Too Many Interest Spaces...

A possible problem to consider:




While it is extremely easy to create Interest Spaces within the Learning Platform and hand over “Full Control” to the member of staff who asked for this space, there is a risk that individual staff will start to create their own sub interest spaces. Clearly, this presents its own difficulties both in terms of quality control and the effective delivery of information and communication within the Learning Platform.


Since members have no control over their membership within an interest space there is a risk that a student or staff member could find themselves a member of 40+ interest spaces. This could reduce the effectiveness of the core interest spaces and result in key information being loss within less important content (for example: if every news article added within these interest spaces are “targeted to members”, the News within My Space will become less effective).


There is also a risk of information duplication.




Information for the different Document Libraries:


Each of the created Interest Spaces will provide a document library, it is important to establish the appropriate content for these. In to which document library will you put each of these documents? For example: where might “letters and Notices” for parents be held, might these be better in the whole school document library or in Parental Space?