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

Brisbane 20th March

Deep Dive – A.B Paterson 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

Key Areas

School intranet solution

Managed Learning Environment

Learning object repository

Communication and collaboration platform

Document management system

Enterprise Search

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

Technology Stack

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.

SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Provides effective knowledge sharing through collaboration, news, surveys,

discussion boards,document libraries and enterprise search.

ISA Server 2006

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

aggregation of multiple servers into a single URL.

Exchange Server 2003 (Service Pack 2) or 2007

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

SQL Server 2000 (Service Pack 4) or 2005 Storage for SharePoint and Scholaris databases.

Scholaris at A. B. Paterson CollegePresented by: Dirk van Bruggen – Director of Learning Management

Brisbane March 20th

The Journey

BookIt Resource Booking System

Edukate Learning Management System

TIA Staff internet access

Student Café Student internet access

Parent Lounge Parent internet access

Staff Web In-house website / code

Student/Staff Network Drive Access to for files

Intranet Site Current web applications

GroupWise Email

Document Management Novell network drives

The Beginning

The Journey

People Provide access to students to education programs that provide a technology-rich experience and

environment for developing required skills and attitudes for lifelong learning.

Content Provide access for all students to quality digital education materials that support Australian school

curricula and optimise opportunities provided by new technologies for learning

Provide access to information to engage parents in supporting the learning of their children

Services Provide a single Portal for access to all resources and services

Provide a simple easy to use experience

Provide as much integration with other software as technically possible

Learning in an Online World

The Journey

Remove multiple web applications / software

Stop data errors due to multiple data bases

Ensure security of the site and control access

Enable access to digital resources anywhere / anytime

Ensure a consistency of “look and feel”

Implement an integrated “Learning Management System”

Facilitate the staff’s ability to create “Learning Repositories”

Maximise the integration with “Electronic Whiteboards”

Integrate to a single interface / product as much as possible

Integrate existing “in-house” software into the portal

Ensure the “Portal” is intuitive and easy to use

Gain easy access to the “Learning Federation Repository”

Our Outcomes

The Journey

Scholaris

(Share Point)

TASS (School Administration)

Students

Staff

Parents

Community

Document Repository

Learning Federation Objects

Resource Management

Calendars

Virtual Classrooms

Learning Management SystemOther Schools

Email

The Model

Scholaris

Look and Feel

Flexibility in the way information can be viewed

Targeted

Information

Quick Launch

for

common tools

Integration with Outlook

Integration with other databases

Scholaris

Common

tasks

in one

Portal

Integrated with other resources

and personal timetables

Easy to

navigate

Integration of tasks

Scholaris

Staff/Student

Timetables

Personal Calendar

Assignments

and Tasks

Planning Tools

Resource Bookings

Scholaris

Online Digital Repository

•Documents

•Images

•Forms

Integration with

Microsoft Office

•Word

•PowerPoint

•Excel

•Access

•Outlook

•One Note

Digital Resources

Scholaris

Student Information

Guardian details

•Custody

•Contact

•Multiple

Guardians

Email Teachers

Alerts

(Customisable)

Linked to

existing

Student

Database

Scholaris

Customisable templates for teachers to use

Staff, students and parents can access the information via the web

Intuitive to customise

using SharePoint

technology

Interactive

•Digital Libraries

•Other Websites

•Discussions / Blogs

•Wikipedia

•Tasks

•Surveys

•Calendars

•Class Notes (One Note)

Invite other classes and or groups to join the class

Virtual Classrooms (Websites)

Scholaris

Student and Parent Access

Students Parents

Student Portfolio

•Student Selections

•Teacher Selections

View the Student’s work online

The Journey

Training Workshops based on Faculty areas with practical hands on examples

Supporting documentation with detailed examples

On-line video help

Uptake 80% of staff use the Portal daily for all aspects of communication (eg email, documents)

Virtual Classrooms appearing in a range of areas within one month of the product release

New staff were using it within 1 week of arrival

Large amount of options / tools for staff to use (overwhelming some times)

Easy to navigate

Phased introduction Day to day options – email, notices, bookings student information

Virtual classrooms

Assignments

Learning Management System

Learning Federation

Staff Professional Development

The Journey

Support Follow through on logged issues

Phone and email support available

Enhancements

Ability to log requests for enhancements

Track progress of enhancement requests

Upgrades Planned upgrade path for the product

Customisation Portal can be easily customised using SharePoint Technology

Ability to add third party products (web parts)

Solutions I.T.’s Role

The Journey

Thank You

Phased Implementation Approach

Scholaris - Roadmap

Q2 2007

Student Reporting Engine

TLF Syncronisation

Enhancements to existing features

Q3 2007

Greater support for IMS/SCORM and SIF

Enhancements to existing features

Q4 2007

Attendance Upgrade

Early Learner Portal

Enhancements to existing features

Scholaris – Early Learner

Further Information

Solutions IT standHands on test drive

Scholaris Learning Gateway CD

Website http://www.solutionsit.com

Email sales@solutionsit.com.au

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.

www.solutionsit.com

Premier Partner