H5P Improvements: LaTeX, Content Reuse and Copyright Handling

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Adam Marshall

Those wonderful people at H5P have added some new features the most impressive of which is the integration of LaTeX into all content types (eg, drag and drop, multiple choice etc.) If you want more information then you will find that … Continue reading →

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Introducing the new ‘Cabinet’ LTI tool

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

A new (external) tool called ‘Cabinet’ has been added to WebLearn. You can find it in the “Plugins” section of the “Manage Tools” page in “Site Info”. Integrating Object, Image and Text in Oxford Teaching Digital technologies are revolutionising our … Continue reading →

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Add Interactive Video Content to WebLearn

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Adam Marshall

Those wonderful people at H5P have made some improvements to their interactive video content type. (This allows one to embed a You Tube video in an HTML page or Lessons pages and overlay quizzes, pop-up text or other types of … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Upgraded to Version 11-ox11

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded on 19th June 2018 to version 11-ox11. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. The main focus for this release was ‘behind-the-scenes’ improvements required as part of the move to Canvas, however, there are some … Continue reading →

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Liven up your WebLearn pages!

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Adam Marshall

It is a little known fact that WebLearn now contains Twitter’s Bootstrap library. Bootstrap is world’s most popular front-end component library and can be used to make amazing-looking and fully responsive dynamic web pages. Bootstrap allows you to easily add the following … Continue reading →

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Using WebLearn to aid student induction

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Adam Marshall

Lettitia Derrington (Department for Continuing Education) received a project grant to develop a WebLearn feature that could be made available across the University to support the online induction of postgraduate students. http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2015/11/university-teaching-awards-2015/ Lettitia built an ‘Induction Lessons Tool’, made entirely with … Continue reading →

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System Improvements: WebLearn v11-ox6

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded on 20th June 2017 to version 11-ox6. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. Here is a list of some of the improvements: Single file upload limit is now 250MB (Resources, Assignments etc.) A link … Continue reading →

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18 May 2017 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Adam Marshall

Today (18/5/17) is the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). “The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.”  (http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/.)” To celebrate this, Matt Clare … Continue reading →

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Activity Browser: We have lift-off!

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Adam Marshall

We are excited to announce that the SHOAL project’s Activity Browser has been launched!  You can find Activity Browser here: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/activity-browser.   You can also access it from the left-hand menu of WebLearn’s Gateway home page, or from the Support page … Continue reading →

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Using LaTeX in WebLearn

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Adam Marshall

Mathematical (LaTeX) Notation is a special mark-up language designed to present mathematical notation in electronic documents. The upgrade to WebLearn 11 now means that LaTeX can be used to format equations as mathematical notation on most pages. Once LaTeX has been … Continue reading →

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