WebLearn has been upgraded

Two new versions of WebLearn have recently been released: 2.6-ox4.1 on Tuesday August 17th 2010 and 2.6-ox5.0 on Tuesday September 7th 2010 Improvements Introduction of an option to send an email to the student when quiz is complete (Tests tool) … Continue reading

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Converting MS Word to HTML

Pasting text into WebLearn’s WYSIWYG HTML editor which has been copied from either Microsoft Word or Outlook is a hit and miss affair. Pasting directly (via the ‘Paste’ button) is not recommended. Pasting using the ‘Paste from Word’ button does … Continue reading

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Proposed new user interface for the Reading List tool

The Sir Louie project will integrate the Bodleian Libraries’ SOLO search interface with the Reading List tool; this tool is part of the Resources tool. We have made mock-ups of how we think the integration will look. 1 Create the … Continue reading

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New Version of WebLearn Released (v2.6-ox4.0)

Apologies for the delay in this announcement! New WebLearn was upgraded on 20th July 2010,  to 2.6-ox4.0 New Facilities – The Highlights Users can now become members of ‘Joinable’ sites by simply visiting the site – previously one had to … Continue reading

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Reading lists are set to improve

The Sir Louie Project Sir Louie – System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment. This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University’s … Continue reading

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Develop ‘Learning Objects’ for free with GLO Maker

GLO Maker is an authoring tool to design and develop learning objects (called ‘GLOs’). GLO Maker is a powerful and user friendly tool to create new learning objects, or adapt and repurpose existing learning objects. An author can prepare images, … Continue reading

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Content authoring tools

Recent discussion on the Sakai mailing lists has highlighted three interesting free content creation systems http://www.udutu.com/ http://exelearning.org/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ Here’s what their websites say: “MyUdutu™ is a FREE web-based tool which provides a user friendly platform to create highly interactive elearning … Continue reading

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WLUG: Copyright and WebLearn

The original article has been removed and has been replaced by the standard copyright notice for display beside public photocopiers and scanners. This may be useful as well: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/copy/copyright Photocopying and scanning under the CLA Higher Education Licence The University … Continue reading

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Restore facility fixed

I failed to blog this at the time. The ‘Restore’ facility in Resources was fixed on 8 June 2010. All files deleted after 9am on that date will be recoverable for a period of 90 days.

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Updated version of the WYSIWYG HTML editor guide now available

New sections have been added adding a table, creating an index, and inserting an image. In addition many screen-shots have been improved and the document has been made more accessible. See: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/HTMLeditor8.pdf

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