Install SharePoint Learning Kit to the Farm Download SharePoint Learning Kit from the codeplex website hosted here http://slk.codeplex.com. The current version for this blog post is SLK-SP2010-Beta2.zip. Extract all the files located in the downloaded zip to c:SLK. Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell In a later stage we will be running a pre-written PowerShell … Continue reading Walk Through: Install SLK 1.5 on SharePoint 2010
In recent months the next version of Moodle has been beta released to the general public on the Moodle website. Moodle is an open source product and a new update to the currently 1.0 is always available. There is almost a weekly update that a school can implement with a new feature. A team who … Continue reading Install Moodle 2 on Windows Server 2008 R2, PHP, IIS, MySQL
On the 2nd October I was presenting at the SharePoint Saturday in the UK at the Hilton Metropol, Birmingham. The day was filled with great speakers and sessions. My favourite was the session by Sam Dolan (aka @pinkpetrol) who, in an hour, took a standard SharePoint 2010 site and turned it into a great looking … Continue reading SharePoint Saturday UK: Slide Deck: Connecting Service Application
I’ve been given a Microsoft MSDN Subscription to give away to the great community that I am part of. The prize has come from Microsoft and I’ve been given free rain on how to give this out. What is MSDN? MSDN stands for Microsoft Developers Network and is a community of how to documentation and … Continue reading Tell us your story and win a Microsoft MSDN Subscription
The UK will be hosting its first SharePoint Saturday on the 2nd October located in my home town of Birmingham. With a total of 24 speakers and 30 session this becomes the largest free SharePoint event in the UK. Many months ago when it was first announced that the conference was coming to the UK … Continue reading Speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK #SPSUK
I got a tweet from @moodlenews asking why would I want the documents I have in Moodle stored in a SharePoint document library. Well it’s a very good question so I thought the fourth and final post on Integrating SharePoint and Moodle would be why we want to do this. Edit the File Once you … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: But Why….?
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 Part 3: Recommended Changes (this post) Checks You if now navigate to the Document Library we created earlier in Internet Explorer you will … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 3
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 (this post) Part 3: Recommended Changes Enable Feature For the Moodle OS to open a WebDAV enabled folder, the Desktop Experience Feature must be … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 2
Over the years the last year I have had many conversation on how to make SharePoint and Moodle better together and in recent posts I have how to install Moodle on a 32bit and how to install Moodle on 64bit operating systems. In the current version of Moodle any documents, assignments or images are stored … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 1
It’s the start of a new academic year and we are still looking at Microsoft Live Pivot but we are now going to look how we can create our own using Microsoft Excel and creating a tracking sheet that could be used in a class, subject or even the whole school. There are many advantages … Continue reading Creating your own School/Class Tracking sheet and using it in Microsoft Live Pivot