[Building Sakai] FWD: Sakai & Multi-Institutional Support

[Sean Keesler]

This was a request for info from a potential Sakai adopter from CT
State University regarding strategies for using Sakai with multiple
institutions.

I know of a couple of deployments that could perhaps provide info
about how they deal with it.
I'll be encouraging her to join the list.

Sean Keesler
Sakai Foundation Webmaster



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at sakaifoundation.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [sakai mailman] Sakai & Multi-Institutional Support
To: Cheryl Bermani-McCann <mccannc at ct.edu>


Cheryl,

Welcome to Sakai.

I know that there are a few edge cases out there that use Sakai 2
ACROSS different enterprises.

I think the trick is that each user in Sakai gets a unique ID. In a
single institution, that is usually mapped to a student ID in the
Student Information System at that university. Same thing with
courses...the registrar system provides ID's for the course offerings
and that equates to a set of rosters and memberships in Sakai.

The trick when trying to use Sakai with multiple "providers" of that
type of information would be reconciling id's from the different
schools and authenticating that person against the relavent directory
services. Let me see what some members of the community are doing.

Sean Keesler
Sakai Project Community Webmaster
sean.keesler at sakaiproject.org



On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Cheryl Bermani-McCann <mccannc at ct.edu> wrote:
> I am looking to see if Sakai, out of the box, can support the following:
>
> Multi-institutions
> List a person’s courses from two or more multi-institutions on the opening
> page (with direct access without additional login would be great.)
>
>
> Is this something you can post for me to the sakai-dev group or other groups
> as you see fit?
> We are considering Sakai but this is a critical issue for us that needs
> resolving before we can move forward.  Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Cheryl A. Bermani-McCann
> Applications Administrator
> CT State University System
> 39 Woodland Street
> Hartford, CT  06105-2337
> 860-493-0112
> mccannc at ct.edu
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
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