[Building Sakai] Implement CourseManagementService ???

[Phuc Bui]

Dear,

Unluckily, we do not very good at web services and do not know about Quartz
:(

I think implementation CourseManagementService is quite complex to us. Now I
do not know how to implement ???

So I am considering a way to write a tool for admin that's responsible for :

-          Create a course site with data given by external database
(academic term, course information.).

-          After creating a course site, we add users to that site (all
students and instructors will be registered as Sakai users before).

I think the advantage of that way is that: instructors do not worry about
how to create a course site, everything is done automatically. They just
enter website and choose their course site then do their job.

 

So I would like to ask whether it is possible or not ?

If it is, which API can be used to create a course site, and add available
Sakai users to a course site ?

 

Thanks for your replies,

Phuc Bui

 

From: John Bush [mailto:john.bush at rsmart.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 2:16 AM
To: Phuc Bui
Cc: 'Sakai Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Implement CourseManagementService ???

 

You don't necessarily need to implement the CourseManagementService.  The
CourseManagementService is useful if you want instructors or admins to have
flexibility in how you map courses into sites.  If you want to enforce a
strict mapping, you can simply provision the sites and enrollments yourself
using a quartz job or web services.  For example, your external system could
dump its notion of course, enrollments, even users into files which are then
read by a quartz job that leverages the Sakai api's to create the sites,
memberships, and users as you see fit.   Most of our clients do things this
way, only a few need the power of the CourseManagementService.

 

John Bush

Development Manager

rSmart

 





 

On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Phuc Bui wrote:





Dear all,

Our problem is that:

We just want to create sites for courses which are registered by other
system. I mean our university will offer courses that are available to
register (to enroll) then student will enroll these courses.

Then administrator will create sites with that data (we implement the simple
model 1 course - 1 site).

Generally, I want the result as Sakai demo data. When I select an Academic
Term, it will display list of course offering of that term, when I select a
course offering, I will have available members (instructor and students) who
have registered for that course offering.

Now, I am in a mass, I do not know how to do and where to begin.

As my older question, I know we have to implement interface
CourseManagementService but how about other interfaces in Course management
system (CourseManagementAdministration , AcademicSession, CourseCanonical,
CourseOffering, Membership ..) ?

Then we have to implement CourseManagementGroupProvider

 

Would you please tell me the steps to implement CourseManagementService ?

 

Thanks a lot

Looking forward to your replies

 

Phuc Bui

 

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