Richard Willis – SharePoint Learning Kit Coordinator, SalamanderSoft Owner

Alex Pearce has worked hard to get a Learning Gateway User Group up and running and it’s now live at http://www.learninggateway.net/. It’s all about the use of SharePoint in education, not just the CodePlex Microsoft Learning Gateway. So if you’re in education and using SharePoint, get yourself over there and register, and we can build a vibrant community and help everyone improve their gateway.

How do I see this in relation to the SLK & LG discussion forums?

I think that they compliment each other. I would see the CodePlex forums for more technical issues, mainly around problems with the typical user being the SharePoint administrator. Then the Learning Gateway User Group would be more about best practises, getting other application integrated and how to use it, with the typical user being more along the line of a VLE manager or user.

I’ve updated the components of the MLG which depend on SLK to use the latest version (1.3.1). You can download these from the MLG 1.1 release page. This had been one of the biggest bugbears of the SLK & MLG projects, the fact that they were not in sync. Not that there’s convergence again we should be able to keep them in sync.

Please let me know if there work for you.