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When I wrote about the Brighstarr “How to build rich and interactive websites for education ” event being held on 4th November, it was in advance of the new Saïd Business School website actually going live. Which meant he couldn’t point to what had been
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The University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School recently asked BrightStarr, one of our education partners, to create a website that would help it promote its courses and research. The Business School wanted a rich and engaging website that would capture
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With increasing governance and fiscal demands, Northumbria University needed a way for their managers to quickly and easily track critical financial and student data. After implementing the Business Intelligence solution, their stakeholders now
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The number of colleges using SharePoint to provide a portal within their college is steadily increasing – mainly, I think, because it can provide a way to integrate all of the different sets of data across the college – from student information systems,
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During half-term week, we joined the Welsh Assembly Government at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Cardiff Bay, to launch Welsh language support for SharePoint. Steve Beswick, of Microsoft, and Meri Huws, of the Welsh Language Board, officially launched the pack
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This year, all across education, people are finding it more difficult to justify a day off campus to attend events. So this year, we’re going to come to you. Right to your desk. Via the wonders of virtual conferencing. On the 19th June. Although all of
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One of our partners, Parabola Software, asked me to let you know about their free “SharePoint in Further Education” day which we’re hosting at our main offices in Reading on Friday 27th March. As well as an opportunity understand what Sharepoint can offer
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As Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) deployment is increasing in colleges, we’re getting more questions about different licensing scenarios. Thankfully, Emma, who’s Microsoft’s ladylicensing , has posted an excellent guide to help you look at
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Waterstons , one of our education partners is hosting a free event with us and Durham Business School in Durham on the afternoon of the 6 August . The event starts at 12:00, and the agenda covers: Introduction Dominic Watts from Microsoft opens the afternoon’s
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A few days ago, the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint was released on CodePlex (our open source project hosting web site). And, for colleges, it’s an opportunity to move into a multimedia, web 2.0 world in a more controlled way. Up until now, many of the
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Great news! The highly successful Digital Literacy Curriculum is now available as SCORM objects that can be deployed in a Learning Platform or as part of a SharePoint/SLK implementation. The resources are free and can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/gbr/resources.mspx
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Last week the Education team hosted a SharePoint Showcase Event at Microsoft in Reading. The idea was to present a different partner solution for SharePoint every 12 minutes! A bit like speed dating. The format seemed to be popular, at least from the
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The popularity of Learning Gateway and SharePoint in Education continues, and a growing number of Microsoft Partners now have applications that integrate with SharePoint. In the past year, we've run a series of events to provide a chance for schools and
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You're probably already familiar with SharePoint, and some of its capabilities to support communication and collaboration for both students and staff. But what never ceases to amaze me are the other uses that people find for it in education. Coventry
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Have you been looking for a way to convert older learning resources into SCORM format? Well Hunterstone may have the answer for you. HunterStone announced it has developed a "Mass SCORM Conversion Tool." The company developed the tool for use in projects
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