At C2T2 we’re hoping to use uPortal as the portal software for a future version of BCcampus. We’ve wanted to get trained up in it and related technologies for quite some time, but couldn’t necessarily justify the costs to fly to Boulder or one of the other cities where the training has been hosted recently.
So we tried to organize it ourselves. And luckily got connected with the good folks at UVic’s library, who were both interested in the training and had the facilities to host it. They picked up the ball and ran with it, and now we get to attend some training right here in Victoria. Hooray! Why don’t you join us? uPortal is a more and more viable solution, especially in the higher ed context, and I’ve also had a promise from the folks at Unicon, the new parent company to IBS who deliver the training and are key uPortal participants, that they will show a bit of their Academus CMS product, a course management system that runs within a uPortal shell. – SWL