Europe's Largest Public Education Portal Goes Live on the Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0 to Over 46,000 Teachers and Students
08 January 2004 - 7:35AM
PR Newswire (US)
Europe's Largest Public Education Portal Goes Live on the Plumtree
Corporate Portal 5.0 to Over 46,000 Teachers and Students New
Version of mySchool! e-Learning Portal Empowers Local Schools to
Build Over 2,800 Classroom and Subject Applications Within One
Enterprise Web Framework SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software
today announced that the Luxemburg Ministry of Education has
upgraded its mySchool portal, believed to be Europe's largest
e-learning portal, to the Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0, Content
Server 5.0 and Collaboration Server 3.0. The Luxemburg Ministry of
Education is launching a national campaign to encourage pupils to
utilize the portal, now called New Generation mySchool, through a
publicity drive, newsletters, advertisements and a weekly primetime
television program dedicated to the New Generation mySchool!
Originally launched in 2002, mySchool! enables online communities
of pupils, teachers and education providers across Luxembourg to
search, communicate, collaborate and create content online, in an
environment which is both intuitive and secure. For over a year,
the Plumtree-powered portal has delivered content, tools and a
collaborative learning environment to 36,000 primary and secondary
school pupils and 10,000 teachers across the country. The
deployment also allows pupils to access resources via the portal
remotely, helping ensure that disabled children and those with
learning difficulties who are not able to attend school have the
opportunity to obtain an integrated education. Today's announcement
of New Generation mySchool! builds on this initiative, providing a
range of new features made possible the Plumtree Corporate Portal
5.0 and the Plumtree Enterprise Web technologies including: 1)
Decentralized and flexible management of content and users Using
Application Spaces, new in 5.0, mySchool administrators manage
applications in separate domains, each with a separate audience and
a separate set of administrators. This separation gives them the
ability to distribute administrative access to individual sections
of the portal, reducing management burden on the Ministry while
maintaining portal-wide security. Individual schools now have the
administrative power to create their own local view and content for
the mySchool! portal. 2) More personalized views of mySchool! An
enhanced personalization engine in the Plumtree Corporate Portal
5.0 determines which applications each user sees, the scheme that
controls his or her navigation and the branding of the start page.
As a result, different types of users from different communities
get a completely different experiences of the mySchool! portal
based on the applications relevant to them. 3) Ability to build
subportals for schools and classrooms Using the subportal
functionality of 5.0, administrators can build separate
applications that each have their own security, branding and
functionality, yet can all be managed through one central console.
Thus school portals, classroom portals and subject portals can
effectively function as separate portals- built and personalized by
schools and teachers, but upgraded and grown by the Luxembourg
Ministry of Education through one unified framework. The Luxembourg
Ministry of Education estimates that up to 80 sub-portal
communities will be established within each school representing
classes, subject areas and interest groups creating a total of
2,800 sub-portal communities across mySchool! Luxembourg. Local
Content Management Designated mySchool! content maintainers at each
school will be responsible for the management of these local
communities and applications. Using Plumtree's Content Server,
content maintainers without Web programming skills can create,
validate and publish content across their local mySchool! portals
in a controlled, consistent way. The Ministry of Education has also
developed a light version of Content Server, Smart Content Server,
to enable pupils to intuitively create and publish content locally.
Daniel Weiler, project manager at mySchool!, welcomes New
Generation mySchool since 5.0 reduces the management burden on the
Ministry by allowing it to distribute administrative
responsibilities while keeping each school's content secure.
"Today, schools will be able to create their own localized versions
of mySchool!, and Plumtree's Corporate Portal 5.0 will also support
the creation of mySchool! communities within individual schools,"
said Weiler. "The creation of personalized and localized content is
vital to ensuring that pupils regard the mySchool! portal as a
principal source of relevant information, advice and tools to
support their education." mySchool! is part of the wider European
Schoolnet initiative -- the international partnership of 23
European Ministries of Education to promote e-learning. The
European Union specifies that by the end of 2003, all pupils should
be digitally literate by the time they leave school. Plumtree's
portal framework has been central to meeting this requirement.
Charlie Abrahams, Plumtree's European Managing Director, described
the mySchool! roll out as a marvelous showcase for the Plumtree
Enterprise Web Suite. "The figures speak for themselves -- 2,800
e-learning communities spread across the country managed locally,
but based on a single, open platform. MySchool! is as rigorous and
demanding as any traditional corporate application and represents a
tremendous example of portal technology being used to its full
potential." About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the
Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a
comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners
across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work
together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of
integration products for bringing resources from traditional
systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration,
content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to
broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services
Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and
systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing
technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen
countries, Plumtree has licensed over 550 customers, including
Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.
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