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Vision: A branded Learning and Collaboration environment, including..
- A Moodlecommunity-based supported course management component
- A coherent, complimentary, and secure set of tools for asynchronous and real-time collaboration:
- within DLC's and classes
- across DLC's and classes
- for extra-Institute collaboration -- including access for the extended community (non-MIT colleagues, alumni, the world)
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The 'Stellar' Content and Collaboration environment is recognized Institute-wide as a suite of powerful, reliable, and easy to use services.
- a Moodlecommunity-based supported course management system is in production
- preserves and builds on level of functionality currently available in Stellar
- each course site is provisioned with components from the C and C suite (discussion forum, blog, etc)
- Clearspace Teamspaces is in production and serves as the core platform for Enterprise level collaboration and social networking functions. Includes:
- Discussion forums
- Blogging
- Document-based collaboration
- Social networking
- ad-hoc Web conferencing service is in place (e.g. dim-dim); pluggable in Clearspace Teamspaces and Wikis
- ad-hoc video conferencing - service is in place (e.g. extension of Openfire)
- Instant Messaging (Openfire) remains in production
- QuickPages is in production providing easy web page production for the community
- Digital media management - Thalia is in production
- @Stellar has expanded to be a general-purpose content and collaboration portal
- Enterprise Google search includes secure search across components
- Components are accessible from mobile devices
- Enterprise search (Google) includes secure search across all components of the Stellar Content and Collaboration environment
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- QuickPages is in production providing easy web page production for the community
- Digital media management - Thalia is in production
- Thalia back end services are consumed by other applications like Moodle and the LMS
- Thalia goes open source and is further developed by outside community
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