[Typo3-marketing] Joint Edu effort

[Sander Vogels]

>What exactly should the software do?
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Current status:

- ability to work on projects as a group, like WIKI
- discussiongroups
- entry of own education material in the backend
- ability to set-up and create tests by teachers
- ability to create groups in the front-end (like a project group of 
students) and manage them
- ability to work on groupprojects without the other student being able 
to see your input
- Dropboxes: students can upload files for later use in projects
- Fileupload of projects, examns etc in the frontend to your individual 
user-environment but also the the teachers' envorinment
- Virtal meetingplace (no chat!) with email facility where you can mail 
all participants in your environment
- Weblog
- ability to add interesting links for a course
- ability to intergrate java applets
- ability to import existing courses to the new ELO
- Central Help-Desk with FAQ, online support etc


>Why do they want a new solution, if the above already do what they want?
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1. Blackboard is too expensive and the mentallity of the company sucks 
big time
2. All the different apps are not integrated, each demands it's' own 
login etc
3. They want to move towards open-source

>If it is about integration, how should the different functionalities
>interact? 
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You might be able to imagine a lot considering the demands I gave but 
for the definite Functional design I work with somebody from the 
Technical University Twente. This also has to be ready beginning of 
februari.

>Also crucial: How will the exact requirements be described?
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In a functional design that will be based on the input of the 100 
schools and has to be approved by them in an offical statement

Bye, sander