Sakai OAE Deployment and Management

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Book Detail 

Print Length: 140 pages

Publisher: O'Reilly Media (June 19, 2012)

Language: English

ASIN: B008D30RK4

ISBN: 1449318762

File Size : 13,7 Mb | File Format : PDF - Epub

Book Description 

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 information—all 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 you’re an IT specialist in an educational institution, or an academic or instructional technologist.

Learn how to work with OAE’s source code to modify key areas such as profiles, courses, permissions, and content. You’ll soon adapt this network to support the culture and needs of your campus.

• Create research projects and online companions for lecture courses
• Learn about the range of OAE’s public and privacy settings
• Customize OAE’s look and feel, including the welcome screen, drop-down menus, and sign-up pages
• Connect to a local LDAP to work with accounts and authentication
• Install widgets to extend and customize OAE’s core functionality
• Integrate OAE with a web server and backend database
• Get a checklist for deploying your custom OAE to production

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1 Why Sakai?
Putting Course Materials Online
Collaboration
A Protected Space
The Open Source Orientation

Chapter 2 Installing Sakai OAE
The Quickest Install: Web Start
Binary Install
Building from Source

Chapter 3 A Whirlwind Tour
Choose Your Browser
Create Your First Account
Create Your Profile
Create a Course and a Research Project
Changing the Dashboard
The Public Face of Sakai

Chapter 4 Making the Look and Feel Your Own
Configure OAE for CSS, Property, and JavaScript Changes
Modifying Labels in the User Interface
Internationalization and Localization
Changing the CSS: Paint It Pink
Changing Drop-Down Menus
Categories
Troubleshooting
Change the Landing Page
Changing the Sign Up and Error pages
Rebundle OAE

Chapter 5 LDAP Integration
Set Up a Mini LDAP Instance
Build and Install the OAE LDAP Modules
Choose Your Configuration (and Configure It)
Advanced Topics: Cracking Open the LDAP Authentication Plug-in
Removing the Self-Service Functions

Chapter 6 Building On
A Very Simple Dashboard Widget: JISC Content Browser
A Group Widget: Simplified Comments
A Complex Widget: Walking Time Map

Chapter 7 Scaling Up
The Basics
Integrating with a Database Backend
Set Up a Web Server
The Preview Processor
Separating Solr
Starting Clean
The Checklist

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