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Tiki as computer department management tool

I manage a brand new tiki powered website (started 08/03) for a graphic school computer department

Situation

The situation I and my three collegues are facing is the following:
60 PCs, 80 Macs, many softs, different printers (A4-A0), different cameras (analogic and digital) different scanners, different servers. We have a photography, earthwork and windowing department, a total of 300 students, 30 teachers, 30 guest teachers.
The hardware in the different departments is becoming more and more digital, whereas digital stuff was only in the computer department: that means many more hardware, many more interfaces, many more knowledges to grow and share.

Why an educational portal ?

• the amount of different tools and ways of doing makes it impossible for everybody to know everyting.
• many classes are project-based in a very free-form: students have to plan their workflow and be aware of the technical aspects of it.
• each year, about 100 students leave the school, taking along the "recipes" they set up, and are "replaced" by another 100 students who need to be taught everything.
• computers are tools that require involvment and self-teaching, this idea may be contrary to some of the principles of "education".
• color workflow is critical in here, and not the easiest thing to setup in a system with different scanners and printers.

more to come.