The Sakai Pilot at UCLA 2005-2006

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The Sakai Pilot at UCLA2005-2006

• Update for the ITPB Meeting
• Nov 29,2005

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Overview

• What is Sakai
• Sakai CLE tools
• The future of Sakai
• UCLAs Sakai pilot
• Screenshots

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What is Sakai?

• A Foundation that began as a project with a grant
  from Carnegie Melon
• An emerging community of people and resources
  supporting the code and each other, realizing
  large scale open source efficiencies in higher
  education (80 Universities in 10 countries 10
  Commercial Affiliates).
• An extensible framework for collaborative
  development - providing basic capabilities to
  support a wide range of tools and services for
  teaching and research
• Standards based - JSR-168, OKI OSIDS, IMS
• A product with
• A released bundle of the framework
• A set of tools written and supported by various
  groups and individuals tested and released as a
  unit

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Sakai Educational Partners

• Johns Hopkins University
• Lancaster University
• Lubeck University of Applied Sciences
• Maricopa County Community College
• Marist College
• MIT
• Monash University
• Nagoya University
• New York University
• Northeastern University
• North-West University (SA)
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Portland State University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Ringling School of Art Design
• Roskilde University (Denmark)

• Albany Medical College
• Arizona State University
• Australian National University
• Boston University School of Management
• Brown University
• Carleton College
• Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cerritos Community College
• Charles Sturt University
• Coastline Community College
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Florida Community College/Jacksonville
• Foothill-De Anza Community College
• Franklin University
• Georgetown University
• Harvard University

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Sakai Educational Partners

• Stockholm University
• SURF/University of Amsterdam
• Syracuse University
• Texas State University-San Marcos
• Tufts University
• Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
• Universitat de Lleida (Spain)
• University College Dublin
• University of Arizona
• University of British Columbia
• University of California, Office of the President
• University of California Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Merced
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Cambridge, CARET
• University of Cape Town, SA
• University of Chicago

University of Delaware University of
Hawaii University of Hull University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign University of
Limerick University of Melbourne,
Australia University of Minnesota University of
Missouri University of Nebraska University of
North Texas University of Oklahoma University of
South Africa (UNISA) University of Texas at
Austin University of Toronto, Knowledge Media
Design Institute University of Virginia University
of Washington University of Wisconsin,
Madison Virginia Polytechnic Institute/University
Whitman College Yale University
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Sakai is a CLE

• What is a CLE?
• A Collaborative Learning Environment that
  supports
• Course Management
• Blackboard, WebCT, etc
• Project or research collaboration
• Lotus Notes, Oracle Portal etc

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Course Collaborative Tools
Sakai Tools Sakai Tools Sakai Tools
Collaborative tools Course tools Administrative Tools
Profile Collaborative tools Account
Membership Assignments Email Preferences
Schedule Assignments w/grades User Mgmt
Resources Drop box Alias Mgmt
Announcements Modules (Lesson Builder) Site Mgmt
Worksite Setup Syllabus Tool Permission and Role Mgmt
Discussion Tests Quizzes (Samigo) Message of the day
Presentation Gradebook Site Archive
Chat Room  Jforum (new Fall 05) Online monitor
Email Archive  LAMS (new Fall 05) Memory Mgmt
News    
Web Content    
Help    
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Sakai 2.1 is due Nov/Dec

• A Common API portion of Framework II
• Hierarchy for sections and groups
• Improved enterprise integration w/ OSIDs
• WSRP portal integration
• A uniform storage approach (OSPI Sakai)
• IMS tool interoperability launcher

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IMS Tool Portability Group

• Goal is interoperability for CMSs/CLEs
• Focus is on making tools portable between systems
  (Sakai, WebCT, and Blackboard)
• Established to further the discussion with
  commercial and other CMS/CLE providers
• Will use web services and IFRAMES

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The Future of Sakai

• Initial grant ends December 2005
• Initial project 4 core schools (4.4M)
• Grant funding (2.7 M)
• Transition to Community Source
• The SEPP is renamed Sakai Foundation (1-2
  million/year)
• Governance is merit-based (like Apache)
• Community funded team (10) for core maintenance
  evolution
• Expect new tool development from SEPP
• Optimistic outlook 80 2 140 tool developers
• Pessimistic outlook 80 .5 35 tool
  developers
• Continued in-kind resources UofM, Indiana, Yale,
  Foothill, Stanford, and Berkeley

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Sakai installations elsewhere

• Berkeley bSpace (http//bspace.berkeley.edu/)
• Yale Classesv2 (http//classesv2.yale.edu/portal)
  
• Texas State University (http//tracs.txstate.edu/p
  ortal)
• Mac Learning Environments (http//www.maclearninge
  nvironments.org/)
• OSP Portfolios (http//www.osportfolio.org/)
• Michigan CTools (https//ctools.umich.edu/portal)
  
• Indiana OnCourseCL (https//oncoursecl.iu.edu/)
• Foothill Etudes-NG (http//etudes-ng1.fhda.edu808
  0/portal/)
• Virginia Tech (https//scholar.vt.edu/)

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UCLAs Sakai Pilot

• Cooperative Sponsors
• Collaborative Teams
• Technologies
• Environments Integration
• Estimated Usage
• Support

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Project Teams
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Sakai Technologies
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Sakai Technologies

• Linux
• Redhat Enterprise Linux V3 Advanced Server
• kernel level 2.4.21-4ELsmp
• Apache (1.3.9)
• Tomcat (5.5.9)
• MySql (4.1.9)
• Sakai (2.0.1)

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Sakai HW Environments
TEST
STAGE
DEV
PROD
04-05
Dev Machine unstable hardware
Apache Tomcat/Sakai MySql
05-06
Trash
Apache Tomcat/Sakai MySql
Apache Tomcat/Sakai MySql
Apache Tomcat/Sakai MySql
Apache Tomcat/Sakai MySql
New
WARM SWAP of disks if issues
New
New
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Sakai UCLA Integration

• Critical Path Integration
• ISIS for authorization (implemented)
• Registrars data (implemented)
• MyUcla ( via links)
• Desired Integration
• UCLA Library digital content
• Final grades

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Estimated 05-06 Estimate
UCLA Unit Summer 2005 Summer 2005 Fall 2005 Fall 2005 Winter 2006 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Spring 2006
UCLA Unit Project sites Course sites Project sites Course sites Project sites Course sites Project sites Course sites
Anderson   80 2 80 4 100 6
CDH   2   4  2 5  3 10
SSC   0 1 0 2 0 3 1
Psychology 1 1
Sakai teams project sites (PDP) 6 8 (test sites)  17  14 (test sites)  18 14 (test sites)   20 14 (test sites)  
Totals 6 10 98 22 101 24 126 32
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Strategy for Pilot User Support

• Create a campus-wide Sakai Pilot user support
  team.
• Create a Sakai user support worksite.
• Develop and share support via a knowledgebase.

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Sakai Screenshots
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Sakai Home Page
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Login with Isis
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Local Sakai Login (Guest Access)
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Worksite Membership Access
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Sakai Tools
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Sakais new Discussion tool - Jforum
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Content Area