Twisted-Pony

Has anybody purchased/implemented Capita's webparts for SIMS.net in a portal outside of their Learning Gateway? Would be very interested to hear how the whole experience has gone.

Thanks for clearing that up. We use Sharepoint Portal Server; I always refer to it as either Portal or Sharepoint having never used Sharepoint Services for an MLG, allthough it can be done. Main difference seems to be in terms of scale regarding the amount of schools that you want to offer an MLG to.

Hi, We don't use CMIS, so cannot help there. Would guess that it's as easy to integrate CMIS as SIMS was )))) We are using Class and Portal. All of our staff use it; forced to by GPO, and again all of our students use it. Some staff (10) use class server to post assignments and homework exercises; all staff and students are moving to our internally hosted exchange email in September. Its been launched for about a year now and so far (barring) a few teething stresses, no real issues. We trialled SWGFL portal; not for us, we trialled Moodle; not quite flexible enough for us; and we looked at sims gateway; but not ready in time. Sharepoint is expensive and complex; but if you do the homework and read; its easy enough.

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Very interested, details as and when.

We use a MLG at our school as opposed to the SWGfL option offered by our LEA. There have been a few teething issues, mainly to do with fine tuning what is a corporate product into one that works well in the education field, but it's a far better option for us. If anybody wants to pick our collective brain about MLG's....................[align=justify]