[Offtopic] fwd: Joomla

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

At 07:14 AM 26/05/2007, Rob Ruberry wrote:

Schools in Queensland now have the option of using Joomla (an Open Source 
Content Management System) for their website solution.  

We are extremely lucky in that we can request an installation and it is 
all setup, installed, backed up and maintained centrally.  The only thing 
we have to do is learn how to use it and inservice our teaching staff to 
support their use with in the school.

Joomla provides schools with the following features:

• Multiple users can add news and content items (set content expiry date)

• Security settings (Public, Registered, Special)

• Gallery management Component (upload, download, modification – images / 
video / documents)

• Calendar Component (add, edit, delete)

• Site templates (individual users can customize the look of the site)

• Polls (users can vote on various topics)

• Customised module positions.

The Education Queensland Installation has been customised to be managed 
centrally and this suits the majority of schools. 

You’ll find information and a list of school examples at our Joomla 
Support site - http://ictlic.eq.edu.au/wcmss/ .  

I have been running our school site at Banksia Beach for the past 2 years 
and have been extremely happy with its ease of use and the ability to 
delegate tasks to staff and admin members http://bankbeacss.eq.edu.au and 
the feedback from parents and community members.  Best of all content has 
an expiry date so I don’t have to worry about removing old content all 
the time.

You’ll find details on Joomla in general at the main Joomla site – 
http://www.joomla.org There are a large number of add on components and 
modules written by third party programmers interested in supporting Open 
Source Software.

 There are range of Content Management Systems out there, many of which 
are Open Source (Free for use and free for code development).

You don’t need to have any programming knowledge to use Joomla.  You will 
however find you’ll need to spend some time initially to gain an 
understanding of how it operates.

 There are a number of security levels associated with Joomla.  You can 
have students add content or upload work to the site but I generally 
wouldn’t recommend this for security reasons.

Anyway all the best with your site,

Rob Ruberry

Thinking Digitally Project Officer 

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Joomla Support: http://ictlic.eq.edu.au/wcmss/ 

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Cheers all ..
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia