[Using Sakai] [sakai-kaltura] How do you approach Sakai timeouts when viewing long video content

[Matthew Jones]

You can refresh the users session by periodically polling
<servername>/direct/session/current

Hitting this url will update the session time. If it's not on the same
domain, you might not be able to get at the values but that wouldn't be
important.

You'd probably have to add some javascript to Kaltura or if you're using
the Sakai kaltura tool to do it. This sounds like what David did?

A long timeout doesn't seem like that big of a deal anymore though either.
All of the big platforms (GmailFacebook/Twitter/etc) seems to have nearly
unlimited length sessions. I've never seen a logout message on any of those
sites. I think students would be risking a lot more (socially) if they left
a public computer logged in nowadays while remaining logged into those
services. ;)

-Matthew

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rebecca L Darling
<rdarling at wellesley.edu>wrote:

> Thanks so much for your replies.
>
> Jama, would you be able to tell me what your Sakai time-out is set to?
>
> David, that Media Gallery modification sounds like it might be what we're
> looking for. Would it be something you're able to share with us?
>
> Mathieu, I agree. I don't know if a separate window is the solution, but
> we can explore it.
>
> Thanks again!
> Becca
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Hirsch, David <david.hirsch at yale.edu>wrote:
>
>>   We haven't had this problem reported at Yale, either, but we modified
>> our Media Gallery (SKE) tool so that it simulates activity on the page
>> every 10-15 seconds.  We did this because faculty were reporting their
>> Sakai session would time out while uploading a very large media file to
>> Kaltura via Media Gallery.  I'm guessing that the same simulated activity
>> would prevent students' sessions from timing out as long as their browser
>> remains on the tool page.
>>
>>  ______________________________________________________
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>>  David Hirsch
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>> The Center for Media and Instructional Innovation (CMI2)
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>>
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>>   From: jama coartney <jsc3x at virginia.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:56:00 -0500
>> To: Rebecca L Darling <rdarling at wellesley.edu>
>> Cc: Sakai User <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>, <
>> sakai-kaltura at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> Subject: Re: [sakai-kaltura] How do you approach Sakai timeouts when
>> viewing long video content
>>
>>   Hi Rebecca,
>> We haven't had this issue reported at UVA.  I'm assuming our session
>> timeout must be long enough to accommodate.
>> Jama
>>
>>  On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Rebecca L Darling wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  We're using Kaltura for video reserves in Sakai this spring. Some of the
>> films are 2.5 to 3.5 hrs long, but our inactive timeout for Sakai is set to
>> 2 hrs. When students are viewing a film full screen, they forget they're in
>> Sakai, and it times out on them in the background. Whether you're using
>> Kaltura or viewing other long-form videos, aside from extending the
>> timeout, what other options are you using for working around this kind of
>> problem?
>>
>>  Thanks!
>> --
>>
>> Rebecca Darling
>> Asst Dir, Instructional Technology
>> Research & Instructional Support, LTS
>> Wellesley College
>> 781-283-2882
>>
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