What do ICT directors in Australian education need?

Nextsphere Learning Environments

Nextsphere provides an education, content and scheduling environment running on its own virtual private server. It provides single-step password administration integrated with other Studentnet^® functionalities.

The Nextsphere Learning Environment is special because it is the integration of three powerful functionalities: Virtual Server, Learning System and Content Platform.

Virtual Server

Your own virtual server, hosted at the Semper.net™ professional data centre, allows for accessibility, convenience and flexibility, with Single Sign-On: an authentication link to your school's Active Directory/LDAP system, seamlessly integrated with other Studentnet^® services. A Nextsphere virtual server provides:

A completely customisable environment
Single Sign-On password administration
Disk capacity of 30 Gigabytes, increased to requirements
Memory capacity of 512MB, increased to requirements
Backups of your school's content taken every night
Image backups taken on request
Professional 24 hour, 7 day-a-week management, monitoring and maintenance of services and equipment

Learning System

Nextsphere provides Moodle - a popular open-source learning management system. It is used among educators around the world:

as a supplement to face-to-face courses
as a platform for conducting fully online courses
as a collaborative community tool, with forums, databases and wikis
as a compact education platform for small schools or a scaled deployment for many thousands of students

Content Platform

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Nextsphere offers you a choice of the world's leading content management platforms to keep track of every piece of content on your website, with almost no technical skill or knowledge required:

Drupal allows individuals or communities to easily publish, manage and organize website content, with dozens of freely available add-on modules.

Joomla enables people to build websites and powerful online applications, backed by a growing community of friendly users and talented developers.