Re: [school-discuss] Site@School, CMS for primary schools, Version 2.1 released!

[Dirk Schouten <schoutdi@knoware.nl>]

At 17:32 31-3-04 -0800, you wrote:
>hi Dirk,
>
>Why is this only for primary schools?
>
>thanks--
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dirk Schouten" <schoutdi@knoware.nl>
>To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:55 AM
>Subject: [school-discuss] Site@School, CMS for primary schools, Version 2.1
>released!
>
>
>> This is an advertisment for OSS/GPL software.
>>
>> Site@School Version 2.1 released today!
>>
>> Site@School, the website content management system for primary schools has
>> many new features and improvements in Version 2.1.
>>
>> - THREE new modules: agenda, calendar and a formsbuilder module (*).
>> - Now available in 13 languages. Your colleagues in Spain, England, USA,
>> France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Brazil, Turkey, China
>and
>> Japan also use Site@School.
>> - Maximum of 99 homepages per pupil. Improved e-mail alerts for teachers
>> when pupils change pages.
>> - Every group in school can have it's own news pages.The intranet (only
>> accessible for teachers) can have it's own news pages.
>> - Simplified site management: every admin, teacher or pupil can manage
>> parts of the site with one username and password.
>> - Complete reorganisation of the site is made very simple.
>> - Teachers can manage their own classes and classes of colleagues.
>> - Improved installation for schools that do not have a server of their own
>> but use an ISP..
>> - Comprehensive manual with over 250 screenshots, describing every
>> operation in detail.
>> - A lively community with a Forum for your problems.
>> - Bugfixes, numerous small improvements, etc..
>> - See the complete list of features (link below).
>>
>> (*)
>> - These modules were already available: guestbook, e-mail, news, pupils
>> pages, picture gallery, up/download of files, forum, advertisments,
>> sitemmap, search.
>> .
>> NEW MODULES:
>> AGENDA: An agenda for everyone and every department: easy mangement of
>> multiple appointments in multiple agenda's, very intuitive usage,  fully
>> adaptable to the color scheme of your schoolsite.
>> CALENDAR: Multiple calendars, multiple ways of showing events, fully
>> adaptable to the layout and color scheme of your schoolsite.
>> FORMS BUILDER: Make your own forms on the site according to your
>> specifications.
>>
>> Siste@School remains Open Source Software, remains under the General
>Public
>> License, remains usable under Linux and Windows platforms and remains
>FREE.
>>
>> Kind regards and lots of easy site management,
>> The Site@School Team
>>
>> Links:
>> Site@School downloaden (Versie 2.1, user manual, etc.):
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/siteatschool
>>
>> Site@School homepage:
>> http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net
>>
>> Complete list of features:
>> http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net/index.php?section=7
>>


Hi Tim,
Thank you for your mail and question. Hope this answer clarfies:

To tell you a secrect :-), we think that S@S is also usable for other
organizations. In fact, we know that many organizations use S@S because
it's such an easy CMS. Even coders use S@S on Sourceforge sites because'"it
keeps us coding in our own project".We know of scout groups, churches,
individuals, companies, etc. that use S@S.

However, we develop S@S with primary schools in mind. In a primary school
our feet are 'in the mud', we daily experience the need for features, we
see our 'clever' solutions not functioning,  we see children use S@S and
get ideas, etc. etc.
And in our humble opinion, S@S might be useful in secondary schools.
Kind regards,
Dirk



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