[Building Sakai] PUSH notification service for mobile devices.

[Alexandre Balleste]

Hi everyone,

At University of Lleida we want to build a mobile app for our 
institution (iOS, Android and maybe windows). We are in early stages of 
analysis and the list of features is still under discussion. The main 
goal that the board direction want to achieve is to attract a large 
number of students to get a new quick channel to communicate with them. 
A feature that we think that would make attractive the app to students 
is that they could receive fine grained notifications about their 
enrolled courses like "Tomorrow class is cancelled". Now, all these 
notifications are sent to their institutional mail but they use to 
ignore them.

In addition, we use Sakai beyond the learning capabilities;  we use it 
as Intranet and collaboratives workspaces. We have several sites with 
different subsets of members of our institution like all staff, all 
students, students of a faculty, students of a degree... . These are the 
reasons that make us think that the solution that fits better to our 
purpose is to use Sakai as notification generator linked to a PUSH 
services that send messages to mobile devices. The implementation of a 
new Notification service to extend the current Sakai's notification 
service (mail delivery) seems the easy way to implement it.

Did anybody have any project or idea in mind like this?

Regards,

Alex.

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Alexandre Ballesté Crevillén  alexandre.balleste at udl.cat
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