[Using Sakai] Advice on Elluminate Implementation

[Nate Angell]

Steve:

We find the BLTI Wimba integration promising—especially in that it
works OOTB. Given the Blackboard Collaborate roadmap, I'm not sure
another integration is worth the trouble.

- Nate

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mary,
> There is a Wimba integration for Sakai, I have been working on a little bit
> and the most up to date code is here:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/swinsburg/wimba/
> It's essentially a tool that connects to your Wimba environment and passes
> through some user information. It depends on proprietary Wimba jars though,
> which makes modifications difficult. Wimba don't provide a lot of support
> for this. But the tools works well and we and several other universities in
> Australia use it in production.
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 01/12/2010, at 3:24 AM, Mary Jane Palm wrote:
>
> The University of Rhode Island is currently piloting Elluminate and Wimba
> (started prior to the Blackboard Collaborate purchases).
> Have any other schools successfully integrated either Elluminate or Wimba
> with a 'multiple instance' Sakai installation?
> We are currently running Sakai 2.6 and run 7 instances.
> Thanks!
> Janie Palm
> On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Gordon, Patricia (psg3a) wrote:
>
> Rui,
>
> At the University of Virginia, we grant Instructors all Elluminate
> permissions except the administrator permission. This allows Instructors
> full capabilities to create, launch, and manage sessions from within the
> bridge tool in their course sites.
>
> We are using a distributed/community support model so that our Elluminate
> users can help each other, with additional support provided by technical
> personnel in schools/departments that choose to adopt Elluminate.
>
> Specifics about our implementation and support/training are available here:
>
> http://www.itc.virginia.edu/software/elluminate
>
> Trisha
>
> Trisha Gordon
> UVaCollab Project Lead and User Support Manager
> https://collab.itc.virginia.edu
> collab-support at virginia.edu
>
> Dept. of Information Technology and Communication
> University of Virginia
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> 434.243.5465
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-
>
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Algaze, Louis J
>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:03 PM
>
> To: Rui Li; Sakai Server
>
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Advice on Elluminate Implementation
>
> Rui,
>
> Once the Elluminate Bridge is installed and working, we allow instructors
>
> full capability to create, manage and host Elluminate sessions.  All
>
> that's
>
> required is instructor training on how to use Elluminate and the bridge.
>
> The only other restriction (which we don't have) is if there are limited
>
> seats, but I'm thinking that would only effect how many users could
>
> connect
>
> to all sessions at once, not how many sessions are created.
>
> Feel free to respond with more specific questions.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Louis Algaze
>
>
> On 11/2/10 10:26 AM, "Rui Li" <rli at anselm.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> We recently installed Elluminate bridge in Sakai and plan to release
>
> this to
>
> faculty next semester.  We would like to get some ideas on how you
>
> implement
>
> Elluminate on campus with Sakai.  What's your work process to create,
>
> manage, and host live sessions?  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Rui Li, Ph. D.
>
> Director, Instructional Technology
>
> Office of Information Technology
>
> Saint Anselm College
>
> 100 Saint Anselm Drive
>
> Manchester, NH 03102
>
> Tel: (603)-222-4290   Fax: (603)-641-7288
>
> rli at anselm.edu
>
>
>
>
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