Make narrated videos with Jing

Audio and video support to enhance the essay feedback experience for international students (an approach pioneered by Russell Stannard of the University of Warwick) will shortly be provided for students on the Department for Continuing Education’s Pre-Master’s courses. To support … Continue reading

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WebLearn courses and course books

In the early days of ‘New WebLearn’, we were in the fortunate position to be able to sponsor the cost of all WebLearn courses, including the course books. Now that the service is no longer new, we are unable to … Continue reading

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WebLearn upgraded to Version 2.8-ox7 on 13 August 2013

New WebLearn was upgraded on 13th August 2013 to version 2.8-ox7. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. Improvements / Bug Fixes 2 new columns have been added to Assignments Marking CSV … Continue reading

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WebLearn unavailable on Tuesday 13 August 2013 7-9am

It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox7 on Tuesday 13 August 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause.

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WebLearn upgraded to version 2.8-ox6

New WebLearn was upgraded on 16th July 2013 to version 2.8-ox6. For more detailed information and other minor changes, please looked at the detailed release notes. Improvements All sites now use CK Edit (except Surveys Beta tool) – this is … Continue reading

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Four Indispensable Tips

I thought I would post these Four Top Tips which were presented to the recent WebLearn User Group. Site redirects It is now possible to redirect users to a new site should they use an old URL. As an example, … Continue reading

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Change of date: WebLearn unavailable on 16 July 2013 7-9am

In response to user requests, we have decided to delay the proposed upgrade by 1 week. We now plan to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox6 on Tuesday 16 July 2013 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. We … Continue reading

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The death and rebirth of Apereo OAE (aka Sakai OAE or Sakai 3)

Michael Feldstein has written an excellent article about the Apereo Open Academic Environment (OAE) – you may know this better as Sakai OAE or Sakai 3. (When the Sakai Foundation and JA SIG merged, they formed a new organisation called … Continue reading

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OXTALENT Awards: Use of WebLearn to support a Course or Programme of Study

Thanks to Liz Masterman for this article. Thomas Jellis, School of Geography and the Environment: The Copenhagen Fieldclass Dr Thomas Jellis is a lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment and a tutor at Hertford and St John’s … Continue reading

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Reminder about Copyright policy: WebLearn

WebLearn site maintainers are reminded that it is illegal to distribute or upload into WebLearn, any scanned or downloaded copies of copyrighted material (including books, journals and other publications, images, music and video) without obtaining permission/a licence to do so … Continue reading

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