Scholaris Learning GatewayPresented by: Justin Cantrill, Asia Pacific Regional Manager

Perth, 26th March

Deep Dive – Perth College

Strategies

Challenges

Change Management

Professional Development

Lessons Learnt

The Future

Objective of Scholaris

To assist teachers in engaging and

developing learners

Some of the Challenges facing Teachers

Time

Change Management

Access to information

Administration

Duty of Care

Engaging Students

Parent involvement

Professional Development

Access to Learning Content and Resources

Dependency on IT Department

What is Scholaris?

Scholaris is an enterprise framework and comprehensive set of

tools and applications that allow your whole school community

access to everything they need in one personalised place

Teachers

Students

Parents

School Executives

Administrators

1. School Intranet

1. School Intranet

2. Enterprise Search

3. Learning Object Repository

4. Communication and Collaboration

4. Communication and Collaboration

5. Document Management

6. Managed Learning Environment

PLANNINGConsiders all evidence,

Sets Target grouping and

Goals for new cycle of

Teaching and Learning

ASSESSMENTAssess assignment

submission - quantitative

and against Outcomes

goals, including

Discussion contributions

LEVELLING Considers Assessments

and other evidence to

apply a formal Level to an

Outcome for a

student.

COURSE

BUILDER

Plan and build

Courses to facilitate

the goals of the Profiler

ASSIGNMENT

MANAGERDistribute Course

activities or Quick

assign activities for

easy delivery of

lessons

6. Managed Learning Environment

6. Managed Learning Environment

Technology Stack

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Latest SP or R2)

Provides core functionality, such as Active Directory and Internet Information Services

6. Also provides Network Load Balancing, and Clustering technologies to improve

scalability.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Provides effective knowledge sharing through collaboration, news, surveys,

discussion boards,document libraries and enterprise search.

Microsoft ISA Server 2006

Provides reverse-proxy features, including single sign-on, link translation and

aggregation of multiple servers into a single URL.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (Service Pack 2) or 2007

E-mail, tasks, calendar, and public folder functionality.

Microsoft SQL 2005 Server Storage for SharePoint and Scholaris databases.

Perth College – Scholaris Learning GatewayPresented by: Peter Klemm, ICT Services Manager

Perth, 26th March

About Perth College

Anglican School for Girls

K – 12

1000 students, approx

Mature ICT Infrastructure

Expectation of staff proficiency in ICT

A Bit of History – to early 2004

Static Intranet Solution

Reliant on using Frontpage

Web design not a core skill for staff

Limited installed licences

Inconsistent “look and feel”

Rarely maintained – content out of date

No integration to other systems

Staff wanted something better

The Challenge…

Find something better!!!

What do we want?

Ease of use

Consistent look and feel

Reliable operation

Improved communications with students/parents

Integration with other systems

Single repository concept

The Vision…

ROLE BASEDAccess to components of the intranet

controlled by „user role‟ in a seamless and

transparent manner

Present relevant information to user

Students – past , present, future

Academic staff

Admin staff

Parents

Council

Other?

STATIC CONTENTGeneral School info

Subject specific

Course outlines & content

Revision materials

Past papers and solutions

Policies & procedures

Student showcase

Resources & Links

Overlap with external web site

Help / tutorial documents

DYNAMIC CONTENTAvailability of „portlets‟

Integration (eg Synergetic timetable)

Email, Calendar, Discussion groups

News (inc feeds from external sites)

Sports fixtures/results

Surveys (targeted based on role)

Student generated web pages

ePortfolios

Job Tracking (eg IT, Maintenance)

Resource Booking

File/folder access (inc from home)

TRAINING/PDRequirements?

Workshops

Class relief (ongoing?)

Curriculum Development

New teaching strategies

ICT Competencies

Online learning – what does/doesn‟t work?

Self assessment

Recognition of skills

Staff/Student buddies

PROCESSWhat needs to be done?

Impact on what we currently do

Why do it?

When should it happen?

Who will be involved? Students? Parents?

How will we implement it?

Student outcomes

Strategic importance

Experimentation / trialling

Review and evaluation

TECHNICAL ISSUESHardware/software requirements

Importance of integration (admin, library,

Novell)

Availability / reliability

Access (internal and external)

Internet connection speed (school & home)

Ongoing management

Content management – timed release of files

Single sign-on

Security issues

Privacy issues

Intellectual Property

ONLINE LEARNINGResource development

Discussion groups and forums

Collaborative projects

Learning Federation Objects

AISWA Learningnet

Digital Repositories

Frameworks & scaffolding

Curriculum delivery – changes to teaching

technique, content and resources

Distance Learning

Training materials (reference vs tutorial)

Assessing and reporting

OUTCOMESEnhanced student learning

Better teaching – best practice

Centralised information

Streamlined information distribution

Improved staff ICT competencies

Increased useability (cf Frontpage)

Enhanced School profile

School community involvement

Creativity and flexibility in learning environment

Access to information anytime, anywhere

PC email address for life

CURRENT SYSTEMLack of time to maintain

Requires skills in Frontpage

Web publishing is not core teacher skill

Limited access to Frontpage

Lack of understanding of process

Little awareness of benefits

Content no longer relevant

Content not always appropriate for home

access

Access from home has been intermittent

Options

Custom developed solution

Issues with cost ($100K+) and time (?? Years)

Off the shelf with modifications

Business oriented, not education focussed

Integration issues

Cost / time / resources

AISWA LearningNet

In development

Sounds promising

AISWA LearningNet

Proof of Concept (2004 T4)

6 x Staff and selected classes

Training

Trial Phase (2005 T2)

8 x Staff and larger range of classes

Keen Year 8s driving staff uptake

Rollout (2006 T2)

Upgrade to Version 2 in T1 and phase in

Staff presentation on PD Day at start of T2

Wow Factors!

Where are we now?

12 months after “Go Live”

Rapid Uptake by Staff

Minimal training required

Students helped drive implementation

Key staff in departments

Support on demand

90 collaboration sites within 1 term, now 146 in 10 LA‟s

Complete site restructure after 1 term

More closely aligned with school structure

Thank You

Phased Implementation Approach

Scholaris - Roadmap

First Half 2007

Student Reporting Engine

TLF Syncronisation

Greater support for IMS/SCORM and SIF

Enhancements to existing features

Second Half 2007

Attendance Upgrade

Early Learner Portal

Enhancements to existing features

Scholaris – Early Learner

Scholaris Learning Gateway – Special Offer

Solutions IT will subsidise a relief teacher

for 5 days to the value of $1250 for schools

purchasing Scholaris before June 30th 2007

and

A voucher for one individual to attend a one

day Scholaris group training session.

Further Information

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