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Microsoft Sharepoint

Microsoft Sharepoint. What is it? How does it work? Where does it fit in the grand plan? . Example of a sharepoint page. Web Mediated Collaboration. Teachers, admin, support staff, students need to collaborate via the web. Free access front and back end is not enough

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Microsoft Sharepoint

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  1. Microsoft Sharepoint What is it? How does it work? Where does it fit in the grand plan?

  2. Example of a sharepoint page

  3. Web Mediated Collaboration • Teachers, admin, support staff, students need to collaborate via the web. • Free access front and back end is not enough • Dangerous, chaotic, insecure, and too difficult • Some new pathways, short cuts, and restrictions can make this work. • Sharepoint, moodle, google, facebook, myspace, ….

  4. Balance: Flexibility vs Security Reliable storage, including version control, can also be incorporated in this system. Version control complements reliable storage. But less so when it is app-centric, as in Office. Document locking, not shared access.

  5. Workflow: the document view, example: an exam Can we guide the flow of a document – eg generate messages? Yes. Can we prevent invalid pathways? Don’t know. Do changes to the documents affect the path? No. Support for forms? Partial. Need infopath?

  6. Workflow: assessment vs study book Contrast: Study Book under devt for 100+ hours.. Assessment: < 10 minsat most! Assessment is so complicated, it is hard to cater for it in any general purpose CMS. These documents are transitory, not content.

  7. Workflow: the person view The person-path tends tobe chaotic, and perhapsnot relevant. Or maybe we just don’t pay it enough attention?

  8. Sharepoint: what is it, really? • Web Server • Delivers web pages based on documents, scripts, and database content • SQL Database • Contains info about documents, users, projects (?), groups of users (?), pages • Scripts • Provides flexible delivery of content to pages; mostly built in, but can be crafted. • Documents • Users in groups, and have access rights and restrictions. • File locking and version control (app-centric). • Version Control • Provided by individual applications. Microsoft only. Less secure. Version control is Not Mandatory ?! • Workflow • Weakly supported; • Can work with Microsoft InfoPath. Excludes users of firefox and linux (and mac?). Sharepoint leverages theMicrosoft desktop and Infopath Leverages sharepoint.

  9. Sharepoint’s paradigm • The server is on the desktop • Not exclusive to sharepoint • Similar to google’s net computer paradigm • Opposite emphasis.

  10. Alternatives to Sharepoint • For teaching material: • Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, …, ICE. • Content Management Systems • More than 100 free and commercial CMS. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems • Drupal, mambo – both use apache, php, mysql. We need more than one CMS. Context dictates usage. Compare: study book vs assignment.

  11. Alternatives: ICE, shpt, moodle, svn

  12. Conclusions • Sharepoint is a sort of CMS-light. • Flat learning curve for users. • Ideal for management document collaboration. • Leverages existing paradigms. • Microsoft-only discourse re-inforced. • Local expertise may be discounted. • Weak support for customization, eg workflow. • Beach-head for Microsoft Infopath.

  13. Conclusions: 2 • Users can use more than one CMS at once. • The choice of CMS should be tailored to the workflow patterns, pathways, and performance objectives of the work it serves.

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