We are still looking at some of the great feature in SharePoint 2010 that will enhance the education sector. Everywhere we go now in SharePoint 2010 we see wiki pages. If you create a new Team Site from the default site template list you will find the home page (home.aspx) is a wiki page and … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 3, Wiki’s
Last night on the 18th March the SharePoint User Group held their first meeting in Leicester round the Education market space. It was a great meeting with over 30 people attending asking many questions. Richard Willis also presented on SharePoint Learning Kit and the new features in the recent update to 1.4. You can … Continue reading SUGUK: 101 Question before Implementing SharePoint in Education
Just a quick post to let everyone know I will be talking about SharePoint in Education at the next Midlands SharePoint User Group on 18th March 2010. 101 Questions before Implementing SharePoint into Education Questions that can be asked both from a technical and end user adoption point of view. Have you got everything you … Continue reading Speaking at SharePoint User Group: Education
In Part 1 we looked at the new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows you to place 2 SharePoint calendars on top of each other allow you to view them on the same calendar screen. Moving on from this we can now add our Exchange calendar as well. Continuing from the calendar we created … Continue reading Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 2: With Exchange 2010
One of the many requests I had in SharePoint 2007 was the ability to place SharePoint Calendars on top of each other like you can in Outlook 2007 saving you having to look at each and work out when the best time is for a meeting. SharePoint 2010 introduces the Group Calendars allowing you to … Continue reading Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 1
After our first look at SharePoint 2010 and the uses of it for education I wanted to talk about the metadata structure that is available for schools to tag and share documents both within their school and other school as well. SharePoint 2010 has a tag structure that allows you to tag a single document … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 2
I loved Microsoft Class Server. I had version 3 and then version 4 came out which came with Web Parts for SharePoint 2003. My Favourite part of Class Server was always the Teacher Client. It was great to create quiz’s, true and false questions and create rubrics around the paragraphs that have been written by … Continue reading Blast from the Past – Microsoft Class Server
Here is a first post of a set to talk about a few of the benefits of SharePoint 2010 for the education market. Last week I had the great opportunity to present on SharePoint 2010 at BETT 2010 which is the worlds largest education technology show in the world with over 24,000 people attending. Microsoft … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 1
13th January was the first day of BETT (http://www.bettshow.com) and I’m here this year presenting on the uses of SharePoint 2010. You can come and listen to my demo of SharePoint 2010 at 11:05 and 14:45 each day. Over the next few blog posts I thought I would go through what we have looked at … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 @ #BETT2010
There are many email products that could be used for the Learning Gateway but if you ask most people they will say they use Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft recently released their latest version of Exchange (Exchange 2010) which we will look into further in a few posts time. Cloud computer is being pushed by many different … Continue reading The Next Learning Gateway: Live@edu