Huge Educational SharePoint Deployment - Miami Dade County Public Schools

Everyone is always looking for the huge case studies.  You don't have to go to Microsoft.com for this one.  See the Miami Herald's coverage of the Miami Dade SharePoint Deployment

http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/208130.html

Few good quotes:

"The school district will unveil a new version of its Web portal Monday, an interactive online site that will give the school district's 53,000 employees and 342,000 students and their parents unprecedented online access to everything from textbooks to tutoring."

"Done in partnership with Microsoft, the rollout on Monday will be the largest of its type that the software giant has done to date."

"''It's fairly new technology,'' said Debbie Karcher, the district's executive officer for information technology."

"While all teachers have been trained on how to use the portal, they are required to update only the grade and attendance part of it. Tech-savvy teachers may set up a discussion board and post homework for students. They can also tap into the portal for their own use, and monitor their paychecks."

As well some technical detail from an email on the deployment:

"This past weekend, Miami Dade County Public Schools successfully launched their full-fledged portal and applications suite, based on MOSS 2007, to over 360,000 students, 1.2 million parents, 40,000 employees, 400 school locations supporting 124,000 classes.  This weekend we released the following:

·         Role-Based Portals – Student, Parent, Principals, Employee

·         Collaboration Portals – 1200 Departmental Sites, 124,000 Class Sites, Project-Based Sites, 400 School Sites, etc.

·         Employee MySites – 40,000 Sites, Student MySites to follow this year

You can still check out the Miami Dade SharePoint Server case study on Microsoft.com.

Also found a cool Miami Dade Public Schools SharePoint Server customer evidence video.