Bodington at Oxford

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Bodington at Oxford

• Dr Adam Marshall
• Learning Technologies Group
• Oxford University Computing Services

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Local Installation

• Re-branded as
• Pilot service 2003-2004
• Production service from 2004
• 2004 3411 users, 19464 resources, 614109
  hits/week
• 2005 4781 users, 33040 resources, 1020362
  hits/week
• 2006 6790 users, 41317 resources, 1831079
  hits/week
• Med Sci (32), Life Sci (22), Humanities (18)
• 50 registered Oxford users have logged in
• most departments and 1/3 colleges on board

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What we liked (1)

• Not course-based - can browse
• fits Oxford model of pick n mix!
• societies have rooms (sites)
• committees too (minutes etc)
• Open content (google-ability)
• other institutions can view our courses
• 11,000 indexed resources
• currently 31 access not from ox.ac.uk

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What we liked (2)

• Fine grained access control
• more later
• Flexible roles devolve control
• John explained earlier
• Open source
• can add external tutors / researchers

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Use Cases

• Hierarchy and access control
• Shared logbooks
• MyWeblearn (personal space)

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Hierarchy and ACL (1)

• Examples
• guest lecturer on private course wants notes
  public deep linking from front page
• research project w/ external members
• external tutor on course
• multiple owners / change owners
• tutor sets up ltngt fora and partitions tutees
• can create protected content in place then open
  up

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Hierarchy and ACL (2)

• Medical sciences
• Students create manage own set of resources
• includes notes, MCQ, links, videos
• open to all
• M.Sc. in e-learning
• First couple of modules public
• rest are protected

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Shared Logbooks

• Medics Year 6 portfolio
• Medics Organisation of Body

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MyWeblearn

• ACL controlled website
• Students host Thesis
• My MyWeblean
• papers, ppts, photos, links, forum
• some public, some restricted, some private

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Future

• Need favourite features in Sakai
• Looking at integration
• tools
• services
• Matthew will elaborate

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That Cat in a Fez Again