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I am looking for people and website examples for higher education. 

I have kept track of three *excellent* websites in my del.icio.us account. Does anyone know of other sites?

Newbold College < http://www.newbold.ac.uk/ >
Lincoln College at the University of Oxford < http://lincoln.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ >
Princeton < http://www.molbio2.princeton.edu/ >

Are any of you from higher ed planning, building or deploying Joomla! sites?

How important are WC3 standards and accessibility req'ts in your decision? Other prevailing issues?

And, are you also looking at Moodle integration? Any other integration issues?

Thanks!
Amy (University of Nebraska)

Greetings!

I'm also in the process of moving our college (http://www.prescott.edu) from 1800+ static pages to a CMS based siite. Joomla seems to be the best choice in CMS's so far. We're also looking heavily into Moodle integration. We'd like to tout a "full, open source solution" for higher education.

Here's a spiritual online seminary (http://www.scholadivina.com) also in development that is * sort of  * integrating Moodle at the moment. Authentication is not combined yet. Anyone have any experience with putting Moodle in a wrapper and KEEPING it there?

Also, while W3C standards are important to us, there are times when we'd rather have ease of use and aesthetics than perfect code.

You'll have to let me know how your search is going, maybe we can collaborate.

Peace!

AmyStephen wrote:How important are WC3 standards and accessibility req'ts in your decision? Other prevailing issues?
And, are you also looking at Moodle integration? Any other integration issues?

Hi Amy! I am not personally from the higher ed, but I have three clients from the educational sector. Yes, they would desperately want a Moodle integration. Right now, we just do into the code of Moodle in order to make it look like the template.

Re WC3 standards, funny enough, it doesn't seem to matter much to them.

Are you toying with the idea of Moodle bridge? I am very interested in this.

Our seminary (http://www.svots.edu) uses Joomla (sorry, can't really get into the exclamation mark) and Moodle.  We haven't really seen a need to integrate them yet, but I do believe I've seen posts here or on moodle.org about attempted integration projects.

That is a very nice site! (see? it is EASY to use the exclamation point. you just have to let yourself go. lol) What did you use for your Gallery?That is smoothest gallery integration I have seen. It is a nice sized site, too. And, perfectly constructed. Every little bit of it. The only thing that gives it a "Joomla!-look" at all is the icons for the print, pdf, and mail functions. Otherwise, you cannot tell. I had to look at the source.

I assume you are on 1.0.10 and have all security updates in place for any 3rd party issues?

Thanks for sharing your site. I am certain it serves those who use it well. Nicely done! 

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@chette -

My apologies! I did not see your post!  That is an interesting approach - innovative, actually - to integrate them visually rather than the code base. In this case, it would makes sense! You do not necessarily have to share usernames.

At the U of NE, there is some experimental looking at Moodle and a bit more intensive looking at Sakai (Java based LMS). I would indeed like to see a bridge working but, at this point, for instructional material from my department or myself, rather than the institution as a whole. We are still on Blackboard and conversion seems daunting at this time!

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Regarding the Bridge. This is the last information I have on its availability:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=17805
http://download.moodle.org/download.php ... moodle.zip

I also saw a security advisory on the bridge, recently, but oddly, now that I look, I only see it on the French Security site and not Secunia.

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/2939 - fix http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=83001 (although the Mambo site is down or something right now.)

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This is cool, MoodleZone, a webmagazine in Joomla! < http://playpen.monte.nsw.edu.au/newsletter/ >

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Take care!
Amy 

AmyStephen wrote:That is a very nice site! (see? it is EASY to use the exclamation point. you just have to let yourself go. lol) What did you use for your Gallery?That is smoothest gallery integration I have seen. It is a nice sized site, too. And, perfectly constructed. Every little bit of it. The only thing that gives it a "Joomla!-look" at all is the icons for the print, pdf, and mail functions. Otherwise, you cannot tell. I had to look at the source.

Thanks for the kind words.  I use Zoom for photographs.  It's rough around the edges, but works.