Intradesk, finally workable
Every school team needs a workspace that is neither the messaging module nor Google Drive. Schoolwerking is that — flat structure with categories instead of folders, ACL per person or per role, and search-first navigation.
What breaks today
Intradesk is a disappointing UX from 2008 with nested folders no one can navigate. The alternative — Google Drive — splits the school into two data worlds, with privacy implications and no integration with the rest of the platform.
How EduVlaanderen fixes it
A flat list of documents + meetings, categorised (policy / procedure / minutes / note / calendar / other), searchable in title and content. ACL is per-document or per-meeting, with principal = person or role ("all teachers"). Calendar category automatically readable for all staff. Director sees everything.
Access rules
- Director → owner scope on everything in the school, no ACL needed.
- Author → owner scope on own documents + meetings.
- Calendar category → automatically read for all staff roles (no secret calendar).
- Explicit ACL → grant per person ("this person may read") or per role ("all class teachers may write").
- No ACL match → no access (default deny, except director/author/calendar).
- Archive document (owner only) — removed from search results, not deleted.
Flat structure wins over folders
Folder structures come from a world where storage was expensive and search was slow. A school team has neither — storage is free and search is instant. A flat structure with categories + tags + full-text search finds a document faster than anyone can click through a folder hierarchy. Bonus: new staff don't need to learn folder conventions.