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In addition to Moodle you could also consider SharePoint with SLK. SharePoint is a free add-on to Windows, unless you go down the Office Server route, and SLK is open-source. Even if you want to use Moodle for learning specific stuff there are Moodle web parts available to integrate into SharePoint if you wanted to use its functionality.

Hi, This is a copy of my reply in the CodePlex forum, but I'll post it here as well for those who don't visit that. As always the best solution depends on how your users are going to use it. If there's going to be a lot of class specific use such as discussion lists etc, then one site per class will enable this best. As David has recommended above, you don't need to store the learning resources within the class site, they can be in 'library sites'. If there's not going to be any use of the individual sites then you may be better off with a site covering multiple classes. Other possibilities to keep the number of sites down which I've implemented are: * A Site per Subject Year combination e.g. Maths Year 7, Maths Year 8, English Year 7 * A Site per Subject * A Site per class, but these are hidden so no-one can access them. They are then purely used to populate the list of sites to choose to assign an assignment to. One other thing to consider is that different parts of the school may have different needs, for example in Year 7 if everyone is doing similar work you may only need a site per Subject Year, but higher up years have individual sites per class. Finally, for those not interested in developing their own, the product which I have developed handles all the possibilites discussed and more. If you would like more information, please visit http://www.salamandersoft.co.uk or email me at [email protected]. Richard

I've found running FileMon from SysInternals (now owned by MicroSoft) the best tool for figuring out problems with DocServer. It will be able to show you which files DocServer is trying to access and the result (success, error etc). The best thing is that it's completely free. It's available from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Filemon.mspx Richard

Hi, Good timing as I was just working on this last week. When a user is added to SharePoint their details are read from Active Directory and then stored separately in SharePoint. The SharePoint details are not automatically updated when AD is updated - this includes display name and email address as well as their SIP address. To update the details in SharePoint you will either have to do it all manually or use a provisioning tool to do so. See my profile for more details. Regards, Richard