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Created By: Lorri Carroll
Latest Activity: May 1

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One day session on the Educational Aspects of First Class
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I negotiated with Kannon Communications to come to Greensboro Day School (Greenbsboro, NC) and conduct a full-day session on Using FirstClass in Education. The agenda includes: What FC Administrato... Continue

Started by Dana Smith. Last reply by Sue Werner Apr 30.

First Class v9
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Has anyone upgraded yet? How did it go? It is on our list of things to do on March vacation and I would love any information about the good, the bad and the ugly! THANKS! Lorri

Started by Lorri Carroll. Last reply by Art Monette Apr 29.

FirstClass 9.1 and Blogging
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With 9.1 it is possible to require authentication to view users' web pages, blogs and podcasts. I was able to get this all working today and we now will be able to safely and easily have students d... Continue

Tagged: authentication, blogging, firstclass

Started by Fred Bartels. Last reply by Patti Shayne Apr 14.

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Comment by Steve Taffee on May 1, 2008 at 9:59am: Brent - I think we're on the cusp of moving away from FirstClass ourselves. It seems to many of us here that while FC doesn many things ok, it does not do any one thing particularly well, apart from it acting as a one-stop shop for faculty who like drag and drop. Despite its recent changes to it UI, it still feels clunky and old-fashioned compared to other systems. FC Ed might mitigate that with its cool templates and wizards, but the pricing for FC Ed is to out of line with reality that it is not a player for us. We are currently investigating where we want to go with course management, FC, FinalSite (our web provider), Blackboard, Moodle, Drupal.... All the usual tradeoffs between build it or buy it. We're probably a year or more away from actually moving to another system, and we will experience some resistance due to personal and institutional inertia. So I think we'll start small with some teachers using a different CMS, and more web-based content instead of FC content. Yeah-I know FC can make web pages, but....

Comment by Brent Stimmel on April 16, 2008 at 10:35am: Has anyone moved their school away from Firstclass. We are planning to get rid of firstclass after using it for many years. Any advice on possible backlash?