{"id":4031,"date":"2015-06-10T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2015-06-10T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:51:35","slug":"sneak-preview-of-weblearn-sakai-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2015\/06\/sneak-preview-of-weblearn-sakai-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Preview of WebLearn (Sakai) 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_665\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2010\/06\/sakaiger-150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-665 \" alt=\"Sakaiger\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2010\/06\/sakaiger-150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sakaiger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Members of the WebLearn team (and TWISA winner Lucy Tallents) have just returned from the annual Apereo conference held in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the delicious crab cakes, there were numerous other benefits not least being able to help define the shape of the forthcoming Sakai 11 release (expected around the turn of the New Year). We hope to start moving to WebLearn 11 as soon as the official release is made.<\/p>\n<p>For the very first time, Oxford has contributed significant functionality to a single release of the software; institutions around the globe will now benefit from work undertaken in response to requests from our users.<\/p>\n<p>What probably interests Oxford staff and students the most are new features that aren&#8217;t already in use at Oxford so I&#8217;ll describe a handful of the most interesting new features.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Responsive (Morpheus) Portal &#8211; the biggest redesign of the system since Sakai was launched, offers a fantastic user interface on desktop, tablet and mobile phone (notice the collapsible menu)<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4039 alignright\" alt=\"home-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-full.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-full.jpg 772w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-full-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4037 alignright\" alt=\"home-phone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-phone.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-phone.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/home-phone-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a> (some early screen-shots are included here)<\/li>\n<li>Public Announcement System tool &#8211; allows important messages to be broadcast to users<\/li>\n<li>Markbook (Gradebook) enhancements &#8211; provide easier and faster &#8216;speed&#8217; marking capabilities via spreadsheet entry, to simplify and consolidate the grade import\/export process, and to improve the overall user experience of the tool.<\/li>\n<li>Dashboard &#8211; gives users an overview of activity and events in My Workspace, supplements the synoptic tools<\/li>\n<li>MathJAX support &#8211; (mathematical notation \/ LaTeX) in the WYSIWYG HTML editor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/baltimore-crab-cakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4034 alignleft\" alt=\"Photo credit: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/39908901@N06\/8362334111\/\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/baltimore-crab-cakes.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/baltimore-crab-cakes.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2015\/06\/baltimore-crab-cakes-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.jasig.org\/download\/attachments\/52957613\/Developing_a_dashboard_for_Sakai_CLE.pdf\">Morpheus (Mobile Optimized Responsive Portal for Higher Education Using Sass) Portal <\/a>(doesnt work in Firefox for me)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/GBKIMPRV\/Presentations\">Gradebook enhancement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.jasig.org\/download\/attachments\/52957613\/Developing_a_dashboard_for_Sakai_CLE.pdf\">Dashboard presentation to 2012 Sakai conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathjax.org\/\">MathJax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=KCGkJmtGQDw\">Lucy Tallents collects TWSIA award<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/recipes\/pride-of-baltimore-crab-cakes\">Balitmore crab cakes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the WebLearn team (and TWISA winner Lucy Tallents) have just returned from the annual Apereo conference held in Baltimore. Aside from the delicious crab cakes, there were numerous other benefits not least being able to help define the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2015\/06\/sneak-preview-of-weblearn-sakai-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,105],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sakai","category-weblearn","tag-new-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}