We are close to releasing our K12 Template for the SharePoint Governance Kit.  We have been working with a number of school districts, understanding the way the students and teachers want to make SharePoint more flexible, incorporating our on-demand provisioning and dynamic site directory.  This has helped us refine our information architecture considerations and metadata model.  The metadata model is looking pretty portable across districts.   We will post some diagrams shortly, showing some best practices, to address:

• District \ School relationships
• School \ Grade \ Class relationships
• Student to Class / Club / Group relationships
• Student to Student relationships

Something that’s been very popular is the ability for Students to provision their own sites for Clubs, Teams and Groups.  This has enabled “On Demand” collaboration, inside the District’s governance policy.

One of the items we are close to releasing is the automated provisioning tool, to build out the information architecture based on the student / class register data file at the start of the school year.

Watch this space, and if you have an information architecture you have deployed at a school, feel free to post it here !