[Using Sakai] Use of Branding and Skins Across Institutions

[Steve Swinsburg]

I recently added a feature to the portal so that depending on your usertype you are taken to a different url, configurable via sakai.properties

loggedOutUrl=/portal 
loggedOutUrl.sakai=http://www.sakaiproject.org 

where sakai is a usertype.

This was designed so you can have a multi institution setup, so would work nicely in your case.

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-16370

cheer,s
Steve




On 03/12/2010, at 11:20 PM, David Goodrum wrote:

> Hi Hannah, 
> 
> Indiana is interested in this as well because of similar requests from individual schools within our university system.  
> 
> We have interest in providing different gateway/login pages as well as providing different site skins based on school. I don't know of other institutions already doing this. And so our development team would likely love to work on this issue with others and build on any existing work in the community. 
> 
> Regards - David
> 
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:29 PM, "Reeves, Hannah H." <Hannah.Reeves at tufts.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Sakai Colleagues,
>> 
>> As some of you know, Tufts University has recently decided to adopt Sakai and is looking to implement in fall 2011.
>> Our implementation team is currently in the midst of making some preliminary decisions about our instance of Sakai, which will be the first common LMS platform in Tufts history. Since the university comprises eight different schools & colleges spread across three geographical campuses, we are wrestling with how to preserve consistency in our instance while allowing some schools to maintain their brand identity for courses and programs. I know some schools use a single skin for the Sakai gateway page and users’ My Workspaces but allow skins to be associated with courses in different schools. I’m wondering how common this is and whether your institution has adopted this approach or decided against it for one reason or another. Are there any best practice tips that you’d be willing to share or that have become part of the community knowledge base?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Hannah
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