Documentation:The History of Open Learning Platform at UBC

2004-2008

WordPress based, Campus Wide Login (CWL) enabled blogs.ubc.ca launched, over 700 users/blogs migrated from MovableType
Common Look and Feel (CLF) introduced by UBC Public Affairs
MediaWiki gets CWL and CLF treatment and becomes UBC Wiki - wiki.ubc.ca

UBC blogs gets new social homepage and social (buddypress) network
CTLT and PA partner and sites.olt.ubc.ca becomes UBC CMS and inherits PA’s cms.ubc.ca
Minimal WordPress Hybrid theme becomes the parent theme for most of CMS websites
Wiki Embed Plug-In developing allowing for UBC Wiki (MediaWiki) content to be embeded into UBC Blogs, UBC CMS (WordPress)

over 10,000 blogs and over 500 active, domain-mapped websites. Over 15,000 users of which over 12,000 students.
Continual improvement of our platform - the main developments:
- Solid back-end: partitioned mySQL to 256 databases; Both blogs and CMS have load balancer in front of 4 app servers and master/slave db servers.
- Extending our UBC CLF theme - almost all sites run on this theme - see manual
- Writing plugins to support UBC community, under CC license, over 200k downloads from Wordpress.org only!
- Established great user community through monthly larger clients' meetings, end users' support through open web clinics twice a week, community based UBC wiki documentation