Microsoft Learning Gateway
Overview for higher education institutions
Published: September 2, 2005
Bring the power of portals to your institution
The Microsoft Learning Gateway is a powerful education portal that enables the people throughout higher education to share information and work together on projects from a single point of access. The Learning Gateway uses innovative collaboration and communications technologies to help you get more out of your existing applications—using familiar tools and extending the value of your investment in Microsoft technologies.
Collaborate and share
Communication and collaboration are key elements for building communities. The Learning Gateway makes it easier for students and instructors to collaborate effectively, including the ability to:
| • | Share resources among students, lecturers, and administrators. |
| • | Create groups that can share content, view group calendars, and stay in touch using powerful Microsoft communications tools. |
| • | Save time and bandwidth by using the Learning Gateway as a shared repository for content-rich articles and other learning objects, instead of sending large files through e-mail. |
Build for your needs
The Learning Gateway can be configured to the exact needs of your institution—whatever its size, budget, and existing information systems. Its information-rich environment gives you:
| • | Role-based views of all relevant applications, documents, and learning resources. |
| • | Access to different areas of the system without repeated logins. |
| • | Control over what information you see and how it is organized. |
| • | A forum for sharing and promoting best practices. |
Deploy at your speed
Because it is a scalable and standards-based solution, you can deploy features of the Learning Gateway at your own speed. For example:
| • | Getting started: Use Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to establish a personalized, secure, managed, and collaborative learning community across your entire organization. |
| • | Evolving: Add Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 to create a real-time communications environment and to introduce real-time collaboration functionality to Microsoft and partner applications. |
| • | Advanced use: Integrate data from enterprise applications. Provide your people with self-service access to complete processes for admissions, recruitment, assessment, reporting, scheduling, and grading. Authorized users can also modify personal data in real time using just one Microsoft managed learning environment. |
Find help, innovations, and enhancements
Hundreds of innovative education solutions are available from a fast-growing network of Microsoft solution partners. These solutions can be quickly and easily integrated with the Learning Gateway environment. Thanks to the Learning Gateway standards-based architecture, you can encourage researchers and IT staff to enhance and add to existing solutions by creating custom applications or by selecting independently developed applications.
With these resources, you don't have to go it alone:
| • | Worldwide support community: Take advantage of a global support community dedicated to helping you get the most out of the Learning Gateway. Join higher education institutions from all over the world, sharing content, code, and best practices. |
| • | System integrator partners: Skilled partners are available to help you customize, build, and support your Learning Gateway environment. |
| • | Education support centers: Hosted by experienced universities, these centers of expertise offer support in your local language during local business hours. |
Take the next step: Contact a partner
Microsoft Learning Gateway partners are the key to your success with the Learning Gateway. Partners provide a range of integrated assessment, reporting, and analysis software and services. And partners are ready to help you build and deploy the right solution for your needs.
List of worldwide Learning Gateway partners
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