Abstract:
Having designed and maintained a web-based LMS for 15 years we find ourselves with access to more powerful servers, “cloud” based options , greater bandwidth and highly flexible, integrated development environments. It has been a very long time since a university’s administrative computing arm and the teaching and learning computer support groups could share the “biggest Swiss Army knife of information software that anyone has ever developed “ This paper describes the actual and potential use of SharePoint to radically change the services provided by standard LMS using the skills possessed by the average academic user.