[Building Sakai] Karuta Open Source Portfolio 1.0 Released!

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Congrats on the release!  Is there a plan or ETA for a publicly-available
demo instance?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:28 PM, janice.smith <janice.smith at threecanoes.com>
wrote:

> Karuta Open Source Portfolio 1.0
>
> Release Date: September 30, 2014
>
>
>
> The Apereo Karuta incubation project is pleased to announce the release of
> the Karuta Open Source Portfolio 1.0. This first release provides a
> production-ready environment to support a full range of simple to
> sophisticated learning and assessment portfolio projects.
>
>
>
>  Mission
>
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> Our aim is to make learning more visible and reflective. We therefore
> offer  the portfolio community a simple and flexible tool that provides the
> means for portfolio practitioners, as well as students, to customize their
> own portfolio workflows in order to foster increased awareness and control
> of one’s own learning.
>
>
>
>  Key features
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> Simple. Teaching and learning (T&L) designers can quickly build portfolio
> workflows by creating pages, adding different resources (text, document,
> comments, rubrics, oEmbed resources, etc.) and assigning their use to
> various roles (student, evaluator, etc.).
>
>
> Flexible. Karuta has no a priori structure.  The T&L designer has full
> control and can build sophisticated portfolio workflows with a minimum of
>  training. No code development is required.
>
>
> Iterative. Karuta is built for quick review and revision. Design a
> portfolio, test it in faculty meetings, make changes, run a small pilot.
>
>
> Powerful. Karuta has advanced features for creating rubrics, user menus,
> summary pages, help, and peer evaluation. Script language will be available
> for batch files to create users and share portfolios.
>
>
> Mobile devices ready. Karuta is responsive design-ready and can be
> displayed on computers, tablets or smartphones.
>
>
> Multilingual. Karuta can support many  languages and has already been set
> up for English, French, and Japanese. Language customization can be
> accomplished quickly. A special version of Karuta supports multilingual
> portfolios where not only are interface commands multilingual, but forms,
> images, or documents can be made available in the chosen language.
>
>
>  Technology. jQuery javascript front end, Twitter Bootstrap, MySQL
> (Oracle), REST API.
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> Try it out!
>
>
> The Karuta source code has been tagged as version 1.0 and can be
> downloaded from the following project:
>
> <https://github.com/karutaproject>https://github.com/karutaproject
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>
> <https://github.com/karutaproject>
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> Documentation on how to install Karuta can be found in each repository of
> Karuta Project.
>
>
> Get in touch
>
>
> For additional information on Karuta, contact us at
> karuta-enquiries at apereo.org.
>
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>
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>
>
>  Thanks to …
>
>
> The Karuta open source project originated from a research project
> conducted at MATI Montréal, a teaching and learning research center funded
> by the J.A. de Sève foundation and hosted by HEC Montréal, Polytechnique
> Montréal, and the University of Montréal.  A great number of individuals
> and departments have supported and contributed to the initial phase of the
> project:
>
>
>
>    -
>
>    Réseau de formation en recherche périnatale du Québec (Isabelle Krauss)
>    -
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>    Polytechnique Montréal (Ricardo Camarero, Dominique Chassé)
>    -
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>    Faculté des sciences de l’éducation de l’Université de Montréal
>    (Pascale Lefrançois, Maryse Rondeau)
>    -
>
>    Carrefour Perfectionnement Polytechnique Montréal (Tuan Nguyen Dang)
>    -
>
>    MATI Montréal (Claude Coulombe, Nicole Téta Nokam, Odile Martial,
>    Racky Diack).
>    -
>
> The 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference in Atlanta was an important milestone
> during which we welcomed new participation in the Karuta project by Three
> Canoes LLC and the University of Kyoto. L’Institut universitaire de
> technologie IUT-2 Grenoble joined the project soon, after along with ESPE
> of Grenoble (Emmanuelle Villot-Leclercq, Christophe Charroud and Céline
> Pobel-Burtin). Mathieu Cournoyer and Bruno Cloutier of the Bureau principal
> also gave project members some very helpful UI advice
>
> .We would like to acknowledge the support and work of current partners and
> individuals who are responsible for this first release:
>
>
>
>    -
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>    HEC Montréal (Olivier Gerbé, Jacques Raynauld, Nobry Ouk, Thi Lan Anh,
>    Isabelle Roy, and Jean Talbot)
>    -
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>    Three Canoes LLC (Sean Keesler and Janice Smith)
>    -
>
>    University of Kyoto (Shoji Kajita, Koichiro Tonomura, Naoshi Hiraoka,
>    and Kumiko Kondo)
>    -
>
>    Institut universitaire de technologie IUT-2 Grenoble (Lionel Filippi,
>    Sylvie Pesty, Eric Giraudin, and Marc Vassoille).
>    -
>
> We especially want to publicly acknowledge the essential and generous
> contribution of Olivier Gerbé of HEC Montréal who, as the lead architect
> and developer, made this project possible, Jacques Raynauld, who has led
> the project at HEC Montréal from its inception, and Janice Smith of Three
> Canoes LLC for her project and community management skills.
>
>
> Finally, we want to thank our Apereo incubation mentors, Ian Dolphin and
> Mark Norton, for their guidance and patience as we take our first steps
> toward becoming a fully fledged open source project.
>
>
>
>
> What’s next?
>
>
> New features will be available soon, such as showcase portfolios,
> reporting and accreditation portfolios, OSP data migration, OSP type
> matrices, grading matrices, IMS LTI 2 integration, improved functionalities
> (email notification, submit, show/hide, verification), HTML publishing, and
> portfolio templates (learning portfolios, CVs, etc.).
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Janice A. Smith, Ph.D.
> Karuta Incubation Project Lead
> Three Canoes LLC
> 1204 Laurel Avenue
> Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104, USA
> 651-642-9069, 207-841-6262 (cell)
> janice.smith at threecanoes.com
> http://threecanoes.com
>
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