Max Whitney

Sakai OAE Deployment and Management (eBook, ePUB)

Open Source Collaboration and Learning for Higher Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) provides a unique collaboration system for university campuses: a social network that helps students discuss class materials, pursue research, communicate with faculty, and discover the risks and benefits of sharing personal informationall in a private, rather than public, forum. This example-driven guide will get you up to speed on various methods used to deploy, customize, and manage OAE, whether youre an IT specialist in an educational institution, or an academic or instructional technologist.Learn how to work with OAEs source code to modify key areas such as profiles, courses, permissions, and content. Youll soon adapt this network to support the culture and needs of your campus.Create research projects and online companions for lecture coursesLearn about the range of OAEs public and privacy settingsCustomize OAEs look and feel, including the welcome screen, drop-down menus, and sign-up pagesConnect to a local LDAP to work with accounts and authenticationInstall widgets to extend and customize OAEs core functionalityIntegrate OAE with a web server and backend databaseGet a checklist for deploying your custom OAE to production

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449340766
• Artikelnr.: 42123838

Autorenporträt

Max is the Technical Team Lead for enterprise academic services in ITS at New York University and an active member in the DIY technology communities in New York. She managed the Blackboard implementation at NYU from 2001 to 2009; in 2008 acting as the technical lead for an enterprise upgrade impacting 110,000 users. She led a Sakai CLE pilot (then known as Sakai v2) at NYU in 2007, and is the technical architect on NYU's launch of Sakai OAE in 2011. She served on the Sakai Product Council 2010-2011 and is a member of the Sakai OAE Technical Review Board. She received her M.S. in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and B.A. from Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Note on Names
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Content Updates
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Why Sakai?
1.1 Putting Course Materials Online
1.2 Collaboration
1.3 A Protected Space
1.4 The Open Source Orientation
Chapter 2: Installing Sakai OAE
2.1 The Quickest Install: Web Start
2.2 Binary Install
2.3 Building from Source
Chapter 3: A Whirlwind Tour
3.1 Choose Your Browser
3.2 Create Your First Account
3.3 Create Your Profile
3.4 Create a Course and a Research Project
3.5 Changing the Dashboard
3.6 The Public Face of Sakai
Chapter 4: Making the Look and Feel Your Own
4.1 Configure OAE for CSS, Property, and JavaScript Changes
4.2 Modifying Labels in the User Interface
4.3 Internationalization and Localization
4.4 Changing the CSS: Paint It Pink
4.5 Changing Drop-Down Menus
4.6 Categories
4.7 Troubleshooting
4.8 Change the Landing Page
4.9 Changing the Sign Up and Error pages
4.10 Rebundle OAE
Chapter 5: LDAP Integration
5.1 Set Up a Mini LDAP Instance
5.2 Build and Install the OAE LDAP Modules
5.3 Choose Your Configuration (and Configure It)
5.4 Advanced Topics: Cracking Open the LDAP Authentication Plug-in
5.5 Removing the Self-Service Functions
Chapter 6: Building On
6.1 A Very Simple Dashboard Widget: JISC Content Browser
6.2 A Group Widget: Simplified Comments
6.3 A Complex Widget: Walking Time Map
Chapter 7: Scaling Up
7.1 The Basics
7.2 Integrating with a Database Backend
7.3 Set Up a Web Server
7.4 The Preview Processor
7.5 Separating Solr
7.6 Starting Clean
7.7 The Checklist