[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter June 2, 2011
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Wed Jun 8 19:32:26 PDT 2011
Sakai Newsletter
June 2, 2011
1. The 2011 Sakai North American Conference Begins Next Week!
2. Reminder: Sakai CLE Project Coordination Meetings in L.A.
3. Turnitin Birds of a Feather Discussion at L.A. Sakai Conference
4. Samigo (a.k.a. Tests and Quizzes) Survey and Samigo BoF in Los Angeles
5. Jasig Celebrates Successful Annual Conference in Denver
6. New Version of Elluminate Bridge for Sakai
7. Assignments 2 v1.0 Release
8. Recent Email Group Discussions
9. Events
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1. The 2011 Sakai North American Conference Begins Next Week in Los Angeles!
If you are unable to attend, you can read about all the conference
sessions here:
https://www.concentra-cms.com/program/Sakai/2011-sakai-conference/
As in the past, many or most of the sessions will be recorded for
viewing after the conference. Details to follow.
More information about the conference can be found at:
http://sakaiproject.org/sakai-conference-2011
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2. Reminder: Sakai CLE Project Coordination Meetings in L.A.
Colleagues,
Quick reminder that the Sakai CLE Project Coordination meeting in L.A.
is scheduled for Sunday, June 12th.
Date: June 12, 2011
Time: 9:00AM -6:00 PM
Place: Santa Anita BC room in Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Boxed lunches will be graciously provided by the Sakai Foundation.
The CLE Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) has set a focused
agenda so we can comprehensively cover important topics.
Topics on the agenda include:
- Planning & Road Map (2.9.0 & 2.10.0)
- CLE Development/Design/Testing Resources
- Build Process & Release Cycles
- Documentation (Wiki & JIRA) Cleanup
An hour has been set aside at the end of the meeting for information
sharing and brief discussion. This time will be broken into segments
no longer than 10 minutes each. Please contact Beth or Megan if you
are interested in a slice of this time.
Please let us know if you will be attending by adding you name to:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/vAV6B
Hope to see you there!
Megan & Beth
Megan May
Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) Chair
mmmay at indiana.edu
Beth Kirschner
Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) Vice Chair
bkirschn at umich.edu
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3. Turnitin Birds of a Feather Discussion at the L.A. Sakai Conference
Is your institution using Turnitin integration with Sakai? Are you
interested in the latest version and the integration with Assignments
2.0?
Please join us at the Turnitin Birds of a Feather discussion at Sakai11!
https://www.concentra-cms.com/program/Sakai/2011-sakai-conference/429.html
"Turnitin BoF: Discuss Current and Future Integration Options"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
3:45-4:45 PM
Room Santa Barbara A
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Alan Regan
Manager, Technology and Learning
Pepperdine University
Alan.Regan at pepperdine.edu
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4. Samigo (a.k.a. Tests and Quizzes) Survey and Samigo BoF in Los Angeles
Greetings all,
For the last year or so Indiana University has been working on
migrating our users from a legacy test and survey tool to Samigo, the
Sakai Tests & Quizzes tool. Because our legacy tool has some heavily
used features that aren't currently available in Samigo, we've done a
fair amount of development in Samigo and expect that work to continue.
We will also be incorporating enhancements developed by others in the
community that haven't yet been merged to trunk. Going forward, we
are keenly interested in exploring models for collaborating with other
institutions on the development of features that address common needs
and goals, and we have begun talking with Stanford about how best to
accomplish this. As a starting point, we will be convening a Birds of
Feather (BoF) session at the L.A. Conference for representatives from
institutions interested in contributing resources to the ongoing
maintenance and enhancement of Samigo. Please check the online
schedule for the time and location.
To help prepare for and jumpstart the conversation at the BoF, we're
trying to gather information about Samigo use, satisfaction, and
functional priorities across the Sakai community. If your school or
organization uses or supports Samigo, we'd like to invite you to
complete a short, informal survey, available at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&authkey=CKLG_8YL&formkey=dDVlMmMyX0ZVWHJQeEdFYm44elluVHc6MQ#gid=1
In addition to telling us about how Samigo is used at your
institution, the survey will give you an opportunity to register your
institutions interest in collaborating on Samigo development in the
future (especially important if you can't attend the BoF). Also, a
link in the confirmation message will take you to a Google doc where
you can document the Samigo enhancements and bug fixes that are
especially important to your institution.
We hope to see many of you at the BoF!
Best regards,
Lynn Ward
leward at iupui.edu
Megan May
mmmay at indiana.edu
Additional BoFs are listed on the conference program:
https://www.concentra-cms.com/program/Sakai/2011-sakai-conference/
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5. Jasig Celebrates Successful Annual Conference in Denver
Jasig, the higher-ed open source consortium of educational
institutions and commercial affiliates, held its annual conference in
Denver the week of May 22. A broad range of attendees participated in
a successful week of collaboration, innovation, and learning.
Highlights of the conference included:
- Announcing uMobile , the latest sponsored Jasig project
- Previews of the upcoming uPortal 4 release
- The success of our incubation process, shepherding new projects from
concept to production
- Continued progress on bringing the Jasig and Sakai communities together
- New efforts to partner with Kuali, I2 and Sakai in the area of
Identity and Access Management
- Engaging conversations with the 2-3-98 Project on the strategic role
of open source in higher education, from development to awareness and
adoption
Please visit the conference site to see the wide range of presentation
materials: http://www.jasig.org/node/728
Thanks again to our sponsors, Vasco and Unicon. For more information
about Vasco products please send email to David Nayes at
dna at vasco.com. For more information about Unicon please send email to
David Lipari at dlipari at unicon.net.
Patty Gertz
ed at jasig.org
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6. New Version of Elluminate Bridge for Sakai
Blackboard Collaborate is pleased to announce an update to the
Elluminate Bridge for Sakai. The Sakai Integration V1.1 for Elluminate
seamlessly integrates live, synchronous distance learning and
collaboration into the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment.
Instructors can schedule and deliver sessions and classes using
Elluminate Live!®, providing users with superior voice over the
Internet, multipoint video, integrated teleconferencing, shared
whiteboards, public/private chat, breakout rooms, application/desktop
sharing, file transfer, PowerPoint import, and more.
With the Elluminate Bridge for Sakai, students can launch a
synchronous session or interactive recording using Elluminate Live!
directly from their familiar Sakai environment. This bridge is
available to both hosted and self-hosted Elluminate customers.
Updates in the Sakai Integration V1.1 for Elluminate include:
- Support for Sakai 2.7.0 and 2.7.1
- Ability for unregistered guest users to join a session
- Ability to easily grab the external recording links, providing users
with easy access to their recording links to be used in Publish!
- Session creation in Sakai server local time zone
- Improved user interface and usability by:
---- Allowing users to delete multiple sessions and recordings at once
---- Allowing users to sort sessions and recordings by column headers
---- Displaying proper date format on session page
---- Improved interface for launching sessions and recordings
NOTE: If you are using Sakai 2.6, continue to use the Elluminate
Bridge V1.0 for Sakai 2.6.
Documentation, release notes and download information may be found here:
http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1302.
For more information about the Sakai Integration for Elluminate:
http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Extensions/Integrations/Sakai-Collaborative-and-Learning-Environment.aspx
Steve Schoen
Steve.Schoen at blackboard.com
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7. Assignments 2 v1.0 Release
Hello Sakai!
Based on a few tweaks to the rc1 we've now tagged Assignments2 v1.0.
Source:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/assignment2/tags/1.0
Build Instructions and Info (included with checkout):
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/assignment2/tags/1.0/README.html
This release incorporates several semesters worth of testing, bug
fixes and functionality additions.
New stuff includes:
- Reworking of permissions for various tasks
- Improved Gradebook interaction and syncing
- Lot's of work on our Turnitin and OSP integration.
- Improved bulk uploading and downloading
- User interface improvements based on user testing and feedback from
production support
- Lot's of bug fixes
Near-term plans include mostly small bug fixes and Jira/Confluence
gardening before/during the conference.
Any feedback, questions, testing reports are greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Steven Githens
swgithen at mtu.edu
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8. Recent Email Group Discussions
[Building Sakai] Assignments 2 v1.0 Release
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Assignments-2-v1.0-Release-to31801857.html#a31802130
[Building Sakai] Home page rename
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Home-page-rename-to31794241.html#a31794241
[Building Sakai] programmatically add participant to a course site
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--programmatically-add-participant-to-a-course-site-to31798978.html#a31798978
[Building Sakai] Sakai / Google integration
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Sakai---Google-integration-to31803503.html#a31803503
[Building Sakai] Specifying UTF-8 encoding data entered into OSP forms
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Specifying-UTF-8-encoding-data-entered-into-OSP-forms-to31801971.html#a31801971
[Building Sakai] Tests & Quizzes Scores
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Tests---Quizzes-Scores-to31805263.html#a31805263
[Building Sakai] Universities with Sakai in Miami
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Universities-with-Sakai-in-Miami-to31801528.html#a31801528
[DG: User Experience] Validation examples in Sakai OAE
http://old.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?query=Validation+examples+in+Sakai+OAE&local=y&forum=18101&daterange=0&startdate=&enddate=
[Using Sakai] Badges in Sakai/Profile2
http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Badges-in-Sakai-Profile2-to31787749.html#a31787749
[Using Sakai] Configuring MOTD by role
http://old.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?query=Configuring+MOTD+by+role&local=y&forum=18101&daterange=0&startdate=&enddate=
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9. Events
Sakai North American Conference
June 14 -16, 2011
Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles.
June 13 and 16 -- pre-conference workshops and project coordination
meetings www.sakaiproject.org/sakai-conference-2011
AuSakai 2011 "Towards an Open Academic and Collaborative Environment"
Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14 September 2011
Location: The Australian National University, Canberra
Networking Dinner: 13 September 2011
http://ausakai.anu.edu.au
EuroSakai Conference
September 26, 27, and 28, 2011
Amsterdam
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