School intranets

[beeswax]

Just a general query for those schools which have an intranet. What software do you use, and what's the most useful thing you've accomplished with it?

[tmcd35]

We use a product called 'Schoolnet' at the moment, produced by a guy at Yewlands High School. So far it's little more than a room booking system. We was using the Helpdesk, but things of got lax... We need to get on top of Intranets, helpdesks, etc here - when we get the time amongst the billion and one other jobs.

[Domino]

Sharepoint For the win!

replaced staff briefings with daily news feed.
Brought in fault logging for it/caretaking/media
produced independant sites for various whole school prjects.

And its totally AD integrated, so all the permissioning, etc is easy

[plexer]

MediaWiki for staff, student and tech support intranets.

CRBS for room booking.

My little helpdesk for ICT Support helpdesk.

Ben

[TechMonkey]

homebrew custom hand crafted html or asp

Looking at updating though, hopefully sharepoint. Currently have IT bookings, urgent notices, cover sheet, links to online resources per department, our FAQ, a homework hand in system, policies, feeder school info. All sorts of goodness.

[tmcd35]

MediaWiki for staff, student and tech support intranets.

Ben

Just started using MediaWiki here for a Tech Support intranet - prob. the most useful thing with implemented in a while!

[FN-GM]

Just a general query for those schools which have an intranet. What software do you use, and what's the most useful thing you've accomplished with it?

You can take a look at ours if you like. I control permissions with IIS, just added you to allowed list.

If you add http://172.24.32.4 into your intranet zones in IE then navigate to http://172.24.32.4

Please bare in mind it’s a working progress, if you have any problems you have my e-mail.

Z

PS: Will only work internally

[webman]

You can take a look at ours if you like. I control permissions with IIS, just added you to allowed list.

If you add http://172.24.32.4 into your intranet zones in IE then navigate to http://172.24.32.4

PS: Will only work internally

That's useful to those of us here on the, urm, internet...

[Gibbo]

At my previous school we really reduced paper usage by using the intranet.

Important staff documents could be stored for staff to easily obtain and read by PDF.

Daily bulletins were made electronic - even to the point of an on-line submission form.

It presented pupils with a clean starting interface for their web browsing and made sure they saw important announcements when they logged on.

[Sylv3r]

WIKI for the ICT Support Team
Kayako as our ICT Helpdesk
and Sharepoint with SIMS webparts as our Staff / Student / Parent Intranet

All web based and available externally via the internet.

[CyberNerd]

We have a mashup of Drupaled moodle and mediawiki.

[maniac]

I've just set up a basic staff intranet using wordpress, as it's dead simple! Because it's basically a blogging application, it's really easy for admin people to go in, type a new article and submit it, no complecations there at all. It also has shortcuts to our ICT helpdesk, school website, webmail, Eclipse library system and google so it's a good starting point for staff. Students at the moment just get a crude HTML page with shortcuts on to the different systems.

It doesn't look that impressive, it could be better if I had more time to spend on it, but it's really only a stop gap until we get our full VLE in place which will hopefully be sharepoint based, and take over as the starting page for all.

Mike.

[zag]

Sharepoint, awesome piece of software

[apearce]

I'm using sharepoint but I'm going to say that anyway ;-)

[ezzauk]

We just use Apache/Mysql/PHP for the College website and intranet.
Wordpress for the student/staff announcements
Moodle for our E-Learning.

We also have a FT webmaster.

Ezza