MyWebLearn: Introduction

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MyWebLearn Introduction

• Matthew Buckett
• LTG, Computing Services, Oxford University

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WebLearn Overview

• Hosting
• Uploaded Files
• Web Pages
• Tools
• Discussion Area
• Assessment Tools
• Accounts
• Oxford and External
• Groups
• Central managed groups
• Tracking

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MyWebLearn Overview

• Personal Space
• Available to All Oxford Users
• Sign up
• Bookmarks
• Public Area
• Private Area
• Quotas
• Restrictions

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Sign Up

• What is sign up doing?
• MyWebLearn Access
• Public Everyone access
• Visible Everyone know it exists
• Private Only seen and accessed by you
• Change them later.
• Accept IT Rules.
• Demo

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Pre-created Content

• Home Space
• Container for all the resources you create.
• Can adjust who has access.
• Public Space
• Private Space
• Demo

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Public Space

• Published to the World
• Sharing with everyone
• May be found my search engines

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Private Space

• Just accessible by you
• Keeping private material

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Bookmarks

• Browser Bookmarks
• MyWebLearn Advantages
• Portability
• Sharing
• Following Content
• Demo

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Quotas

• One quota for your MyWebLearn Space
• 10MB of Uploaded Files
• Uploaded Files
• Attachments to Discussion Rooms
• 500 Resources
• Bookmark
• Suite
• Discussion Room
• Possible Increases
• Demo

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Custom Areas

• Share material with any group of users (eg.
  project)
• Control over permissions
• More tricky to set up

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Uses

• Publishing notes, papers, documents.
• Co-authoring material.
• Hosting Discussions.
• Preparing Material.
• Project Collaboration
• Anything you want....

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Enhancements

• Directory like list of MyWebLearn areas
• Creation of custom groups that can be reused
• More guided use of MyWebLearn
• Improved bookmarking (bookmark folders)

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Demos

• Uploading Content
• Creating a Suite, nested
• Granting Access
• Deleting Bookmarks

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Tasks

• Sign up For MyWebLearn
• Find your department/college/unit and Bookmark
• Check your bookmark has appeared and works
• Create a document example.doc
• Upload to your private MyWebLearn space
• Check your quota usage
• Delete the uploaded file
• Create a Suite in your MyWebLearn area.
• Share suite with only the person sitting next to
  you (you will need to know their username).