What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

The college at current has the Intranet and Moodle.

Moodle allows for:

· Searching Library books and Source material found in the library.

· Student finder – Searching for students by level name and course giving contact details of the student.

· Web mail services. All students have a email address and a way of contacting everyone in college.

· Forums for chat about work, events or just selling equipment.

· Work placement opportunities and job pages, which are updated regularly

· Career and CV guidance

· Lecture notes and materials

· Chat ability with people who are online.

· This year, also has been set up a page to link between the different levels of the course to try and get more collaboration.

Mahara

· Mahara is provided freely as open source software.

· Open source means you can copy, use and modify Mahara provided you apply to the terms and conditions.

Include the source code when distributing Mahara to others;

Not modify or remove the original license and copyrights

Apply this same license to any derivative work.

· The college already has this installed and set up ready to go

· It can be used any time from now, and would be free to set up as its already in place.

· Each student will get 5MB of disc space to use

· Everyone can create Blogs

Create blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor

Attach files to posts

Embed images into postings

Configure whether or not Comments may be received on their blog

Create draft postings for later publishing

· Mahara provides a social networking facility where users can create and maintain a list of Friends within the system.

· Mahara shows Internal portfolios within the college

Opposition in college, trying to set up together at the same time…..

Student web services

They want to provide a month on month Basis – We will offer it for free with the hope of advertising for our money.

They want to provide a “after university” support section for graduated students: as do we, allowing people who have graduated to still be associated with the college. You can use the Enterprise and Innovation centre up to two years after you graduate, why not this, which is online…

They Plan to have different templates to which the customer can choose to personalize.