[Year 12 IT Apps] OT - Ultranet functionality

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Yes, all that money sailing off to an overseas vendor. I guess the world
needs some stimulating to get the economy moving and we are doing our part.
Given that only 20% of our families speak English at home, I will be
fascinated to know if Ultranet will be support most of the 40 languages (and
regional variations) that are used at our school.

Interesting that they abandoned the timetable system but retained a
reporting system. A more sensible approach would have been to pare things
back and encourage cottage industry applications to plug-in, agree on an XML
transport layer and just build a secure framework for private information.
Create a smaller Ultranet that could plug into Moodle / Studywiz / or other
learning management systems .. in a sense, do what CASES lacks. Make it
flexible, web based with an open API.

Regards Roland

2009/3/12 Hutchison, Geoffrey G <hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>

> Presumably all this from a centralized Data Centre in Melbourne.
>
> I'll believe it when I see it. Still bigger than Ben Hur.
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> Geoff
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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