Sharepoint Projects
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Sharepoint team services and Sharepoint portal have each been making headway within the WSU system as collaborative tools. This page is intended to compile information about the status and contact points for various initiatives.
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Sharepoint Team Services projects
Member Focus Group Management/Facilitation
The Cancer Prevention & Research Center recently held a member retreat for the purpose of putting together some research groups that can work toward multi-disciplinary projects. Part of the time was spent developing action plans. We are now in the process of creating sharepoint sites that will hopefully help these groups work together and move forward in the plans that were developed at the retreat. These groups contain members from WSU as well as other organizations in the Inland Northwest and so we have setup Sharepoint as an "extranet" using SSL.
Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE)
Team sites for internal collaborations.
Program Electronic Portfolios
In support of program-level portfolios, CTLT is creating team sites for Career Services and Student Affairs (and others over time) to develop into portfolios.
Sharepoint Portal projects
myWSU Proof of Concept
First demonstrated at the Sharepoint Summit in summer 05 and scheduled for demonstration at IT Forum March 06, this project demonstrates integration between Sharepoint portal and the myWSU currently implemented in Oracle portal technology. Concepts demonstrated include: similar user interface, accessing Oracle database.
Issues to be proven:
- Colors, layout, graphics, nav bar
- WSU banner and Related Info. Links – � responsive to user
- Contents – html, RSS feeds, etc.
- Cross-platform links – Help
- Access to Oracle – Notices alert icon
- Access to ADABAS – Balances display
- Single sign-on (Sharepoint-Oracle; Sharepoint-other resources)
Learning Management System (lite)
Several colleges that have been working with Sharepoint team sites have recognized (and College of Business has experimented with) the possibility of Sharepoint being used for a course management tool (a light weight version of WebCT or Blackboard). This project explores what capabilities and limitations Sharepoint has as a course resource, and is concluding that it might rival CTLT's retired Bridge system, but it lacks the full functionality of WebCT or Blackboard. A preliminary experiment (done by CTLT ca March 06 and presented at the IT Forum) demonstrates that a Sharepoint site can fairly well replicate the features in a course previously delivered via The Bridge. Contact Nils_Peterson@wsu.edu for a demo/ our current thinking.
MySite - an Electronic Portfolio
Sharepoint portal supports a concept of "My Site" which is a collaborative website owned/ managed by each user. CTLT has recognized that these spaces are not tied to a course and could span a student's experience at WSU, in and out of class. As such, they could serve as a repository, and presentation space, for a student's learning portfolio. Also, users can create, and permission, team sites (WSS) subordinate to their MySite. These could be used for student team collaborations in courses. Finally, since the user can configure the MySite for a variety of audiences, and can use WebParts for displaying RSS, MySites play into the discussion of Web 2.0 (another topic at the IT Forum). Contact Nils_Peterson@wsu.edu for a demo/ our current thinking.