WebLearn WLUG Hilary 2014

Dr Adam Marshall WebLearn Team

IT Services

weblearn.ox.ac.uk

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What’s New?

Since Xmas

• New version of Sign-Up– Calendar files work for OWA / Gmail– Better performance

• Resources available to “All Oxford Users”• New version of Tests– Question pools can be copied– UI improvements

• Basic LTI works with non logged-in users• Short URLs updated during copy

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Proposals

Proposal 1: Admin Site Roles

• Create new role in Administration site ‘Coordinator’

• Use this to generate WebLearn coordinators• Publish list on website

Proposal 2: Resources

• Force HTML pages to be rendered in ‘standards mode’ (instead of ‘quirks mode’)– Quirks mode is for ‘old’ browsers, Netscape 4– All other pages in WebLearn are in standards

mode– ‘Home grown’ CSS may need changed

Proposal 3: Resources

• Prevent removal of ‘Read’ access in Resources– Attachments become unreadable– Assignments submission misbehaves– HTML pages become inaccessible

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User Voice• URL: weblearn.uservoice.com• Or on front page of WebLearn• Feature requests• Vote on existing requests• Will cover at User Group Meetings

Event

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Apereo OAE Seminar

• April 3rd at 12.30 in ISIS• Cambridge are major players• Nicholaas Matthijs (CARET) is speaker• ResearchResearch involved• Similar to Said business school’s GOTO

platform

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Happy 10th Birthday Sakai

WebLearn 10 – MT2014

• New responsive skin • Lessons tool: week-by-week learning • Pre-configured LTI tool (LTI 2.0)• WYSIWYG HTML editor: supports equations ….• …. and audio recording ….. and word count• Portal Chat: Start a chat conversation• Resources: drag and drop upload• Assignments: peer review & group submission

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Mobile Initiative

Mobile Improvements

• Mobile Interface– Responsive skin– New Mobile Oxford App– Individual apps• Poll• Maybe ‘Weekly reading’, cf Blavatnik App• Others?

• We want your input

That’s All Folks!

Questions?