How to Organise Class Sites for SharePoint Learning Kit – Use a site per...
The posts in this series on how to organise class sites for SharePoint Learning Kit are: The Basics Using a Single Site, Don’t do it Use a Site Per Class or Teaching Group (this post) Hierarchy of the...
View ArticleHow to Organise Class Sites for SharePoint Learning Kit – Hierarchy of the...
The posts in this series on how to organise class sites for SharePoint Learning Kit are: The Basics Using a Single Site, Don’t do it Use a Site Per Class or Teaching Group Hierarchy of the Class Sites...
View ArticleSharePoint Learning Kit 1.5.2 Released
I’ve just released SharePoint Learning Kit 1.5.2. This is a bug fix release and contains fixes for: Configuration Link in Central Administration for SharePoint 2007 Enumerating Domain Groups This is...
View ArticleDebugging the SharePoint Learning Kit Frameset and SCORM Interactions
This post is for SCORM tool and package developers rather than the users of SLK. If you need to see the interactions between a SCORM package and the SharePoint Learning Kit frameset there is a debug...
View ArticleSharePoint Learning Kit 1.6 Beta Released
I’ve just released SLK 1.6 to Beta on the CodePlex site. This has actually been ready to go for a while, several months in fact, but I haven’t managed to find the time for documentation of the new...
View ArticleScripting SharePoint Learning Kit Permissions with PowerShell
If you are using SLK with more than a few sights then provisioning the permissions becomes either very time consuming or impossible by hand. A typical UK secondary school will have between 700 to 1500...
View ArticleSLK 1.7 Has a Pluggable Architecture for Domain Group Enumeration
I’ve just finished adding a new feature to SLK 1.7 which allows the Domain Group Enumeration of members to be swapped out for an alternative implementation. This is pretty much an edge case, which...
View ArticleSLK stsadm commands Added in 1.7
In SLK 1.7 I have deprecated slkadm by adding equivalent stsadm commands. These work in the same way, but have the advantage of not needing a separate executable distributed. As SLK runs on 2007 &...
View ArticleConfigure Web Applications in SLK 1.7
As of SLK 1.7 I’ve added the ability to configure the SLK mappings at a web application level as well as at a site collection level. This allows site collections in a single web application to share...
View ArticleHow To Enable The SharePoint Learning Kit Feature On All Sites In A Site...
Sometimes you want to be able to assign work from anywhere within your site collection. For the E-Learning Actions custom action to be added to a document library you need to enable the SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint Learning Kit 1.7 Beta Released
I’ve now released SharePoint Learning Kit 1.7 beta release. There’s lots of changes, but the biggest, and most anticipated one is support for SharePoint 2013. This release support SharePoint 2007, 2010...
View ArticleSharePoint Learning Kit 1.7 and the Ribbon
As the final item new feature to go into SLK 1.7 I’ve added SLK controls to the ribbon. Each of the 3 features which add a command to the drop down control, now also adds the same command to the...
View ArticleSLK 1.7–Assignment List Web Part now works on iPads
I’ve just completed some work ensuring that the Assignment List Web Part works on iPads. Before the work it would only show the results pane as below. And now it displays both panes: There’s 2 minor...
View ArticleSLK 1.7 – Option to automatically select all instructors and/or learners when...
I’ve just added 2 options to SLK settings to enable automatically selecting all instructors or learners when creating a new assignment. The options are: SelectAllInstructors SelectAllLearners The valid...
View ArticleSLK 1.7 Finally Released
I’ve finally got round to releasing SharePoint Learning Kit 1.7. There’s lots of changes, but the biggest, and most anticipated one is support for SharePoint 2013. This release support SharePoint 2007,...
View ArticleSLK 1.8–Option to turn off emails to Instructor when Learners submit
In SLK when creating an assignment there is an option to send emails to users about assignments. The option is a check box on the assignment properties page labelled “Email learners on creation or when...
View ArticleSLK 1.8 – Option to automatically check email learners box when creating new...
In SLK when creating an assignment there is an option to send emails to users about assignments. The option is a check box on the assignment properties page labelled “Email learners on creation or when...
View ArticleSLK 1.7.1 Released
A bug fix release for SLK 1.7. The zip file contains versions for SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013. Changes include: Handle @ in a user name for drop boxes Handle css for SCORM packages in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint Connect 2014 and SharePoint Saturday UK
This month I’m going to be at a couple of conferences: SharePoint Connect 2014 and SharePoint Saturday UK. If anyone else is going I’d love to meet up and discuss SharePoint, SharePoint Learning Kit...
View ArticleSend Reminder Emails with SLK 1.6 and above
SLK has the built in ability to send reminder emails to learners for assignments, but, there is no built in a way to run this. However, there is a sample project in SLK\Samples\ReminderEmails which...
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