The London Grid makes a move

re: The London Grid makes a move

angelina9 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is working with Great Ormond Street Hospital to transform teaching and learning in the hospital school. Learners access LGfL’s online content and learning platform, which provides secure individual email, personal web-space and online storage, membership of personalised communities and courses to meet the needs of each learner in the school. The learners can access these resources whilst in the school, or when off-site, wherever there is internet access

Angelina Jacob

re: The London Grid makes a move

Ray Fleming — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:28:09 GMT

Hi "J",

Yes, a school could adopt it themselves, but it will obviously increase the management workload for you, as your local authority or RBC would probably provide a range of additional services, e.g.

- Setting up the central infrastructure to provision users – taking the management and overhead of that away from your school

- Getting the service accredited by BECTA – they aren’t going to go round every school to do that

- Liaising with us – as LGfL do – where we provide central account management, whereas for individual schools it is more of a 'self service’ system (No harm in that, but just wanted to explain the differencees)

If having considered all of this, you think it is the right way to go, then the TechNet Exchange Labs site is the way to go:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/bb847823.aspx

Ray

re: The London Grid makes a move

JSchlackman — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:59:20 GMT

Presumably if a school is not using the local consortium for whatever reason, they could still talk directly to Microsoft?