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(Unverified)Dec 11th 2008 11:14AM

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With her being an educator, I would recommend the Moodle project, a course management system (a replacement for the BlackBoard system). Hand out assignments to the class, distribute grades, collect assignments.

Ubuntu is a great starting point for someone in her situation. OpenOffice has not let me down, hell, it's even saved my ass when I couldn't open files with Microsoft Office 2003 (they were Microsoft Office 2007 files!!)

Hopefully, she can learn there is ALWAYS an alternative to purchasing software.

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(Unverified)Dec 11th 2008 11:23AM

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EDUBUNTU!!!

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(Unverified)Dec 11th 2008 11:29AM

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Not to rag on OO, but was as downloading the convertor from MS too difficult? I know Office 2003 instructed me to do so upon attempting to open a 2007 file. The process could have been streamlined a little better, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Either way, the conversion is not always the most accurate.

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