Old WebLearn became read-only on 27th<\/sup> September: \u2018Floor Managers\u2019 still retain create permissions but all other users have had such privileges removed.<\/p>\n We had hoped to move to Sakai 2.8 in October but it was not possible to do this in time.<\/p>\n The revamped Guidance Site is just about ready to go live. The \u201cUsing technology tools\u201d course ran last term but had poor attendance.<\/p>\n Old WebLearn usage is declining rapidly; most departments and colleges have now moved to new WebLearn. Usage of new WebLearn is increasing.<\/p>\n Figure 1: Use of old WebLearn<\/p><\/div>\n Figure 2: Pages Requests in Week 1 of Trinity Term (old + new WebLearn)<\/p><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The Student Enrolment System II project started in February. This project builds upon the very successful initial phase and adds new features and for both students and administrators. It will finish at Christmas.<\/p>\n The OXAM Migration project runs from October to December, we will replicate and improve upon the incumbent OXAM service and deploy within WebLearn.<\/p>\n The Nexus-WebLearn integration project has made slow progress, next on the hit list is insertion of (Tutorial) sign-up events in personal calendars.<\/p>\n The WebLearn contribution to the Janus project has now finished: (two factor authentication in WebLearn) . It is now possible to use SAML to protect a WebLearn site with an extra \u201cpassword\u201d which is sent as an SMS. Work has been undertaken to ensure that there are no \u201cback doors\u201d into such a site, eg, webDAV access has been disabled.<\/p>\n The Blavatnik School of Government is expected to fund development work as part of their project to prove their students with an iPad App interface to their learning material.<\/p>\n The OxCAP Phase I project started in September and will run for 3 months \u2013 during this phase we will develop an implementation plan to be submitted for funding under phase II. This is a JISC funded initiative to expose data (as a public XML feed) about graduate training courses at Oxford. The implementation plan will also address local needs: we will bid to develop a new WebLearn tool\u00a0 which will allow a search of all graduate skills training courses at Oxford to be performed; we will also develop a JavaScript library to allow basic searching on institutional websites. This project offers a solution to a problem that students (and staff) have been demanding for a while now; this project has the explicit backing of the PVC for Education and the Registrar.<\/p>\n No further work has been carried out on integrating with the forthcoming Oak Groups Store service.<\/p>\n A new member of staff, Roger Pearson, will start work in the WebLearn team on Nov 1st<\/sup>. he will be working on the \u201cassessment and feedback\u201d project known as SIPA, he will be reviewing and developing our support of Turnitin, investigating GradeMark and PeerMark (which will also be piloted), and recommending improvements to the WebLearn Assignments tool.<\/p>\n We should soon start advertising for a new WebLearn developer. This person will also work on the SIPA project but will also do general WebLearn development work.<\/p>\n Adam Marshall attended and gave multiple presentations at the Sakai Conference in LA in June. Fawei Geng, Marc Savitsky and Adam Marshall attended and presented at the EuroSakai Conference in Amsterdam. Next year\u2019s EuroSakai may be in Oxford and will be held in Feb 2012.<\/p>\n Jill Fresen attended and presented at the UAS conference.]Adam Marshall presented at the ICTF conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Period: May 2011- Oct 2011 Software New WebLearn was upgraded for times between May and Oct 2011 \u2013 it now stands at v2.6-0x9.1. For more detailed information please looked at the relevant blog posts: http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2011\/07\/weblearn-upgraded-to-2-6-ox8\/ http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2011\/08\/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox8-1-on-22-august-2011\/ http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2011\/10\/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-on-27-september-2011\/ http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2011\/10\/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-1-on-18-october-2011\/ Old WebLearn … Continue reading Improvements & Bug Fixes<\/h3>\n
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