[Building Sakai] Add Users

[Liu, Peter]

Hi Longfei,

Sakai is definitely a bit hard for the new starter and you need some time to get familiar with Sakai architecture and configuration process. However, there is big user groups behind it and will help you through such hurdles. We found Sakai is quite flexible and easy to modify to satisfy our own institution's needs. Sakai architecture (java based) allows you easily to create your own tool to integrate into Sakai. There are a lot of Contributing tools out there, which are developed by various institutions.  You may find them very useful for you by making few adjustment to meet your own requirements.

Some other people here might be more qualified than me to give you detailed information about the advantages by using Sakai over others.

Cheers,
Peter Liu

-----Original Message-----
From: Johns, Cheryl 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:16 AM
To: Longfei Yu; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Cc: Liu, Peter
Subject: RE: [Building Sakai] Add Users

Peter, I'll let you answer the questions about customizing Sakai and tool development.

-----Original Message-----
From: Longfei Yu [mailto:longfei at oit.umass.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:08 AM
To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Cc: Liu, Peter
Subject: RE: [Building Sakai] Add Users

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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