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
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
Microsoft have not just release Microsoft Live Pivot as a downloadable application but also the ability view the data in your web browser. Using Microsoft Silverlight, Pivot will open the data stored in an XML format in your browser the same way it would load it in the full version. Here are a few examples … Continue reading Microsoft Live Pivot in the browser