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

[Michael Feldstein]

The IMS LIS standard for integrating LMSs and SISs was specifically designed to support the multi-SIS use case. Each Person record coming across to the LMS with a SourcedID that includes a code for the particular SIS installation from which the record was sent. Furthermore, that ID has to be persisted in the LMS, according to the standard. So, if your SISs are using LIS to integrate with Sakai, you should be able to figure out which LDAP directory (or other identity management thingie) to authenticate against on a per-ID basis. The bit that is missing is the ability to associate multiple SourcedIDs with each other, which is what would give you single login. Failing some multi-institutional identity management effort, you could create an option for a user to do this manually.

Does that make sense?

- m

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On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Sean Keesler wrote:

> 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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