[Using Sakai] LMS-SIS updates via ftp-pull?

[Neal Caidin]

[sakai-user]

Hi All,

I responded off-line to Gregory and he seems to think this could be a 
useful answer to his question, so I'm reposting to the list:

Are you familiar with Simple Sakai SIS Services?

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/IMSES/Simple+Sakai+SIS+Services


Cheers,
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation

> Gregory Guthrie <mailto:guthrie at mum.edu>
> January 29, 2014 at 4:02 PM
>
> I saw a video from the LAMP consortium, and because they have a 
> variety of schools sharing one Sakai instance, they described a Sakai 
> tool ISIS which would accept multiple methods of course enrollment 
> updates. One was a pull via FTP from a known directory site (as I 
> understood it). Since this allows such loose coupling of any back-end 
> or SIS, it seems like an interesting option for us to try as we have 
> multiple back-end sources for enrollment data in some cases.
>
> The basic idea was to have a site where tools could deposit enrollment 
> data files, and Sakai would scan periodically and upload them.
>
> Is there a standard way to get Sakai to do this, and/or any 
> descriptions of using such a setup? We plan to write some local 
> software to poll various sources of such data and push it into Sakai 
> using the webservices, but thought this might be a first-step 
> experiment for the connection while we sort out the back-end data issues.
>
> (I saw something from rSmart (from John Bush-2007), but it seemed like 
> it was a development guide, and not something in standard usage.)
>
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Apereo Foundation
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