MyWebLearn: Introduction Matthew Buckett LTG, Computing Services, Oxford University

WebLearn Overview Hosting Tools Accounts Groups Tracking Uploaded Files Web Pages Tools Discussion Area Assessment Tools Accounts Oxford and External Groups Central managed groups Tracking For more information about WebLearn you can look at the help documentation provided within the system.

MyWebLearn Overview Personal Space Available to All Oxford Users Sign up Bookmarks Public Area Private Area Quotas Restrictions MyWebLearn provides you with your own personal space within WebLearn where you can create your own content and share it with other people. In this area you are in control of who has access to the material that uploaded and created.

Sign Up What is sign up doing? MyWebLearn Access Change them later. Public: Everyone access Visible: Everyone know it exists Private: Only seen and accessed by you Change them later. Accept IT Rules. Demo Sign up creates your MyWebLearn space so that you can start creating content. You should only need to signup once. When signing up you need to choose how public your MyWebLearn space will be. Unless you have a good reason we would encourage people to at least make it visible so that other users can find their space. You can always change the access later.

Pre-created Content Home Space Public Space Private Space Demo Container for all the resources you create. Can adjust who has access. Public Space Private Space Demo When you signup for MyWebLearn some basic resources are created for you. These spaces can be changed and deleted at any point later on.

Public Space Published to the World Sharing with everyone May be found my search engines Any material places in this resource will be accessible to the world without requiring a user to login. You can easily see if a resource is public by looking in the top bar of WebLearn and see if there is the message “Public: yes”. Any other containing

Private Space Just accessible by you Keeping private material

Bookmarks Browser Bookmarks MyWebLearn Advantages Demo Portability Sharing Following Content Demo

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

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

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

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

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

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).