the key for me is that the eportfolio cannot and should not hold all the info, it is flawed thinking to believe it is there for things like kids attendance, teacher notes, and screeds of irrelevant notes, forget test scores and irrelevant teacher/school information/assessment, it needs to be kept separate. the eportfolio is there to share, collaborate and celebrate the learning. schools who set up separate networks, with intentions of a one stop portal defeat the purpose of an online presence by locking out the learning and learners who they intended to collaborate with in the first place.
Once you establish what the web presence and level of collaboration is for your school then you can go about doing that.

As for one person having to do it all….. we all know that model will fail, and the worst thing about that is for the dude who set it up and looks after it, cause they pour hours and hours into it…

re-evaluate the current model, thin it out, make it self sustaining, remove the SMS school management stuff and assessment stuff.. teachers and principals all play a part.. everyone must contribute and make it happen together.