[Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries

[Roland Gesthuizen]

No, I guess that students would need to copy over and update all the dates
or staff would need to verbally direct that they enter them into their
exchange calendar.

Anne, I have had some luck with the help desk getting answers to technical
questions and the online support pages (last icon, second option from the
bottom). It does look like that there have been some big improvements with
the Ultranet system over the Nov and Jan update cycle with the aims to
improve integration and parent / student communication.

Regards Roland

On 3 February 2012 09:30, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roland - do you know if the intention is that Ultranet calendar events
> would be pushed automatically to the studnets Exchange calendars? Or would
> they run as independent calendars?
>
> Ken
> Tasmanian eSchool
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College
>>
>> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
>> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
>> Mead
>>
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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
Mead
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