Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for bright, new, shiny objects. Today Rob and Claire from Microsoft came over to Hull and showed us Microsoft Class Server. It is very bright, and very shiny. OK, so it is is technically not an object, although I suppose that object oriented design technology was used in the creation of the system which means that .......

But I digress. If, for example, you were a lecturer at one of the premier universities in the UK, giving the grateful students the benefit of your wisdom and knowledge. Say you want to make your life easier in terms of deploying courseware, managing assessments and providing feedback to students. Then you are going to find Class Server very shiny indeed, because that is just what it does.

Basically, I want in. I'm so impressed that I'm going to test fly it on the shiny new, joke packed, C# module which I will be giving to those lucky enough to be selected for the first year of our course this year. What's more, I'm going to have a crack at extending it and adding some kind of Wiki-ness, which should also be fun and enhance the learning experience. I'll let you know what colour smoke I get...