Important notice

We are upgrading our VLE (Moodle) installations. Most have been upgraded, but but are providing two versions of this site to support the few that haven't.

If you find that the guidance here does not match your course, you can access the other site at: http://onlinesupport-m19.conted.ox.ac.uk.

You are viewing the new (Moodle 2) support site.

To determine if you are on the correct site, compare the top of your course with these images:

  1. A horizontal grey bar above a blue area, with white text.
    Old version - Use http://onlinesupport-m19.conted.ox.ac.uk
  2. An entirely blue area, with white text.
    New version - Use this site

When the upgrade is complete, all the online support will be on http://onlinesupport.conted.ox.ac.uk/.

Updated: 2013-01-02.

More tools

If you are interested in other tools that could help your learning you may want to investigate some of the following:

RSS/News feeds/Aggregators

These tools allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest updates, headlines and announcements in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit many different websites. The News feeds from the BBC screen gives a good overview of how these work or you may want to watch the following short video from Common Craft for an easy to understand overview.

The most well known aggregators include Bloglines and Google Reader.

Homepage sites

These tools let you collect a selection of updated content and information on one site, which you can then use as your homepage. The most well known homepage services include iGoogle and My Yahoo.

Mapping tools

These allow you to see maps of anywhere easily and in most cases overlay satellite images of the location as well. These tools can also help you visualise mapping and special data in new ways. The most well known are Google Maps, and Windows Live Search Maps.

Online office tools

Google and others now offer free online tools that replicate the main functionality of the standard office programmes such as word processing and spreadsheets. These tools also often allow you to collaborate on documents with other users. Perhaps the most well known of these tools is Google Docs but Zoho also offers a wide selection.