Lancashire to provide learning web site

Lancashire County Council is using a content management system to run its new e-learning portal.

The council wants the system to help it appeal better to a youth audience and increase functionality.

The new site is expected to go live this autumn, and the council is examining two further areas for where it could use similar systems within its youth and community services department.

Janet Wilkinson, officer for children at Lancashire, says the new system will give the council significantly better value than trying to build an in-house system.

'We have been able to radically reduce our costs because 80 per cent of what we want is off-the-shelf, all we have to do is populate the website,' she said.

'The other benefit of the Jadu Galaxies system is that it meets government compliance requirements, freeing up our webmaster and editor to collate content. We don’t have to worry about anything else.'

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