Mark Dunkel

Pushing Departmental Announcements to Students - Appointlink

2009-03-20T23:15:08Z

Customers often ask about how they can push departmental announcements to student homepages. Using SharePoint audiences customers can target specific content to a particular group on their SharePoint sites. In this demo, Appointlink shows us how they have extended this functionality by providing the interface for departments to post specific messages directly to a student audience home page in SharePoint....(read more)

SharePoint LMS Course Management - AppointLink

2009-03-20T23:13:57Z

I wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard customers ask about LMS solutions being developed on SharePoint. Almost immediately people see how the rich feature set of SharePoint could be extended for LMS style solutions. In this demo, Appointlink walks us through an example of how their solution can be used by faculty to manage classes provisioned via the SIS system, send student announcements/email, review homework submitted, and be able to re-use content from previous semesters. I love seeing...(read more)

SharePoint LMS Student Home Page - AppointLink

2009-03-20T23:12:20Z

Looking for inspiration for a SharePoint Student LMS landing page? Look no further. In this demo, Appointlink walks us through the student home landing page they have developed complete with relevant links/information, event, groups/sites, and course information. The course information can be pulled from a variety of student information systems including Peoplesoft, Banner, Datatel, home-grown, etc......(read more)

SharePoint LMS Seating Chart - Appointlink

2009-03-20T23:10:10Z

This is cool demo by AppointLink that allows an instructors to build a seating chart tied with student photos by course. The solution ties in with the SIS system, which makes it easy for instructors to only return the appropriate students per course for quick builds of the seating chart. Once the SIS information is available to SharePoint the solutions are really up to your own imagination. Very cool indeed! This is particularly important for Law Schools teaching in a socratic method. Note - there...(read more)

Independent SharePoint 3rd Party Product Reviews

2009-02-25T18:53:16Z

With so many SharePoint Partner building solutions on the platform it come sometimes make your head spin keeping up. Check out this web site for 3rd party product reviews. SharePoint Product Reviews...(read more)

Another FREE resource for SharePoint How To Videos

2009-02-12T17:27:33Z

This is a great resource to add to your End User SharePoint training toolbox. Simply think to the site or video from your SharePoint Support site. End users can access this information 24/7, which may help in minimizing the training burden on your IT Staff. http://www.sharepointhosting.com/video_tutorials.html Video Instruction includes: Adding Documents to a SharePoint Site Create a new SharePoint Site Collection Administrator Add Links to a SharePoint List Add SharePoint Site to your Trusted Sites...(read more)

Copy/Bulk Move in SharePoint

2009-02-06T18:43:13Z

At times you may need to copy/bulk move some SharePoint content around. This cool solution from MetaVis Technologies allows you to do just that...and much more. MetaVis Technologies...(read more)

Network File Share Webparts

2009-02-06T18:25:58Z

Many customers have asked for Network File Share Webparts that would provide access to their shares directly within SharePoint. The file shares can either be displayed using a traditional web application or via web folders (WEBDAV). Special thanks to Mike "Mick" Robeck at Tallahassee Community College. TCC has developed some very exciting solutions on SharePoint, including integration with Blackboard and their mainframe system for students. They also have a robust Intranet leveraging forms,...(read more)

Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit Platforms

2009-02-06T18:13:49Z

Many customers have been waiting for the Adobe 64-Bit iFilter to be produced. This makes it possible to search within Adobe PDF documents being crawled by the SharePoint Search Engine. At last here it is... Adobe PDF 64-Bit iFilter...(read more)

Scanning, Storage, and Archiving with SharePoint

2009-02-06T18:07:53Z

Many customers are unaware that SharePoint has some excellent partners who specialize in Scanning, Storage, and Archiving large volumes of data. Below, I've listed some of these partners: http://www.knowledgelake.com/ http://bluethreadinc.com/ http://www.clearviewecm.com/ https://www.onbase.com/English/Products/Integrations/MicrosoftIntegrations/SharePoint More partners can be found here: PartnerPedia...(read more)

SharePoint Conference 2009

2009-02-06T17:58:18Z

Microsoft is delighted to announce SharePoint Conference 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19-22, 2009. Don’t miss your chance to attend the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies! SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the conference to learn about SharePoint “14”. Be the first to learn about the improvements we’ve made to the platform and how many of those investments can be quickly implemented...(read more)

FREE SharePoint Developer and Search Training

2009-02-06T17:51:31Z

There is some very good new developer training available and it is completely FREE. With over 12 hours of content these modules cover: Developing Solutions on the SharePoint Platform Web Parts Page Navigation Page Branding Data Lists Web Services Event Handlers Content Types and Site Columns Workflow User Management Silverlight Deployment The Search Training has over 18 hours of in-depth technical training, including: Introduction Enterprise Search Overview SharePoint Search Walkthrough Search Architecture...(read more)

SharePoint EDU examples over the pond (UK)

2008-10-27T18:13:00Z

SharePoint provides so much functionality right our of the box. How you combine these feature to solve your specific EDU challenges can be an art unto itself. If you are looking for inspiration and ideas check out what some of our friends are doing in the UK. Providing value to parents, students, faculty, and staff is very powerful. These sites leverage the learning gateway framework. http://www.the-kraal.com/Gallery/index.htm...(read more)

I'm a Loser!

2008-09-25T21:37:54Z

Some people just shouldn't bet. Particularly when your not very good at golf. You see this post was conceived on the golf course. That ever elusive pastime that married men with kids can certainly relate too. Recently, my good pal Jeff Nuckolls (Nucks) and I decided to head out to The Preserve Golf Course , very nice I might add, up here in Michigan. The bet was simple...whoever lost had to blog about the great performance of the victor. This is silly but here goes... First, let me introduce you...(read more)

I'm A PC

2008-09-19T18:46:46Z

And I am passionate about Education and preparing our kids for the global economy! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/windows/videoGallery.aspx ...(read more)