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Have you tried installing Moodle as your VLE and running it within SharePoint? You can use SharePoint web parts for Mooodle.

If you have a branded SharePoint site then you can send some screenshot(s) to The Kraal website and they will include your school in their gallery - to demonstrate where schools in the UK and beyond are taking their SharePoint installations. You can send a single screenshot, or if you want to send more information then include a copy of your school logo and whatever text you want to accompany your screenshots. You can see the gallery here.

Is this the case? In line with many others above, we report 6 times a year on progress, including targets, attainment, work ethic, and colour coded progress to target (or should it be progress from baseline?). We incorporate one full written profile each year. We also provide an individual online homework diary for every student, and a version for every parent to display their child's homework. All this reporting is wholly online. In the light of all this we have discussions in school about the worth of parents evenings - as parents already have so much data and information at their fingertips. Why do we need to regurgitate the same information to parents that they can already see online? True, parents are more judicious in who they choose to see these days, and often come with specific questions, not content with just listening to the teachers description of how their child is doing. But do we need these evenings? If as you say we have to have parents evenings, then perhaps we should be targeting parents - see who we want to see? Maybe tailor evenings to different groups of parents? As quality of reporting increases, so the need for parents evenings decreases....or does it?

We used to use First Class many years ago. We have been using SharePoint since 2006 - it is excellent and has allowed us to develop at the pace, and in the direction, that we wanted to. You can see some examples of school SharePoint systems at ICT In Education

I have used these people in the past to host a MOSS implementation for me - no problems and quite a good level of support. I believe they were intending to provide a free 2010 solution, but don't know if that ever happened... SharePoint 2010 Hosting - Hosted SharePoint Server by Fpweb.net Mark

You could have a look at The Kraal home page which has some info and screenshots form schools who are using it.

Interesting question - would also like to know what people are using. We use SLK.

Depends where you want to store the file. In the case of a page I would suggest you continue with http://servername/location/name_of_page.aspx as this will link to a page within your SharePoint site. You will find that if you specify the path as http://servername/location/name_of_page.aspx, the 'http://servername' is known to the system, and it will create a relative path for you. Thus renaming the server at a later date should not pose a problem. /_layouts/images/picture.jpg points to a file on the server itself - so the site images for example could be stored centrally there away from the site, if you prefer. Mark

Hi Richard, Is it not the case that targeting individual items in a calendar will only work in list views and not calendar view? I seem to remember this being a known issue in MOSS? Mark

Have a look at the kraal website for examples of other schools SharePoint installations, and for guidance on design. You can also contact us at Blatchington Mill if we can help you.... Mark

We are not in the north of the country, but have been hosting a sizeable installation of SharePoint and SLG2. You can view details on it on the gallery at The Kraal (Blatchington Mill School) or alternatively contact the school and we will gladly discuss it with you.

You could look at a few school's implementations of SharePoint on the Schools Gallery at The Kraal website....

Blatchington MIll School technical case study Videos - Blatchington Mill, Twynham, Monkseaton Schools Gallery on The Kraal

Have a look at The Kraal, where there is a gallery of screenshots from schools using Sharepoint. May help to give you some ideas?

Hi Laura, You may be interested in this site for some support in using SharePoint in school... the kraal - SharePoint and ICT in the Education Community