[Using Sakai] Advice on Elluminate Implementation

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Nate,

The current Wimba integration module is limited and extremely difficult to modify, so the BLTI Wimba module certainly sounds good.

cheers,
Steve


On 01/12/2010, at 12:21 PM, Nate Angell wrote:

> 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
>> PO Box 400198
>> Charlottesville, VA 22904
>> 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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