A conversation on Alfresco Repository, Mahara, Mediawiki
Vicki and myself caught up with David Gilchrist, Dianne Van Berlo and Don Tainsh of New England Institute in Adobe Connect this morning to have a look at Alfresco - The Open Source Repository to which Dianne’s feedback on it’s features were along the lines:
Gosh this makes me excited for a Monday morning!
Yes Alfresco is well worth a look and integrates with Moodle 2.0 out of the box. I easily installed the application on my computer to show during the meeting, check out the recording you’ll have to fast forward to 17 min to see the demo though. Some things shown and discussed where:
- Alfresco’s easy to use clean interface
- Smart Spaces with Alfresco Share
- Auditable Content, Simple Check-In/Out and Version Control
- Easy Workflow Management
- Categories including tagging
- Permalinks to files
- File format conversion to Flash format (.swf) of uploaded media files to solve bandwidth limitations
- Easy File management (like Windows explorer) to upload files
- Tight integration with Moodle, Sharepoint and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to manage public private digital rights and licensing for different types of content.
- Federated search capabilities, ability to search simply across multiple
- Alfresco repositories and external wikis (Including Mediawiki), blogs and news feeds
Based on initial feedback I think it would be interesting to get teachers to trial the product as part of the Virtual Learning Environment project.
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