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The Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) is an e-learning tool that works with Microsoft Learning Gateway. This combination makes it easier for educators to deliver both interactive and basic documents. Learn more about SLK and join the user and development community. The Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) is a standards-compliant e-learning tool that integrates with the Microsoft Learning Gateway solution. This combination makes it easy for educators to deliver both interactive and basic documents. SLK helps users deliver, track, and grade e-learning content with full SCORM 2004 compliance. It also supports basic functions for any electronic document. To empower community extensions and enrichment, SLK is designed to support developer accessibility and will be released under a community-license agreement at no cost. Microsoft Learning Gateway enables educational institutions to quickly build and deploy a security-enhanced Web-based learning environment with rich collaborative tools that deliver line of business applications in one fully managed environment-and it connects the right people to the right information at the right time.
 * [[image:http://img.microsoft.com/education/images/slk.jpg width="145" height="90" caption="The SharePoint Learning Kit" link="http://www.microsoft.com/education/slk.mspx"]] || [|The SharePoint Learning Kit]
 * Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit**

http://www.codeplex.com/SLK SharePoint Learning Kit is a SCORM 2004 certified e-learning delivery and tracking application built as a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution. It works with either Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and has the following core features:


 * Supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and Class Server content, allowing users to store and manage this content in SharePoint document libraries.
 * Supports learner-centric and instructor-led (assigned) workflows.
 * Allows assignment, tracking and grading of both e-learning and non-e-learning content.

Announcements / Requests

 * Please test the RC build for [|1.3.1 RC].
 * The SLK Course Manager is now available for [|1.3.1 RC]. Course Manager is an add-on that provides course planning, assignment tracking, and grade book.
 * LanguagePack 1.1 containing 29 languages has been added to [|1.3.1 RC]. Thanks to all the localization owners for their contribution and effort.
 * A preview release of the Assignment Dropbox by Drooke is available on the [|1.3.2 Alpha -- Content Assignment Work] page. ||

DOWNLOAD MoSS (3 month trial) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/default.aspx
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ajp/archive/tags/Education/default.aspx Alex Pearces bolg with downloads

Sharepoint webparts for Moodle http://www.codeplex.com/Moodle2003WP

Great Blog for ideas on Sharepoint: Includes 'how to videos' []

Here at Twynham we are passionate about collaborative learning and making use of Microsoft SharePoint to do this. We currently run MOSS 2007 and integrate it with our data system, extensive media library and other teaching and learning resources. Please feel free to browse through the various presentations, videos and documents which show the work we are doing. http://www.twynhamschool.com/supportinglearning/ [|Primary and secondary schools] Create a customized Learning Gateway environment that connects administrators, teachers, students, and parents. ||  || Whether your institution adopts a top-down or bottom-up approach, you can deploy a Learning Gateway framework that can support how you want to progress with the flexibility to accommodate later developments. This means your investments are future-proofed, even during times of rapid change. Click on the links below to learn much more about the capabilities of MLG when combined with partner solutions. Afterwards, contact a Microsoft partner who can customize Learning Gateway components into solutions tailored to meet your needs.
 * SharePoint @ Twynham**
 * [[image:http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/business/images/education/buttonimages/learninggatewayoverview.jpg width="55" height="55" caption="Primary and secondary schools" link="http://www.microsoft.com/education/learning_gateway_overview.mspx"]]
 * **Microsoft Learning Gateway (MLG)** is a powerful, extensible suite of features designed to help schools meet their priorities using a scalable, cost-effective framework. By deploying a Learning Gateway solution, you can give students personalized learning portals that bring together everything they need to support their classes. Password-protected access can be extended to parents, providing up-to-the-minute information on students’ attendance, grades, assignments, timetables, and upcoming events. Administrators are provided with a secure, personalized interface from which they can improve planning and follow-through and make effective decisions. Senior IT decision makers are better equipped to analyze data and report key information to governors, regulators, ministries, and other key agencies.
 * **Microsoft Learning Gateway (MLG)** is a powerful, extensible suite of features designed to help schools meet their priorities using a scalable, cost-effective framework. By deploying a Learning Gateway solution, you can give students personalized learning portals that bring together everything they need to support their classes. Password-protected access can be extended to parents, providing up-to-the-minute information on students’ attendance, grades, assignments, timetables, and upcoming events. Administrators are provided with a secure, personalized interface from which they can improve planning and follow-through and make effective decisions. Senior IT decision makers are better equipped to analyze data and report key information to governors, regulators, ministries, and other key agencies.


 * · __[|__Learn More About Microsoft Learning Gateway__]__ **
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[|On-demand demo] Download this demo to experience the Learning Gateway first hand.

The [|eXe project] is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages.

eXe is currently supported by [|CORE Education], a New Zealand-based not-for-profit educational research and development organisation. eXe grew out of the [|New Zealand Government Tertiary Education Commission's] eCollaboration Fund and was led by the [|University of Auckland], [|The Auckland University of Technology], and [|Tairawhiti Polytechnic]. It has also been greatly assisted by a global group of participants and contributors.

eXe was named a finalist in the New Zealand round of the [|IMS Global Learning Impact Awards 2008] and went on to claim a Leadership Award at the international judging. (eXe was rated Best in Show for "Content Authoring", and also one of the top 3 participant rated projects!)