Plone in Higher Education

World Plone Day 2008Cambridge, MA

Michael Trachtman - Partner, Vercadia SystemsNate Aune - Founder, Jazkarta

Overview

Intranets

Directories and Bibliographies

Microsites

Online Courseware

Intranets

News and Event publishing - newsfeeds, calendars

Department landing pages

Important documents - policies, operating procedures, forms

FAQs

Access for staff *and* students

Intranets

Workflow and Access Control

•Simple workflows are often enough

•Security planning is important

Integration with user directories (such as LDAP)

•Biographical vs. Non-biographical data

Tools - FacultyStaffDirectory and CMFBibliography

•Access to directories through Public site

Directories

FacultyStaffDirectory

• Headed by WebLion group at Penn State University

• Faculty, Staff and Student Profiles

• Departments, Classifications and Committees

• Can be customized and integrated with central user directories (like LDAP)

• Extensible via SchemaExtender

Recent post-conference release (2.1) includes:

• Integration with bibliography plugin

• Refactored setup and improved documentation

• Bugfixes

Microsites

Universities often want to create separate web identities

•Schools

•Academic and Business Units

•Faculty

•Research Groups

Common elements

•Shared infrastructure

•Separate visual theme (but with adherence to university standards)

•Separate access control specifications

•Online procurement

Microsite Procurement

Microsites - Additional Examples

Microsites - Learn More

Kurt Bendl and Brandon Gaddie at 2008 Plone Symposium Easthttp://plone.tv/media/1099397685

Courseware

eduCommons

•Plone-based OpenCourseWare management system

•Helps develop and manage an open access collection of course materials

http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/adopters

Adopters

•College of Eastern Utah

•Wheelock University

•Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (Cuba)

•Korea University

•Kyung Hee University

•Novell

•...and many others

Resources

On the Web

•Plone.org - FacultyStaffDirectory, CMFBibliographyhttp://www.plone.org

•Plone.tv - “education”http://plone.tv/tagging/tags/education

• WebLion operates a Plone-for-education portal (primarily for PSU folks, but great general info)http://weblion.psu.edu/

• Plone.net - case studies

Events

• 2009 Plone Symposium East

May 26-29, Penn State University

http://weblion.psu.edu/events/plone-symposium-east-2009

Thanks!