at the recent Sakai 2015 virtual conference. Sakai is the open source software which powers WebLearn. Amongst the presentations by colleagues were: 1) On the Journey: developing templates Steve Burholt and Xavier Laurent show how … Continue reading

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WISE designs

Departments and faculties across the University have been busy launching their revamped WebLearn sites. The screenshots below show the variety of front page designs. For more information including larger screenshots, see the project website.

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Update on the WISE project

(text taken from ‘WISE Project: Update to Education IT Board’, written by Dr Liz Masterman, 22 October 2015) Project aims The WISE project aims to: Increase the uptake and optimise the use of WebLearn across the University to support and … Continue reading

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