Adding ‘awesome’ icons to web page in WebLearn

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Adam Marshall

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, most pages in WebLearn 11 use a new icon set: Font Awesome icons. You may well recognise these icons from other websites or phone ‘Apps’. Unlike the previous (‘Silk’) icons these are not images, they … Continue reading →

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Learning Activities to Promote Student Collaboration

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Adam Marshall

Guest post by Lucy Tallents & Jocelyne Hughes The SHOAL portal will go live in March, following a beta-testing phase in February (to participate in the trial, email shoal@maillist.ox.ac.uk).  As the release date approaches, we will blog about specific learning … Continue reading →

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6 Tips For Good Web Design

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Adam Marshall

We found a very interesting resource developed by usability guru Jakob Nielson which gives some points about good design. Here’s a condensed summary: People cannot use information they are unable to find: try to situate material in the most obvious place – try … Continue reading →

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Pasting from MS Word into WebLearn

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Adam Marshall

We often get complaints about ugly and poorly formatted text in WebLearn which appears as a result of cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word. (All advice in this blog also applies to MS Outlook as it uses the same text … Continue reading →

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Writing for the Web video playlist

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Adam Marshall

Many of you know that all Oxford University members have unlimited access to lynda.com, an on-line library of high-quality instructional videos on the latest software tools and skills.  To signup go to http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/lynda With more than 3,700 courses taught by … Continue reading →

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Introducing Replay – Lecture Capture

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Adam Marshall

Educational Media Services is running a pilot project, called Replay, using Panopto lecture capture software to record lectures as a revision aid for Oxford students. Panopto is easy to use and unobtrusive. It captures audio and slides, automatically synchronises them, … Continue reading →

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Creating (WebLearn) content using Xerte: Webinar 8 April @ 17:00

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Adam Marshall

Xerte is an (ALT-C) award winning suite of browser-based tools developed by Nottingham University that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive and accessible learning materials quickly and easily. Xerte is a new project to Apereo, currently working … Continue reading →

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Proposal: deliver all user created web pages in ‘standards mode’

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Adam Marshall

In our Easter upgrade, we propose to change the default behaviour of WebLearn and deliver all HTML pages which have been authored within WebLearn and are stored in Resources in ‘standards mode’ rather than ‘quirks mode’ as they currently are. … Continue reading →

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Five great free screen capture tools

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Adam Marshall

Thanks to Fawei Geng for this post. Screen capture software can be used to: deliver online lectures that include annotations create demo videos for any computer programs record a video explaining a technical solution  to a problem frequently asked by … Continue reading →

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Google Scholar removes ‘Import into WebLearn’ functionality

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Adam Marshall

We knew it was going to happen, but we didn’t know when! As hinted at in a previous blog post about Google Scholar, Google have finally removed the ‘Import into WebLearn’ link from their scholarly search results page. This facility … Continue reading →

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