Saturday, 4 April 2009

AQA does know about open source!


Although open source does not appear in any of AQA's teaching material, Optaros have helped AQA to deploy an Intranet solution using open source software.

The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) was interested in creating a new Examiner Extranet platform to provide examiners and moderators with online access to exam papers and related documentation. The extranet would provide a simple way to obtain information more quickly, at a lower cost, and with a higher degree of security than AQA's standard paper processes.

Optaros worked in partnership with AQA to build the Examiner Extranet using open source components, including Alfresco JBoss Portal Server, EnterpriseDB and CAS Single Sign-On.

You can read the full case study here.

1 comments:

griffin.o said...

University of Cambridge International Examinations, which like OCR is part of Cambridge Assessment, certainly knows about Open Source. Our websites are based on Zope, served by Apache, and we also use Moodle to deliver online teacher training.