Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

MLG version of SLK to be updated



The Microsoft Learning Gateway 2007 components (www.codeplex.com/lg) include a version of the SharePoint Learning Kit (www.codeplex.com/slk) that has been updated to include the Observer Role (parent in Education context) and the ability to filter the contents based on the My Children connected web parts.

It has recently become apparent that the SLK version in MLG was based on the code branch from before the Version 1.1 release and has subsequently missed out on some of the key fixes including:

Compression fails for content with multiple levels – effectively the MLG version of SLK does not support a large number of SCORM Editors without this fix

64-bit support – MLG solution is currently only 32bit which is a problem when it is starting to become common practice to deploy 64bit solutions.

There is however some hope on the horizon, we have heard that it is planned to merge the code bases over the next few months so the MLG changes will be added back to the SLK code branch.

One thing is not clear is whether a multi-language pack will be created for MLG so that it falls inline with the SLK language support.   And if they are changing the MLG components making them work with Site Collections for School sites would be a nice to have out of the box :)

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