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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 Note As this is a working Wiki some of the information may be out of date or incorrect, please do not rely on what you find here; if you want a definitive answer or want to check facts then please email weblearn@oucs.ox.ac.uk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/

• @oxfordweblearn - WebLearnTwitter

• 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)

• registration data sets

• UK HE VLEs

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

• Ideas for site templates

• List Of Tool

• Communication Strategy | SakaiMarketing | Survey Tool Roll-out

• What statistics should be collected?

• All about training

• Upgrade procedure

Pilots

• MoxPollsTool

• OxamTool

• reading lists

Development work

Reports https://sharepoint.nexus.ox.ac.uk/sites/OUCS/PSG/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

• SES tool

• Blavatnik

• JISC XCRI project - OxCAP

• OXAM Migration

• janus project (restricted)

• Guidance site redesign (https://svn.oucs.ox.ac.uk/projects/vle/guidance/)

  • marketing of videos

• Groups Store Integration Plan, Stsdev Groups store blurb

• Nexus WebLearn integration (groupware calendar interoperability, SharePoint integration, [ExternalUserIntegration external user integration])

• Entity Broker / Mobile Oxford

• 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

  • http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/Adopters

  • http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/XxUhB

  • https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/Functionality+to+be+developed - missing functionality

  • http://etherpad.ctools.org/evalsys-20110203

  • http://qa5-us.sakaiproject.org/portal

Proposed Development Projects

• Ideas about site customisation

• Improved reading lists in WL / Library integration

• StoringLargeFiles

• SitsIntegration

• Addition Verification (is that the right terminology?!)

Stalled / Abandoned Projects

• On-line submission of assignments (Assignments 2 documentation)

Completed Development Work

• Sir Louie Project (submitted to JISC 05/10)

• 'Epigeum' Courses

• Listening for Impact JISC Project

• Using Oxford SSO credentials to access a WebLearn podcast

• G-TiMES

Documentation

• Developing Documentation (Developing case studies)

• Links to existing Sakai documentation

  • Sakai documentation redesign wiki

    • LA 2011 BoF video

    • BOF 1 wiki page

    • BoF 2 wiki page

• FAQ for accessors

• FAQ for maintainers

• FAQ for El Supremo Administrator

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

• Adams briefing paper to UST

• Project proposal for UST

• Exit strategy

• Content Migration Links to pages covering project plan, requirements gathering, analysis of types of content, tools for migration, etc.

• Adam's MigrationDocumentation page

Misc

• AllAboutTutorials

• LectureCapturing

• Meeting notes (incl. conferences)

• FiveYearPlan2012 5 year plan 2011-2016 (Possible WebLearn projects) (Sakai-related projects, 5 year plan 2010-2015)

• Converting word to HTML

• Groups Store Scenarios (old: Groups use cases related: CONEXUS: Abandoned OUCS/Cambs Groups Service JISC bid)

• Configuring MySQL for Sakai deployment

• configuration properties for 2.5

• Notes regarding upgrade to Sakai 2.6

• Candidates for Stakeholder Interviews

• survey summary (restricted access)

• BVRE Requirements

• Possible new Sakai tools

• 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 ]

• WebLearnMarketingSuggestions

Archived pages

• See ArchivedPageLinks

• A comparison of Bodington and Sakai Tools and Services - JingJing's work

• Tools survey Michaelmas 2007

Other Information

• Hotels in Oxford

• Travelling to OUCS

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Bodington - WebLearn (G)old

(Mostly out of date.)

• Bodington Services

• Bodington Tools

• Stats about Bods tool usage

• TasksInRT Links to saved searches in RT

• FeaturesInNewVersions: Reverse history of changes in each release version

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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.

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