[Using Sakai] LCMS with Sakai

[csev]

John, 

I would talk to Terry O'Heron and Kevin Kalupson from Penn State University.   

They are an Angel school and are building an LCMS in Plone and plugging it into Angel using Basic LTI.

At the University of Michigan we have a Multimedia CMS called BlueStream from IBM that connects via Basic LTI.

In particular with extension to return grades back to Sakai (in 2.8) I feel that the use case for using Basic LTI to plug in an LCMS into Sakai (or any other LMS for that matter).

Whatever vendor you are working with, a Basic LTI implementation should not be too painful.

One of the use cases that is driving the Penn State work is the need for content to live through an LMS transition - so it can be used in both LMS systems during the transition.

/Chuck

>> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of
>> Grossman,John E
>> Sent: 24 May 2011 20:54
>> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: [Using Sakai] LCMS with Sakai
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We're looking at deploying a learning content management system (LCMS) for
>> use in conjunction with Sakai. In addition to regular web CMS functionality,
>> the LCMS should provide a UI that allows non-developer users to author
>> sites/modules with features like tabbed interfaces, text content areas,
>> media content areas, question/response pages (multiple choice, etc).
>> Ideally, the vendor would be moving in the direction of support for IMS
>> Basic LTI.
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone have success/failure stories or recommendations? We're looking
>> at Umbraco, an open source .NET web CMS. It's not an LCMS but provides nice
>> end-user functionality.
>> 
>> John Grossman
>> 
>> Academic Technology Services
>> 
>> The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
>> 
>> John.grossman at mdanderson.org