[Building Sakai] PUSH notification service for mobile devices.

Sila Kayo silakayo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 12:41:15 PDT 2014


Hi Alex,
We have successfully implemented Push Notifications in our upcoming Sakai
Mobile App (http://twitter.com/Sakai2Go <https://twitter.com/Sakai2Go>) .

I will be presenting during the Sakai Virtual Conference (
http://t.co/j2LnRx7UIN)  and I am planning to share some technical details
of our implementation.

BR
Sila

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Alexandre Balleste <
alexandre.balleste at udl.cat> wrote:

> 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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