Faculty Web presence grows with Enfold Server, Proxy

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Using in-house resources and Enfold Systems’ commercial distribution of Plone, the Houston Community College System has developed a user-friendly content management system that has increased faculty-member Web presence tremendously, according to a case study published this week on Plone.net.

The case study explains how Enfold Server and Enfold Proxy give the college system the benefits of both open-source and commercial software. Web developers get the open-source flexibility of Plone, while Windows-trained administrators get a system they’re comfortable maintaining.

“We got to the point where we reached critical mass with the Zope server,” says instructional Web designer Jordan Carswell. When he asked the college’s Windows-trained technical support staff to set up a proxy server using Apache, “They looked at me like: 'Why are you giving us more work to do? We're not trained in any of these things.'”

Learn more about how the college successfully empowered faculty members to make their course resources available online: