[Building Sakai] Add Users

[Sean Keesler]

Sakai was designed with integration with enterprise systems in mind.
Many school automate the process of adding users and adding them to
the right worksites as part of their integration with their ERP or SIS
systems on campus.

When you try to run it as a "standalone" system, you can bump your
head against some design issues....like manually adding large lists of
classes and users to those sites.

One way to work with "what is" is to learn about Sakai's web services
that could script the occasional (or periodic) addition of users to
Sakai. The course management API's allow you to establish rosters for
courses that allows instructors to "pick" a roster and add it to their
site...eliminating the time consuming steps of manually adding users
by their user id.

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/WEBSVCS/How+to+use+the+Sakai+Web+Services
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Course+Management+Integration

Sean




On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Longfei Yu <longfei at oit.umass.edu> wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
> Actually, we are using Blackboard 8 now, and going to switch to Sakai, or
> Moodle, or Bb9 in the near future. We are just starting testing all these 3
> tools, but found Sakai does not support the .csv upload, and it seems hard
> to use the API. You have to have a very extensive programming skills to make
> Sakai run perfectly.
>
> Any thoughts about the advantage of Sakai based on your guys' development or
> maintenance experience, like what kind of functions it lacks, and if it is
> easy to develop new tools? If there are new stable version released, if it
> is easy to merge your own tools with the new version?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Longfei
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johns, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:59 AM
> To: Longfei Yu; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Cc: Liu, Peter
> Subject: RE: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>
> We can share the code, no problem, but this does not just add them to the
> Sakai instance, it adds them to a single site.
>
> If that works for you, I can have our system programmer be in contact to
> share the code.   Please respond to Peter who is cc'd here.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Longfei Yu
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:39 AM
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>
> Great, I also need one to upload user information from .csv file to
> Sakai. I just added 200 users manually, sounds so stupid.
>
> How can I get it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Longfei
>
> Quoting "Johns, Cheryl" <cheryl.johns at yale.edu>:
>
>> Good morning Mohan,
>>
>> We have developed a tool that allows you to populate a specific site
>> using a spreadsheet of IDs/roles.  Would this work for you?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of
>> mohan at samudrasoftware.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:40 AM
>> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to load users from csv or spread sheet to sakai database?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mohan
>>
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