Vista and Office and the SharePoint Learning Kit
My team has been manning the technical helpdesk this week at the BETT show at Olympia. More than 30,000 Teachers, Network Administrators, ICT Administrators, Headmasters, and some very strange unidentified people wandered around for 4 days. Microsoft had a huge stand with booths showing demos of all the products, a theater auditorium and a help and support area. We were there to answer any technical (or not!) questions that came to us and to show people to the amazing resource called the Sharepoint Learning kit.
This SLK is an interesting add on to SharePoint 2007. It's on a community site so that learning partners can write modules to hook in to this, and community supported. It replaces Class Server and allows you to track e-learning modules so that you can check how your people are doing with their modules, you can manage your content, work out who is doing their training, and passing the tests. We have something very similar, in fact it's probably the kit that runs all of our internal training at Microsoft. It's certainly something to have a look at if you're building this type of content.
Anyway - back to the show...
Daftest question: "So what new software is Microsoft planning to bring out soon?"
Scariest question: "How do I get out of here?"
Nicest comment (after providing an answer): "Thank you. You've made the whole trip down here worthwhile just to get the solution to my problem"
Weirdest question: "So what do you do on this stand?"
Phew! I'm glad to be home now resting my aching feet!...