[Building Sakai] Linking Sakai to SIS

[Ray Davis]

Yes, many (most?) Sakai deployments do integrate Sakai somehow to their 
SIS and/or registrar systems, and many of us use homegrown 
non-commercial systems. It's not as seamless or as low-maintenance as I 
would like, but it's certainly doable. :)  The standard interface for 
handling integration in Sakai 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 is called the Course 
Management API (or CM API). You can probably find a great deal of 
discussion on that topic in the various mailing lists and on Confluence. 
Here's an introduction:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAKDEV/Course+Management+Integration

Best,
Ray

> Hello!
> 
> The University of Florida has recently selected Sakai as our next LMS 
> and being one of the people that did the integration of WebCT with our 
> SIS, I need to begin looking toward what it will take to do the same 
> with Sakai.
> 
> My head is just full of questions but the most important at this time is 
> who on this list has done any development (either internally or 
> externally to Sakai) to integrate Sakai to their SIS?  Our SIS is 
> homegrown so any already developed modules for 3rd party systems are out 
> of the question, unfortunately.
> 
> If you feel you can answer at least part of my barrage of questions then 
> please contact me at ufchrisg at ufl.edu <mailto:ufchrisg at ufl.edu>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> 
> Christopher Gross
> e-Learning Support Services
> Academic Technology
> University of Florida