bluesquarething

Fwiw there's rarely anything that says that kids *have* to do their work using IT. I know quite a few people who are moving to all (or most) handwritten stuff.

You have to disable the account. This is necessary, unfortunately. By careful naming of the user areas it might be made a bit easier. Generic ones won't work if work's going to be stored on them - but once the CA for that subject is done with they could be backed up (please...) and then deleted. If it helps at all this was QCA's fault rather than the exam boards. You can blame Prince Hal and his art teacher...

Might be worth trying to reset their user areas - this very occasionally happens for me and that seems to do the trick along with deleting the macromedia folder from My Settings if needed.

Ah, a page that generates 199 validation errors when I run it through the w3c validator. Just the sort of stuff we shoul dbe throwing onto the web then ;-) Not a lot of alt-text either - images are unusable when I turn them off but I need to click them to get someplace :-( It does cope OK with an accessibility layout though. OK, so it's a funky interface and it does look just what the kids would want. I'm also being picky - it rendered OK - but if it's that great a piece of software I'd really want it to do a bit better when it comes to using it for what is essentially a corporate website. I'd love to use Frog in school mind. It's just too expensive for now though. I'm sure there have to be other stuff on the way that will morph the look. Hope so anyway.

Our LEA did that apparantly. Uniservity was apparantly miles ahead of all the others. Err...

1.The decision for a VLE rests solely with the educators not the IT staff? Bit of both, but when it comes down to it it's prolly going to be the teaching staff using it with the kiddies. 2. All VLE's are pretty much the same, they all have the same functionality? More or less - although some of the functionality is more, err, functional on some vle's because of the way the interface is designed 3. From the end-users perspective it does nt matter whether the VLE is hosted internally or externally? Assuming that everything works all the time and is reliable enough then it shouldn't. 4. A secondary school and feeder primaries would benefit greatly from all using the same VLE? Probably, but that's no excuse for the secondary school to bully it's primaries into buying the same system or trying to force inappropriate ways of working on them... By extension though does this mean that all schools within a local area would benefit greatly? Within an LEA? Region? Country? 5. Most teachers will use a VLE as a replacement for the dumping ground that is the shared network drive? Teachers? Use a VLE? Blimey, most of ours don't know how to log on to the darned thing let alone use it to store files... Eventually they probably will. And the vle will need to be swept to get rid of all the stuff that no-one wants.