Pandemic Planning – how WebLearn can help you.

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

New WebLearn offers many facilities which will be invaluable to Departments should parts of the University have to close due to a ‘Swine flu’ pandemic. Read more about how WebLearn can help with Pandemic Planning on the OUCS website.

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‘Writing for the Web’ course

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

OUCS are offering a course entitled “Writing for the Web” on December 1st. The course covers: devising a strategy for your sites; understanding how people read on-line; structuring information; managing your material; editing and proofreading and creating reusable information. See: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TWWN

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WebLearn presentation at UAS conference

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

There will be a WebLearn presentation at the UAS Conference in the Exam School from 13.30-14.15 on Tuesday 22 September 2009. An overview of WebLearn will be followed by a close look at the (tutorial) sign-up tool, electronic essay submission (with plagiarism detection), the construction of reading lists by searching OLIS catalogues and support for students before they arrive in Oxford. Registration is essential. See: http://www.ox.ac.uk/uas_conference/

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Courses for staff: Fundamentals – 21 Sept (pm) and 2 Oct (am)

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Need help in getting started with the new WebLearn service? If so, then book your place on the new WebLearn Fundamentals course offered by OUCS. See: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TOVB

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Courses for staff: Migrating your content – 24 Sept (pm) and 27 Oct (pm)

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Need help in moving material from Old WebLearn into the new system? If so, then book your place on the new “Migrating Your Content” course offered by OUCS. See: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TOVC

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2009/10 usernames and groups now available

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

All ‘course groups’ for the upcoming academic year are now available in both new and old WebLearn.

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Sakai and instructional practices

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Adam Marshall

From Sakai newsletter, September 10, 2009

New Sakai Initiative Focused on “Instructional Visioning”

Following the 10th International Sakai Conference in Boston this past July, a diverse set of community members representing UX, Teaching and Learning, Portfolio, and others have been working to organize a new effort focused on the need to find new ways for our community to discuss, identify and document the types of instructional practices that Sakai needs to support now and into the near as well as distant future. In order to begin work on this new effort, the weekly Sakai Teaching and Learning phone conference is being rescheduled as well as refocused on this issue.

Any and all members of the Sakai Community are welcome to participate in this new effort.  Our first phone conference is being scheduled for the week of September 14th.  If you are interested in participating please go to our Doodle site at http://www.doodle.com/fv6feshva2wybxfs to input times when you would be available. A final time will be selected and posted, along with call-in information, sometime next week to the Sakai Teaching and Learning and Using Sakai mailing lists.  See the www.sakaiproject.org for details on subscribing to these lists.

If you have questions, comments of suggestions please email Josh Baron at Josh.Baron@marist.edu.

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