OnlineGroups.Net
The ABEL eCampus is managed under contract to ABEL by
OnlineGroups.Net.
Online groups make it easy for people to hold conversations
and share information in groups, without meeting face to face.
OnlineGroups.Net
provides technology and services to start online groups and support participation in them.
They work with organisations, tertiary distance learning providers
and on edemocracy projects. Groups of any size can start their
own online groups site, and groups,
at http://onlinegroups.net.
You can contact the OnlineGroups.Net team for support with the eCampus:
The ABEL eCampus runs
on the GroupServer
collaboration platform developed by OnlineGroups.Net.
GroupServer
GroupServer is an open source Web Application server
that supports online collaboration using email groups.
It can be used to set up a website for hosting groups,
such as those at OnlineGroups.Net,
or as in the case of the ABEL eCampus.
GroupServer is highly customisable and has been extended to
provide the results functionality used on the eCampus.
It also supports surveys (used for eCampus Feedback forms
and reports) and content publication (used for eCampus News).
GroupServer is built using Zope, Python, XML, XSLT and CSS,
and to comply with open standards.
GroupServer is released under the open source GPL
license. The download, more information about GroupServer
and the project online groups are at
http://groupserver.org.