Accessing WebLearn via Mobile Oxford: Wed 16 Nov, 12:30-13:30 at OUCS

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Did you know that you can have students complete a quick quiz during a lecture using their mobile phones and instantly see and discuss the results? Did you know that students can use their mobile phones to receive course announcements, … Continue reading →

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Useful advice and free teaching and learning resources

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Jill Fresen has drawn my attention to this useful resource: The Staff area of Association for Learning Development in HE website contains lots of resources in various formats (including a fridge magnet about academic writing(!). It has good layout within … Continue reading →

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Xerte content authoring tool

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The University of Nottingham’s Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. Pat Lockley, worked in the Xerte team (who won the 2009 ALT Learning Technologists Team of … Continue reading →

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GLOMaker content authoring tool

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Adam Marshall

London Metropolitan University’s GLOMaker tool is a free open source tool which allows elearning developers and content authors to produce highly structured and media rich interactive learning materials. In May, Professor Tom Boyle from the Reusable Learning Objects CETL gave … Continue reading →

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When do new students get access to WebLearn?

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Adam Marshall

There has been a bit of interest in using WebLearn as a resource to help new students before their arrival in Oxford; I made a blog post about this entitled: Supporting students before they arrive with WebLearn. I thought it … Continue reading →

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WebLearn Announcements now available via Mobile Oxford

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The Mobile Oxford team have now added the Announcements tool to their WebLearn area. Clicking on the Announcements link in Mobile Oxford will collate all announcements from all sites where the user is a participant and display them in a … Continue reading →

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Transferring very large files

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Adam Marshall

In the past we have been asked about using WebLearn to transfer very large files to other users in a secure fashion.  We generally say that WebLearn not the most suitable vessel for this, however, there is now some good … Continue reading →

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IMS Basic LTI Outline

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Thanks to Matthew Buckett for this post. IMS Basic LTI Basic LTI allows external tools to be integrated into an exsiting application such as a VLE. These application can be hosted outside of the VLE and once Basic LTI integration … Continue reading →

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Launch of new OxFile service

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Adam Marshall

A note from OUCS Systems Development and Support We are pleased to announce that OxFile, the large file exchange service, is now available for general use: https://oxfile.ox.ac.uk/ OxFile is a web service that supports the exchange of large files with … Continue reading →

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OUCS lunchtime courses – this year’s make: schedule is now available

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Adam Marshall

Make: is a forum for sharing ideas about the creative use of technology in learning, teaching and research. We invite along speakers from different disciplines to inspire you with ideas for developments in your own areas of expertise. You will … Continue reading →

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