We’ve had a quick look at the basic services of Office 365 for Education but what information do we already know about the services when it launches. Email Mailboxes are increasing in size for their current size of 10GB in live@edu to 25GB with the send attachment now increased to 25MB per email. You will … Continue reading What do we already know about Office 365 for Education?
Today I took an online exam around the current services available in live@edu. Its free!! Within the 34 question exam you are tested on the following General Live@edu Services Office Live Workspace Outlook Live and Windows Live Hotmail Windows Live Groups Windows live Messenger Windows Live SkyDrive Windows Live Spaces Why not go test your … Continue reading Become a live@edu Certified Master Teacher
In the past week Microsoft have released news regarding their new BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) which is their online services available to business which include Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Previously in the year Microsoft released the latest versions of their productivity suites such as Office 2010, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010. These services are … Continue reading Office 365 and live@edu
Having spent many years in schools there has always been a question that has been asked by a member of the teaching staff, ‘Can you get more than one person to open my Excel tracking sheet at the same time?’. Most schools will have Excel spread sheets that have information about pupil estimated grades, predicted … Continue reading Can you get more than one person to open my subject tracking sheet?
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….?