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Meeting with David Clelland to look at Plato - ah, maybe not! Ah yes. Now we are in!

Plato link. Username: apate Password: plato@ap2010

8/17/2010 10:43 AM =   Online meeting with David Clelland from Plato re: Sharepoint LMS   = **Server address:** [] ** Admin Login: ** apate ** Password: ** plato@ap2010 AP: Can we run a hands-on session? Staff have asked if it’s possible to play with the system. DC: Usually, the facilitator controls the session. If the aim is to take people through the presentation, this is hard to achieve with everyone jumping in and out. [Online meeting started at 10.48am]

Front Page
Sharepoint has ability to have different levels. One LMS, with many looks, all stored on the one server. Each fac might what a different look and feel. Courses, etc. are on the front page. All access determined by levels. Only courses that you are authorised to use Within category, Grade 3 might be a course, then Maths or Science with subcategory. Course is a side category. Teacher’s names come out of Active Directory Contains templates for marking, timetable can be set up for students, room and teachers. Import would have to be checked out for format matching. Within LMS – Global question pool, global announcements, global document library (also course libraries) Not linked. Would load docs to LMS global library and then drag to course.

Within a Course – Homepage for Teachers
** Learners  **  are shown. All **  announcements  **  are just for the course ** Calendar  **  within the course. (Can it sync to Outlook? Yes!) ** Documents  **  within the course. All sorts of documents, videos, word, pdf, any multimedia. Can be tracked for versions. (Are there limits on formats or does it use the computers defaults? It uses the computers defaults) ** Discussion boards  **  – discussions within the course. ** Chat  **  – MSN ** Mailbox  **  – just for the course. (Linked to Outlook? No. It’s just within the course) ** Learning Paths  **  – a guided course for students. Chapter A before B, B before C, etc. Includes Quizzes, Documents, Video content embedded. ** Links  **  – just like links in a blog, but slightly more information available – eg. Start date and end date. ** Quizzes  **  – can import SQARM quizzes. You can have questions imported from the Question Pool. (?!) There is a setup template including timings, type, randomised, show in the Grade Book, last attempt or best attempt in the Grade Book, can they change workstations to complete the quiz, apply a certificate to the quiz, (also can be attached to the course),etc. ** Types of questions  **  – drop down, true or false single choice, hotspot, feedback, percentages, gradebook entry, etc. ** Videos  **  - Rather than have PPT to download, change it to a Flash version and upload that. ** Reporting  **  – can be set up to send automatically, report on different functions, issue certificates, time spent, who’s access the course, any level of management, (will it tell you who has accessed what document when? – just checking) [ **  My Site  **  in Sharepoint – Students can access their own courses in My Site.] ** Two add-on modules  **  – Enrol module, HR module, ePortfolio (20% of the LMS cost if you buy together – 40% of LMS as an add-on) ** DropBox  **  – Homework is uploaded by teacher, student downloads to complete, returns the completed work, teacher can mark and keep, or return to the student to resubmit. (In Active Directory – if students are in a class then you have to drag them across from the AD. You can also do it through a command window. Can see all the Learners in a class). ** Assignments  **  – fully optioned. All learners ‘of this course’. ** Conference Feature  **  – MS coms server. Integration is already built in, but MS feature must be bought from them. ** Grade Book  **  – only for the students within the course. RSS feed for changes. Alerts via email. ** Help  **  – useful ** Tracking  **  – stats, (not used yet in the test module) [Can management access this? Not within the course, but from the Fornt Page] ** Wiki Page Library  **  – [Can they be Global or Specific? In this case, no, but can be set up from Front Page] [AP: All of the users need to be part of our AD. Is that correct? DC: Yes. AP: How do we share information with parents of students? DC: Parents can also get a login. I need to have a good look at that – although not sure. Can have access, but don’t need to be part of the AD] ** Seating chart  **  – used to [photos grabbed from AD] ** People and Groups  **  – you can have standard groups, and create custom groups, and sub groups. ** Staff  **  – list and photos of staff

Students
Can only see their announcements, their grades, their assignments. Students can only adjust settings on My Site, but not on the LMS. My Site is part of SharePoint [DC: Microsoft compatible – and have worked very closely with MS so that it is seamless] [AP: Optimum access through My Site for students. MUST BE the first port of call for students and teachers. DC: will send AP the image of My Site] [AP: Because it’s inside a browser are there any issues with Mac. DC: No.] [DC: No other K-12 schools. In Universities, and trialled by unis and TAFEs] [AP: Automatic updating of student changes? DC: Not sure] [AP: Roll over to a new group of kids? DC: Duplicate the course, and everything gets copied across] [AP: Minimum storage capacity needs to drive it? DC: It depends on content. What does the framework need? DP: Specs to AP.] [DC: Pre-setup needed for next Thursday? AP: Doable!] Meeting closed at 17/08/2010 11:51 AM