Call for Entries: Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards (ATLAS) 2017

The Apereo Teaching and Learning community is seeking submissions for the annual Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards competition. The award recognises innovation and excellence in the use of digital technologies to enhance teaching, academic collaboration, and student engagement and learning. … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin courses: Hilary term 2017

IT Services offers a variety of taught courses to support the use of WebLearn and the plagiarism awareness software Turnitin. Course books for the formal courses (3-hour sessions) can be downloaded for self study. Places are limited and bookings are required. … Continue reading

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WebLearn Unavailable 6th Jan 00:00 – 00:15

In order to restore full dual-site resilience following Tuesday’s outage of the Shared Data Centre, WebLearn will be unavailable for about 15 minutes at midnight tonight (Jan 6th from 00:00 until 00:15). We apologise for the short notice and any … Continue reading

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SHOAL promotes discovery and connections

Discoverability and connectivity are core to the SHOAL project’s aims. Digital learning activities will be discoverable through the new SHOAL portal currently being developed by Matthew Buckett and Adam Marshall within Weblearn.  Resources will be tagged with Learning Object Metadata … Continue reading

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WebLearn 11 video: benefits and new features for students

‘WebLearn: A short guide for students’: the second in the set of three videos showcasing enhancements and features in the new version of WebLearn is now available. This video shows features useful for students, such as the new mobile-friendly design of … Continue reading

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Wrapping up the WISE project

The WISE project formally ended on 30th November. In this post we reflect on the extent to which we have achieved our goal of effecting a step-change in our service to the staff and students who rely on WebLearn in … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group 6 Dec 2016, 14:00

Join us at the next meeting of the WebLearn User Group to share ideas and practices: Date: Tuesday 6 December 2016 Time: 14:00 – 16:00 followed by tea and cake Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road Please book to secure … Continue reading

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WebLearn v11-ox3 released on 29 November 2016

WebLearn was been upgraded to Version 11-ox3 on the morning on Tuesday 29th November, we apologise for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. Improvements Images, iframe, videos and the like should now auto resize on a mobile The “Tools & Subsites” … Continue reading

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The Digital Education Strategy and SHOAL

Guest post by Dr Lucy Tallents We are keen to make SHOAL relevant to the university’s new Digital Education Strategy, and the ongoing consultation on the DES in divisions and departments.  We hope that the SHOAL portal will support staff … Continue reading

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New series of videos highlights key enhancements in WebLearn 11

Following the successful upgrade to WebLearn 11 during September 2016, the Technology-Enhanced Learning team has been working with Education Media Services to produce a series of videos to promote WebLearn and inform users of the recent enhancements. The first video … Continue reading

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