EduMaster

I just posted this on another thread earlier pretty sure they do Office 365 as well,it popped up on my lnkedIn feed just now "Summer madness! For a limited time you can get our award winning SharePoint Cloud learning platform for a weekly per user price from only 10p! Contact us for a free no-obligation trial and get a copy of our LP+ ADOPT book free"

I have just seen this on linkedIn thoughts anyone? "Summer madness! For a limited time you can get our award winning SharePoint Cloud learning platform for a weekly per user price from only 10p! Contact us for a free no-obligation trial and get a copy of our LP+ ADOPT book free"

These were also some of the objections I had to overcome. However when weighed against one another the benefits of staying on a cloud based solution seemed to far outweigh the negatives. And like you said, it is the solution that you choose and how they deliver it to work for each individual school which makes all the difference.

1. My school goes from KS1 through to YR11 2. The platform is based in the Vitual Cloud and hosted by the provider on a SharePoint 2010 platform 3. It syncs with my Liv@edu or I can choose to have their solution. It is also possible for me to link it to my internal network drive at a charge and can also link to third party suppliers via a single sign on If it can do all of the above though, why do we still treat Cloud based solutions with such uncertainty?

As well as uploading content I think that usage and engagement are the big fear factors around VLE's, I know it was certainly an area that we had to be convinced would be looked after, this time around. But whether it is an internally managed or externally hosted the issues will surely be the same. After all what is the point in having something for nothing if it isn't used? I for one couldn't get my head around Moodle as I was always fearfull that if my technical team left I would always be back at square one. I also felt that the training side of things would have been an issue with staff as there were just to many ways of doing the same thing.

Interesting point I will have to think about my seating arrangment for this one. Like I said though I have 6 months for them to prove themselves, which to be fair shouldn't be to difficult if it does what the demo did. Are we saying then that in many ways that a hosted cloud based solution reduces some of the headaches and time restraints involved in the day to day running of a VLE and If so why then is it not an effective option for some schools?

About two months ago I wrote a thread on this site, asking about the future plans for my VLE , and whether or not there was going to be an upgrade from their SharePoint 2007 solution. I then received an email that there was an upgrade to the platform but not the technology and after receiving my somewhat uninspiring demonstration I decided to cut my losses and look further afield. Thanks to a few great suggestions from yourselves I looked into a number of SP 2010 solutions, and have managed to find one that looks suitable and is also offering me a Six month, no questions asked, money back guarantee. The question I have though is not about the platform but more so about the cloud. Is this really where we are all destined to be, or not?

Thanks for this it looks good. When you get a chance I would be keen to catch up regarding your thoughts/meeting (I agree PM would probably be best) I also checked out their blog through Microsoft education as I was keen to hear what they had to say about the SP2010 claims, seemed to check out. Microsoft UK Education - Schools blog - Schools blog

I have been enquiring recently in to SharePoint 2010 VLE's who are you with?

Really this Christmas? I had always thought that there would be an upgrade but just had seen no sign of 2010. The only thing I was told was that there may be a few cosmetic changes but the nuts and bolts were somewhat fixed.

Should this not be used as a tool latched onto the platform rather than as the platform itself though?

Would you know anybody who does provide a SharePoint 2010 platform? Its just I am quite keen on some of the software that is included with it.

Does anybody know if RM will be upgrading their Learning Platform to SP 2010??

Hi, New to this but was wondering if anybody may be able to assist me with a little bit of Wisdom? My school has been part of this SharePoint Kaleidos VLE, but I can't help feeling that it isn't going anywhere. Does anybody know what will be happening with the RM VLE, is it upgrading to 2010 or will we be stuck with the 2007 version?