[sakai-pmc] Sakai support for better OOTB integration with uPortal

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at vt.edu
Tue Oct 8 09:01:02 PDT 2013


Is there a jira for this? How would the change be implemented?
On Sep 27, 2013 2:51 AM, "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> The Sakai Connector Portlet has passed the Jasig/Apereo incubation process
> and is in the midst of being incorporated into the next uPortal release.
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> This portlet uses the trusted mode of the Basic LTI support in Sakai to
> allow a user with the same username in both systems to embed tools from
> their Sakai sites inside uPortal.
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> Sakai currently has LTI configuration in the experimental sakai props to
> support this, ie the demo of uPortal hooks up to the Sakai experimental
> server.
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> It so happens that uPortal ships with an admin user so for that user the
> OOTB experience works fine. However uPortal also ships with two other demo
> users called student and faculty. These have no equivalent in Sakai so the
> demo does not work for those users. These users are important in
> demonstrating the various layouts and portlet that uPortal offers.
>
> What I propose is that these two users are added to Sakai by default. The
> student would be an access user in mercury, the faculty would be a maintain
> user.
>
> This also ties in with my earlier emails of providing a better OOTB
> experience for Sakai.
>
> Please reply with any comments or concerns. I would like to get this in as
> soon as I can if there are no objections.
>
> Regards
> Steve
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