[elearning] Student diaries

[Arnott, Suzanne S]

I am glad that the Ultranet is up and functioning well for you Roland...
We have not had very good support...we could not access our classes all of last year, and so far there is very poor functionality for us...when I put this to our Ultranet coach last year she said yes, we were one of the schools that seems to be having issues.... But was not able to do anything to support us in improving this... we were not able to get Learning tasks working at any level in 2011...very frustrating
I have already had staff trying to access classes this year... hoping for improvement... but alas only some classes and some students seem to be making it onto the system.... For now we are sticking with Moodle

But on the topic of your email.... Yay that is a great leap forward... I would have thought to run a trial perhaps to see the effectiveness of both systems....
Good luck
Suz

Suzanne Arnott
eLearning Leader
and VCE Textiles and Fashion Teacher
Sandringham College
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From: elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 9:19 AM
To: itapps at edulists.com.au; eLearning mailing list
Subject: [elearning] Student diaries

Apologies that the scope of this email is for Vic State Schools. I am still interested in your feedback. I was pleased to hear that our school has made the brave decision to go move forward and not issues paper student diaries. Just announced by the year level coordinator and some pleasing smiles by the students. Interesting ..

I was interested to see in the Ultranet, the deep integration with the calendar / events for organising and scheduling events. That is, when an assessment or learning task is created then it propagates the Ultranet student calendar with start and finish event dates. Importantly, it does the same for the Ultranet parent calendar and dynamically updates itself as tasks are modified by the teacher.  Another colleague just noted that using their Ultranet ePortfolio (explore space) would have some further interesting applications for reflective blogging about work and event recording.

I was surprised to hear yesterday that instead, consideration is being given to quickly deploy MS Outlook 2010 on all the student netbooks from year 7 to 12 (along with associated training and mandated use). I am unsure how fast or effective this will be, or if this is really practical considering the benefits of the Ultranet for a larger audience of parents and students.

I would like some feedback from other users of the Ultranet calendar system, especially in relation to how this compares with an MS Outlook Exchange based client system on student netbooks.

Brave and exciting world. :-)

Welcome to 2012

Regards Roland

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