[Building Sakai] Linking Sakai to SIS

[Berg, A.M.]

Yes, 

and the nice thing about Sakai is that it is flexible and has many roads to Rome, on top of the course synchronisation, you can also partially use Web services http://www.packtpub.com/article/sakai-web-services-connecting-enterprise-part1 or even think about using the inbuilt Sakai scheduler to process text files and update the database through the Sakai API and for small ad-hoc events you can even think about building Sakai tool to allow admins to interact via a GUI.

There are a lot of solutions out there.

Alan



Alan -- Alan M Berg 

Available: Monday-Thursday 
Informatiseringscentrum 
Universiteit van Amsterdam



-----Original Message-----
From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org on behalf of Ray Davis
Sent: Fri 19/06/2009 13:19
To: 'Gross,Christopher'
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Linking Sakai to SIS
 
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
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