In the next set of blog posts I’m going to demonstrate what Microsoft Live Pivot is, what it can do and how we can create a great looking Excel tracking sheet that we can use to evaluate how students are doing in a course through out the year. What is Microsoft Live Pivot? I first … Continue reading What is Microsoft Live Pivot?
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
Every few months the Microsoft SharePoint team arrange a online chat for you to ask questions to SharePoint MVPs. Well, today is no exception. Come and ask any kind of question you have about SharePoint 2007 or 2010, a technical issue you have or if you want to know something about the product. Join us … Continue reading Chat with SharePoint MVPs Today
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
Its that time of year that I sit and wait to find out if I have been awarded for the last 12 months of activity in the SharePoint and education community. The time came and I was waiting for the email to come, and it didn’t, and it still didn’t arrive. So I checked my … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP again
As a school we have decided to evaluate Moodle for a VLE for our school. The main reasons we have done this is because of the course builder with built in quizs and SCORM builders. I have to say they are very well built. They are not page viewers like some companies make for their … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Moodle Webparts for SharePoint 2007
In this whitepaper you will be instructed on how to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster, 2 Web Front End Servers running Moodle 1.9 which are network load balanced and the configuration to run Moodle from a remote storage area. Following the 2 other whitepapers released back in April, I have written another … Continue reading Implementing Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft Highly Available Environment