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- Using WebLearn for Marking Inspera-Delivered Exams
- An Improved Method of Linking Directly to a WebLearn Assignment
- Linking Directly to an Individual Assignment
- JISC report: Everything you need to know about the new accessibility regulations
- How to make an accessible PDF
- WebLearn and Turnitin user groups for staff
- Office For Students report: “Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students?”
- Exporting Web Links from WebLearn (Resources)
- Adobe Products and accessibility
- Did you know that Sakai has a racing car?
- WebLearn and Turnitin courses: Trinity term 2019
- WebLearn User Group: Tues 12 March 14:00-16:00
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- WebLearn and Turnitin Courses and User Group meetings: Hilary Term 2019
- Free interactive webinar series on Web Accessibility
- Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday Jan 5th 2019 from 16:00 – 00:00
- Easy Access to Your Own Personal Replay / Panopto Folder
- H5P Improvements: LaTeX, Content Reuse and Copyright Handling
- Introducing the new ‘Cabinet’ LTI tool
- WebLearn and Turnitin Courses and User Group meetings: Michaelmas term 2018
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How to compress large video files without losing quality using Handbrake
Large video files are slow to upload and download. One of the most popular tools that can significantly shrink the file size without losing quality is Handbrake. It is popular due to three reasons: It can convert video from nearly … Continue reading
How to display public tweets in a WebLearn page
If you used Twitter’s feed to display public tweets in WebLearn, you may notice that it has stopped working. This is not caused by WebLearn but by a change in Twitter which no longer supports RSS feeds. This blog post … Continue reading
WebLearn video
If you’ve seen the set of 6 WebLearn postcards and don’t know how to fit them together then fear not, we have made a video to show how it is done. (If the video doesn’t display then visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1_1vhcheg ) … Continue reading
Mobile Oxford vs. AppGrad WebLearn ‘App’ – one clear winner!
Mobile Oxford provides the only fully supported WebLearn mobile application. This provides easy-access to a handful of the most popular areas of WebLearn, it also restricts the ability to remove material which is invaluable should the mobile device be lost … Continue reading
Posted in Web, WebLearn
Tagged For students, Mobile Oxford (m.ox), Mobile phone access, Security
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User Voice to suggest WebLearn system improvements
A new feature of the Welcome page is the ability for staff and students to submit a suggestion for WebLearn system improvements (under ‘Contact and feedback’). To use this feature, go to the WebLearn Welcome page https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk and click on … Continue reading
New WebLearn Welcome page goes live
Go to https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk to view the new WebLearn Welcome page. The WebLearn team has responded to recommendations from last year’s WebLearn Student Experience Project and incorporated features that students asked for. These include a clear section on ‘Getting started’; separation … Continue reading
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WebLearn 2.8-ox7.1 Released: Many Fixes for Firefox 23 Blocked Content Included
WebLearn was upgraded on 12th September 2013 to version 2.8-ox7.1. This was an emergency release which added functionality to WebLearn so that it rewrites pages in order to display content and links that would otherwise be blocked by Firefox 23 … Continue reading
Posted in Sakai, Student Experience, Web, WebLearn
Tagged Home page, Researcher Training Tool (formerly SES), Resources, Security, System notices, Web Content
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WebLearn unavailable on THURSDAY 12 September 2013 from 7-9am
It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox7.1 on Thursday 12th September 2013 from 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. This emergency upgrade will add functionality to WebLearn so that it rewrites pages in order to … Continue reading
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New WebLearn welcome page
We are building a new Welcome page which will appear at https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk in time for the new academic year. Feedback from students last year in the WebLearn Student Experience project indicated that students ignore the current front page, since it … Continue reading
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Firefox now blocks non-secure content from WebLearn: WebLearn pages may need to be edited
A recent change to Firefox v23 browser behaviour may have a significant impact on WebLearn users. Firefox v23 will now block Mixed Active Content by default. This makes it more secure. It will not display non-secure (http) content within the … Continue reading