{"id":1947,"date":"2016-08-02T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:17:18","slug":"change-to-e-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/change-to-e-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Change to e-groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received notification, a few days ago, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupspaces.com\/\">GroupSpaces <\/a>was changing its pricing model, and phasing out its free service. My team met today to discuss what (and how) to migrate to a new service.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning to use <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.groups.yahoo.com\/neo\">Yahoo Groups<\/a>. So, we will create new groups on that service. But we&#8217;re taking the opportunity to review and rationalise the groups. For example, we will create <strong>one<\/strong> group for school teachers and <strong>one<\/strong> group for college lecturers, rather than lots of separate groups for various qualifications. If you&#8217;re a member of any of our groups,\u00a0Aneta will write to you in the near future to let you know that the group is closing and what new groups have been created.<\/p>\n<p>The team have been using online groups for almost 15 years now, starting with E-Groups (in 2002) and including Smartgroups and Groupspaces. All of the services have, eventually, closed or started charging. I hope that you chose to migrate to one of the new groups. Online groups are part of a range of online services (which include this blog and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yammer.com\/sqacomputing\/\">Yammer<\/a>) that the team operate in order to support the delivery of SQA qualifications in centres.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for a message from Aneta in the near future about the arrangements to migrate to the new groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received notification, a few days ago, that GroupSpaces was changing its pricing model, and phasing out its free service. My team met today to discuss what (and how) to migrate to a new service. We&#8217;re planning to use Yahoo Groups. So, we will create new groups on that service. But we&#8217;re taking the opportunity to review and rationalise the groups. For example, we will create one group for school teachers and one group for college lecturers, rather than lots&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}