Minor WebLearn upgrade on 8 June 2010

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Adam Marshall

An upgrade was successfully completed on Tuesday the 8th of June 2010. The service was unavailable for a few minutes between 8 and 8.30am. Improvements included: The Restore facility in the Resources tool now works correctly. (Unfortunately any files deleted … Continue reading →

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The ‘Restore’ facility in Resources is currently not working.

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Adam Marshall

We have just discovered that it is not possible to recover any files deleted from the Resources Tool after 7am on 19th January 2010. Under normal circumstances, one is able to use the Resource Tool’s ‘Restore’ facility, however, a bug … Continue reading →

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A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading →

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Doing URL redirects using WebLearn

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Sometimes it is very useful to add a level of indirection to your URLs – this would allow you to publicise a single fixed URL but periodically change what it is pointing to (behind the scenes). This technique is called … Continue reading →

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Having problems pasting text into WebLearn from MS Word or Outlook?

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

If you are on a PC, there is a nice free utility called PureText, which removes formatting from text – it runs in the background and instead of pressing Control-V to paste, you press Windows-V if you want to strip … Continue reading →

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How do I find free images for use in WebLearn?

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Adam Marshall

I have recently been using Flickr to find photographs with a Creative Commons licence so that I can use them to liven up my Power Point presentations; however, there is no reason why they couldn’t be used to liven up … Continue reading →

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Automatically updating a site from a database with a script

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Adam Marshall

A colleague here in OUCS is using new WebLearn in a fairly novel way. They have a database (actually a subversion repository) full of HTML-based teaching material and fancied making it available in WebLearn (in addition to other places where … Continue reading →

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All WebLearn icons now stored within the system

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn uses a series of free icons known as the “Silk Icons”. All these icons are now accessible from within WebLearn from the following location. On occasions, it may be useful to display these images on a page, for example … Continue reading →

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Are your attachments failing to open?

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Attachments can be added to Announcements, Assignments and email messages. Some people have been confused as to why some site participants are unable to open such attachments so the WebLearn team has been investigating. In order for a user to … Continue reading →

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