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Portal-LMS Integration

Portal-LMS Integration

Apr 29, 2008

Attendees

Tim Rudolph, Art Center of Design
Sriman, U Georgia
Clay Fenlaeson, Georgia Tech
Barry Walsh, Indiana University
Art Lewis, Pearson Education
Jon Soria, St. Paul Public Schools : Portal for Staff first, students later
Chris Davy, IBM
Jack Emmerlan, BU School of Theology : Looking at Sakai, uPortal on Campus (not used)
Chris Mann, UM-College Park : Plumtree & Blackboard
Cris Holdorph, Unicon : Help integration uPortal & Sakai
Nicholaas, CARET : Widgets
Ian Dolphin, Hull : uPortal (5+ years) also deploying Sakai, regional portal
George Adams, St. Paul Public Schools : Very Close, Using Moodle (toro-gateway portal)
Judy Liu, UM-College Park : Work with portal & Web services group
Josh Horner, Sungard : Luminus, Course Studio, interoperability
Bill Hughes, Pearson Education
Michael F., Oracle
Liu, FLUID
Ray Han, U Georgia : uPortal, Beta Sakai

Notes

myCamTools

  • JSON services to pull information out of Sakai

  • Facebook, iGoogle, other applications

  • Users associate a facebook account with their myCamtools account

  • Users login again to access resources - security

St. Paul

  • XML Fragment to put Google Gadgets

MyCourses Portlet

  • Unicon written courses & projects display

IMS Enterprise Services

  • Integration with IMS Enterprise

  • uPortal-Sakai @ JHU sharing groups and information via LDAP

  • Potentially multiple producers & consumers

Pearson

  • Removed Blackboard portal

    • multiple Blackboard instances, for scalability

  • tight integration with rest of infrastructure

    • centralized authn, authz systems

    • integration across many platforms: Blackboard, streaming video, etc.

  • ESB used to create courses, portal participated in events/relationship through the bus

  • courses-list integration -> moved deeper

  • performance optimizations to copy/cache data locally in the portal

  • When do you use an LMS and when do you use a portal?

  • layout manager extended to build layouts based on subscriptions

    • control user experience separate from course delivery

Barry - who's looking at making Sakai the Portal?

  • Indiana, GATech, and some other institutions hearing from faculty the desire to put services into the LMS

  • "Faculty have moved on from the portal"

  • transitioning between systems seemlessly produce users not needing to know which system they're in?

Portals

  • Aggretation & Dashboards

  • Gateways services & applications

  • Perosnalized or Customized experience

  • Accessibility & Usability - initial presenting page
    = admin broadcasting information to students

LMS

  • faculty content production environment (input & transactions)

    • different for blended or other formats vs distance learning
      = who produces content