We have recently had a sharepoint installation and are currently starting to deploy it. My main intention was to use it as a document repository and as a dynamic front end for our staff (and later student) web sites. It is also intended to work as a portal to other services through the web parts add-ins.
In the future we will be using to distribute documentation to meetings and for creating work spaces for student work. Its integration into MS Office is seamless, it just happens. This opens extra items allowing workspaces to be created on the fly and automatically linking them to web spaces. It is a very impressive bit of software. You need a later version of MS Office but most Colleges use the MS Campus agreement which makes this easy and cheap.
As for use as a VLE or integration with a VLE, that is not something I have considered. Integration should be easy if you can get / write the appropriate web parts. Given peoples willingness to devote time to programming for Moodle, I would imagine that you could find someone to make that side work.
Tim Harrison
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From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Heather Peake
Sent: Mon 05/12/2005 15:01
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Subject: [VLES] SharePoint
Hi there
I have been through the archives and I can see one or two people are
either using or investigating Microsoft Sharepoint. Can anyone 'share'
with me their reason or reasons for choosing Sharepoint and whether or not
it has achieved more than they initially thought it would or whether it
has actually gone down the route of being a bit of a damp squib.
If you have integrated it with a proprietary VLE or even just connected it
to one that would be interesting too.
Many thanks
Heather
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