WebLearn Wiki
This wiki contains all sorts of useful information about new WebLearn, Oxford's centrally hosted Virtual Learning Environment. It covers the service and technical development, specifically based on Bodington and Sakai. Note As this is a working Wiki some of the information may be out of date or incorrect, please do not rely on what you find here; if you want a definitive answer or want to check facts then please email weblearn@oucs.ox.ac.uk
WebLearn - powered by Sakai
WebLearn: up at http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/ (access logs); staging server: http://staging.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/
- Development instances
TEST THIS ONE WL team Nightly build: http://cod.oucs.ox.ac.uk:40080/portal,
BSG Nightly build: http://cod.oucs.ox.ac.uk:50080/portal
Dynamic version (restarted after every commit): https://cod.oucs.ox.ac.uk:30080/portal;
Sysdev WL tasks: https://ikiwiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/wiki/wip/weblearn_2012_tasks/
Help and Guidance: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/info
Internal issue Tracker (JIRA) https://jira.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jira/ , Oxford Jira FAQ
OUCS RT system: | UsefulLinksForRT | UsingRT/StandardRTResponses |
GIT: https://git-repo.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ - GIT for Sakai at Oxford. Production properties file: https://svn.oucs.ox.ac.uk/projects/vle/deployment/debian/sakai/config/trunk/
https://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/pst PST website
WebLearnAlerts (Possible XSS attack), Statistics Direct interface ~buckett/logs/quota.csv (disc space usage)
Other resources
UK and Ireland Sakai Support Network (uKISSn) resources:, Tetra Wiki, CARET Jira, Camtools
Sakai project resources: Main Sakai Project Site, Jira, Confluence Wiki, Development Roadmap, QA3 running 2.9 (Dec 2011),Nightly2 Build, Nightly with contrib tools CamTools, my camtools (sakai 3.0), UX demo server 1 v2.x, UX demo server plus more experimental gubbins, content authoring , social networking v3.0, Seth Ifrican QA server, Nightly Build w/ Contrib Tools, Style Guide, Registry, Skin Manager, History, Interoperability Roadmap, 2 page overview, Documentation, Mail lists: sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org , pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org , sakai-user@collab.sakaiproject.org , openforum@collab.sakaiproject.org
Sakai 3 Demo server, Future Proofing sakai 2 tools
list of consultants with rates (restricted access)
mobile numbers (restricted)
New WebLearn Service
Communication channels (marketing ideas Quotes from satisfied 'customers') | Unique Selling Points
Relationship between WebLearn and Groupware | How Sakai relates to the groupware requirements
The Hierarchy (incl. Departmental home pages and Admin sites) Admin sites in Jira (Unit codes)
Bodington tools compared to Sakai tools, Comparison of tools across well-known VLEs
Communication Strategy | SakaiMarketing | Survey Tool Roll-out
Pilots
- reading lists
Development work
Reports https://sharepoint.nexus.ox.ac.uk/sites/OUCS/PSG/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx
janus project (restricted)
Guidance site redesign (https://svn.oucs.ox.ac.uk/projects/vle/guidance/)
Nexus WebLearn integration (groupware calendar interoperability, SharePoint integration, [ExternalUserIntegration external user integration])
- Evaluations
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/System+Settings,
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/1.3.x+QA+Effort,
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/1.3.0+QA+Team
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/Functionality+to+be+developed - missing functionality
Proposed Development Projects
Addition Verification (is that the right terminology?!)
Stalled / Abandoned Projects
Completed Development Work
Sir Louie Project (submitted to JISC 05/10)
Documentation
Managing WebLearn
AdminSites - we attempt to devolve administration to local co-ordinators. This page is the start point for describing this and the workflow we follow in order to enable this.
Course Templates - ideas in development for course site initial states, chosen on site setup
CaseStudyNotes - for analysis of specific teaching and learning needs and development of solutions
Related Services
Turnitin This provides a single point of contact for documenting issues with the Turnitin plagiarism / originality report detection service; both for being used in conjunction with WebLearn and without.
Epigeum Courses The Epigeum courses currently being run in Moodle are being converted to WebLearn
Related Web Sites
Representation of WebLearn on other sites in the web.
WebLearnOnWebTwoOh - this page describes actual (and potential) presences of WebLearn on web-sites that people would recognise as part of the 'Web 2.0' world.
WebLearnFacebookPage - this page describes representing WebLearn as a 'fan' page on Facebook.
Migration Documents
Content Migration Links to pages covering project plan, requirements gathering, analysis of types of content, tools for migration, etc.
Adam's MigrationDocumentation page
Misc
FiveYearPlan2012 5 year plan 2011-2016 (Possible WebLearn projects) (Sakai-related projects, 5 year plan 2010-2015)
Groups Store Scenarios (old: Groups use cases related: CONEXUS: Abandoned OUCS/Cambs Groups Service JISC bid)
survey summary (restricted access)
Assessment Tools - encompassing tools intended for evaluation as well as surveys / feedback, etc.
Hosting Requirements for sysdev
Reasons for choosing Sakai (restricted access)
[StoringLargeFiles:Issue of hosting large files (e.g. Video or audio files) in WebLearn ]
Archived pages
A comparison of Bodington and Sakai Tools and Services - JingJing's work
Other Information
Bodington - WebLearn (G)old
(Mostly out of date.)
TasksInRT Links to saved searches in RT
FeaturesInNewVersions: Reverse history of changes in each release version
ASPIRE PDP System
ASPIRE is based on the LUSID open source software. All notes made on this wiki only relate to the implementation at Oxford.