WebLearn User Group – 2-4pm, Monday 7 July 2014

The next WebLearn User Group meeting is to be held on  Monday 7 July 2014 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd. It will of course be followed by cream tea. Booking is required (for catering purposes) … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 24 June 2014 from 7-9am

In order to deploy some important system updates, WebLearn will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes between 0700-0900 on Tuesday 24th June. Unfortunately, this will mean that there will be no service during this period. We apologise for any … Continue reading

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Announcing the start of WeRP – The “WebLearn Resilience Project”

IT Services has just launched a brand new project aimed at improving the resilience of WebLearn. The project which started in June 2014 and will run for 9 months aims to improve the infrastructure that supports the WebLearn architecture. WebLearn … Continue reading

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Changes to copyright law for disabled learners

Come along to the WebLearn User Group meeting at IT Services on 7 July 2014 at 14:00 to learn more about ‘Writing accessible web pages’ (Booking is required at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TOVD). The following news release is from Jisc: see http://jisc.msgfocus.com/q/112eRgM9oyVzKqK4cdb/wv “Disabled … Continue reading

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Kind words about WebLearn from Continuting Education Students

A number of these students report how helpful and effective the ‘on-line platform(s)’ are that they use as part of their Sustainable Urban Development M.Sc. course. One of these platforms is, of course, WebLearn which is used extensively by the Department of … Continue reading

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List of WebLearn Coordinators

As previously proposed, we have now switched to using an automatically generated list of WebLearn coordinators. To do this we have visited each and every administration site and assigned the ‘coordinator’ role to the people that we believe to be … Continue reading

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FAO: Local WebLearn Coordinators in your department, faculty or college

Are you new in the role of Local WebLearn Coordinator? Do you perhaps need a refresher about the do’s and don’ts of managing your unit’s WebLearn presence? Did you  know that you must never add external accounts to the Administration … Continue reading

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WebLearn one-to-one consultation

WebLearn offers a space (‘site’) in your departmental or college area, which provides an easy way to author web pages, upload and share materials, and collaborate and communicate with students, colleagues, experts, or external users. The WebLearn team in Academic IT … Continue reading

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WebLearn Was Upgraded To Version 2.8-ox10.1 On 13 May 2014

WebLearn was upgraded on Tuesday 13th May 2014 to version 2.8-ox10.1. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do so by contributing … Continue reading

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Large WebLearn Tools Icons (aka ‘Large Silk Icons’ or ‘Large Fam Fam Fam Icons’) are now available

Have you ever wanted to use a WebLearn tool icon in a document or web page and been dismayed that, at a size of 16px, it is too small and therefore not suitable for use? If so then you may … Continue reading

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