Sakai-Portal Integration

A continuation of a discussion started at the JA-SIG Unconference between both uPortal community members and some FLUID representatives - this BOF is intended to gather interested parties in integrating portals and LMS's (particularly Sakai (smile) .

The scope of the BOF is intended continue work:

  • summarize current work in the space
  • defining the needs and audiences for integration
  • determining general cases for integration
  • looking at specific opportunities or techniques for integration
  • collecting interested individuals for building hooks on both ends, possibly as part of a larger HigherEducation portlet initiative.

This session might also be interesting for people interested in integration with Facebook, OpenSocial, micro-formats, RSS, or other scenarios.

This BOF will be held:
Day: Thursday, Dec 6, 2007
Location: Laugna
Time: 8:40 - 9:50am

Interested Parties

Name

Interests

Former user (Deleted) (Unicon, Inc.)

what Former user (Deleted) said, plus specific interest in getting communal value from (or deciding on more valuable alternatives to) Unicon's investment in MyCourses portlet, enjoying Fluid's efforts to get back to a principled look at portal-LMS integration needs and user experience considerations

Former user (Deleted) (Rutgers)

uPortal-Sakai as a reference implementation for integrating portals/LMSs, open-source portlet stacks

Former user (Deleted) (Hull)

Sakai dashboards and general integration issues between Sakai and uPortal

Former user (Deleted) (Yale University)

Possible integration of a portlet to give a user a launching point to any of their course tabs (problematic once a user has more than 5 tabs)

Former user (Deleted) (UC Berkeley)

Providing cameo views of information in Sakai and other LMS's

Former user (Deleted) (UC Berkeley)