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
In the past few days the new version of SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) has been released for SharePoint 2010. In the past few years I have not been able to decide whether SLK is the right tool for education transformation and giving students the engagement they need for lesson and online learning. Even though I … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: SLK for SharePoint 2010
In this small series of blog posts we are connecting SharePoint 2010 Service Applications to different farms. In the first post (click here), we created a trust between the two SharePoint Farms which is a dependence of publishing and connecting service applications. In this post we are going to connect the Metadata Service from a … Continue reading Connecting SharePoint 2010 Farms with Service Applications: Part 2
During the Learning Gateway Conference I presented on how SharePoint 2010 can be used in Education and also on how SharePoint 2010 MySites can be used for students and teachers, increasing their collaboration. The slides are now available to be viewed and also downloaded on slideshare. Learning Gateway Conference: SharePoint 2010 for Education View more … Continue reading Learning Gateway Conference Slide Desk–SharePoint 2010 and Social/MySites
With SharePoint 2010 we can now connect the service applications we have in one SharePoint 2010 farm to another and have a central metadata or user profile service application. We can connect more than just these two service applications. In this example below we will be doing this with the metadata service application. There are … Continue reading Connecting SharePoint 2010 Farms with Service Applications: Part 1
I was making some changes to my User Profile Sync today and was finding that my changes weren’t taking place so I decided to check that my Active Directory connection in the User Profile Connections. For some reason it had disappeared so I decided to restart my server (its only a demo server on my … Continue reading SharePoint 2010: Forefront Identity Service not Started: MOSS MA
I got an email the other day asking “where are the User Profile Pictures Stored?” All the photos are stored in a picture library in the root of the My Sites called User Photos. They are then stored in a folder called Profile Pictures. Navigate to your profile home page, delete default.aspx and type in … Continue reading SharePoint 2010: Where do my User Profile Photos Go?
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
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