Microsoft teamed up to HiSoftware to develop templates, master pages and webparts to help individuals with disabilities, especially those with vision impairment. HiSoftware have ensured they are W3C which is something some of my schools have been crying out for to help with their kids. One of my schools I look after directory are a … Continue reading Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS)
I’ve been asked to give a 5 – 10 minute presentation on the technologies I use in my school at Microsoft next month. One thing I am keen on is networking with others to find out what they are doing, how I can help them and how they can help me to improve my … Continue reading Education Presentation: Collobration and Networking in SharePoint
SharePoint Learning Kit and MLG will only work with the public mapping address set in Central Admin. If you are using a different address other than the default that was set up as part of your install you need to edit it. Link below on how to do it. http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/be9d31d2-b9cb-4442-bfc6-2adcdbff8fae1033.mspx?mfr=true If you are configuring your MLG … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: Default Alternate Access Mapping
A great list of SharePoint web links for any use – white papers, how to’s etc http://blogs.msdn.com/ukschools/pages/sharepoint.aspx Continue reading Sharepoint Links
Are you working in the SharePoint edcuation field, want to help others, make suggestions, develop ideas, general discuss anything…? Well Andrew Woodward is leading on creating a forum and has now set one up on over at SUGUK (SharePoint User Group UK). I’ll be helping to create some useful tools and documents as well. Go have … Continue reading Specialist SharePoint Education Forum
I’ve been searching for a Learning Resources product for a while (other than class server teacher client, which may I add is still best for questions for the server to answer) and now found one I like. http://www.lodestarlearning.com/ Very user friendly, teachers love it and the end products are good as well. Only problem … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: Learning Resource Products
I have decided to rewrite my last post – not happy with it going to shorten it. I thought for part 3 I would give a bit of a work through of SLK and assigning a document to a pupil. Install SLK Create a new Team Site Give your learners view access to your site … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: Part 3 – rewriten and shorter.
As in my previous post I said i was going to discuss Sharepoint Learning Kit (SLK) more indepth. So why use SLK? Well SLK replaced Microsoft Class Server 4. Used to create learning resources, assign then to students and class and then pupils can assgin the different questions. The question types included, true or false, multiple … Continue reading Sharepoint Learning Kit: Part 2
My school has been given 104 laptops for pupils to have. This has brought up many issues. The pupils have to be able to take the laptops home and use them there. This has brought up several issues, Group Policies for the user, not enough IPs in my allocated range for the government WAN, wireless … Continue reading RDP in SharePoint
Sharepoint Learning Kit is available from www.codeplex.com/slk SLK is used to assign individuals documents that they have to review, download and edit, answer the questions etc… SLK is SCORM compliant which enable schools to create learning content from such programs as MS Class Server Teacher and assign it pupils where they have to then answer the questions within the document. When the pupil … Continue reading Sharepoint Learning Kit