Toledoteam

The spider in the web

Toledo as a central digital learning environment

for the Association K.U.Leuven

Ilse Deprétoledo@kuleuven.be

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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Toledo

Toetsen en leren doeltreffendondersteunen

To support testing and learning in an efficient way

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Toledo at the K.U.Leuven

Started in september 2001

Virtual learning environment, consisting of:

Blackboard Learning System

Questionmark Perception

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Timeline

2001-02

Sept 01 Sept 02 Sept 03 Sept 04

2002-03 2003-04 2004-05

Start K.U.Leuven

Automatisation

Link SAP

Blackboard 6

Communities

Extra tools

Start GDLO

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Association K.U.Leuven

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Association K.U.Leuven

13 institutions, in 23 Flemish cities

81.500 students

44% of all higher education students in Flanders

54.000 at 12 institutes for Higher Education

27.500 at the university

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VLE’s in the Association

Blackboard: 9

Blackboard and WebCT: 1

Blackboard and N@tschool: 1

N@tschool: 1

Smartschool: 1

None: 2

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The need for a common VLE

To work together on the field of e-learning

To create a professional learningenvironment for students throughouttheir studies

To create a learning portal for the institutions, with a link to the Association

To stimulate collaboration betweendifferent institutions

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Challenges

Integration with differentadministrative systems

Non unique course and student id’s

Distributed authentication

Educational portal function for eachinstitution

Bridges to other e-learning solutions

Increase in users and courses

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Solutions

Data integration through IMS comform XML

Prefix for course and student id’s

Custom login module

Several portal roles, tabs and modules for each institution

Building blocks to other tools

Load-balanced environment

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Timeline

2005-06

Sept 05 Sept 06 Sept 07 Sept 08

2006-07 2007-08 …

Expansion GDLO

Blackboard 6.3

Expansion GDLO

Start Toledo+

Start eloV

Extra tools

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Timeline

2006-07

Sept 06 Sept 07 Sept 08 Sept 09

2007-08 2008-09 …

Blackboard 7.2

Social software

Link library system

Expansion GDLO

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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Active users

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Active courses

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Active communities

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Toledo+-users

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Look & feel

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Servers Toledo (2001)

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Lb1 Lb2 Lb3

Db 1 Db 2 NAS NAS

App1 eloV App2 eloV Collab eloV App1 Toledo App2 Toledo App3 Toledo App4 Toledo Collab Toledo

Servers Toledo (2007)

Blackboard

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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Questionmark

Advisory board

User groups Local admins / helpdesk

Students Staff Others

GDLO

Institution

Central Toledo support

K.U.Leuven

Software development/support Blackboard

Support model

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System support Bb / QMP

Data management Bb / QMP

Development Bb / QMP

User Support Bb/QMP

Application management Bb / QMP

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Advisory board

Consists of

1 representative from each institution

1 representative from each group of

K.U.Leuven

2 to 3 members Toledoteam

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GDLO adviescomité

Guidance

Controle of means

Prioritities of project

Requests for changes

Evaluation

Advice

Board of directors Associatie

Advisory Board Onderwijs

Advisory Board ICT&Logistics

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Requests for changes

Discussion within institution

Post on forum community

First reaction partners

Analysis and advice Toledoteam

RFB (Requests for Blackboard)

RFC (Requests for Change)

RFM (Requests for Means)

Discussion during meeting

Decision follow-up

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Forum adviescomité

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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Demonstration

Demo Toledo

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Overview

History

Toledo in figures

Support

Functionalities

Links

Conclusion

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ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

BbIdiomatic

AUTHENTICATION

Library

Community tool

Enrollment tool

Blogservice

LEARNING TOOLS

ICT TOOLS

REPOSITORIES

Parser

BB API’s Hib API’s

Wiki farm

QM Perception

Webmail

uSolvIT

Tolinto

Peer Assessm.

Mail

Storage

Intranet

VideoLAB

Shibboleth

IMS xml

Shibboleth

Building blockShibboleth

Shibboleth

Building block

Building block

IntermediateDatabase

Webservices

Single sign-on building block

Course Status tool

External users

Building block

QMWise

Webservices

Links

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Enrollments: optional courses

Course Catalog

Data management (2001)

campus management

application server

database server

BLACKBOARD

LEGACY DATA

1. Users: staff / students

2. Courses: study programmes

3. Enrollments: instructorscompulsory courses

One time database operation

1. users

2. courses

3. enrollments – memberships

campusmanagement

learningenvironment

Challenge

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LEGACY DATA

intermediate

database

BLACKBOARD

Nightlyupdates

student module Enrollments

staff module Organizations

Course Status

campus management

Data management (2002)

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LEGACY DATA

intermediate

database

BLACKBOARD

student module

staff module

Nightlyupdates

Enrollments

institute A

institute B

institute C

institute D

institute E

Data management (2004)

Organizations

Course Status

admin module Local support

need for

•portable

•cross-platform

•standardized

data transfer

? Challenge

PerlIMS compliant XML

Parser

! Approach

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LEGACY DATA

intermediate

database

BLACKBOARD

student module

staff module

Nightlyupdates

Enrollments

institute A

institute B

institute C

institute D

institute E

Data management (2006)

Organizations

Course Status

admin module Local support

institute H

institute H

institute H

institute H

institute H

institute H

institute H

institute H

Webservices

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SAP Study Programme

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Datamanagement

Perl script generates IMS compliantXML

User information

Programme information

Course memberships

Programme memberschips

Parser

Intermediate database

Insert / update operation in Bbdatabase

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XML-files

<person recstatus="1"><sourcedid>

<source>KULEUVEN</source><id>u0034877</id>

</sourcedid><userid>u0034877</userid><name>

<fn>Wim Machiels</fn><n>

<family>Machiels</family><given>Wim</given>

</n></name><email>

wim.machiels@cc.kuleuven.be</email><systemrole systemroletype="User" /><institutionrole primaryrole="Yes"

institutionroletype="Staff" /><extension>

<status>1</status></extension>

</person>

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Intermediate database

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Intermediate database

Structured study programmes

Official versus optional enrollments

Admin data for other tools (notstorable in Blackboard)

Enrollment module

Course status

Community module (organizations)

Extra data for building blocks

Basic Portfolio template tool

Group, Peer & Self assessment

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Enrollment module anno

2009

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Enrollmentmodule anno 2009

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Enrollment module anno

2009

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Course status

Linked with enrollment module

Association

Institution (default)

Study programme

Closed

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Community module

‘Non-regular’ courses (2001)

Organizations (2002-…)

Community module

Create and manage organizations

Automatically enroll students based on

study programme membership

Allow students/staff to self enroll

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Links SAP Campus

Management

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Shibboleth

Federated management of users

Authentication

Authorization to apps based onattributes

Privacy is central

Based on open standards

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Shibboleth

Page x

Where are you from?K.U.Leuven

Who are you?

LoginPasswordhandle

Attributes?

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Links to learning tools

Questionmark Perception (QMWise)

uSolvIT (SSO)

Idiomatic (SSO)

Wikiservice (webservices)

Blogservice (webservices)

Group, Peer & Self Assessment(webservices)

…

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Questionmark Perception

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Wikiservice

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Blogservice

Blog.association.kuleuven.be/ firstnamelastname

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Links to other ICT-tools

Webmail (building block)

Tolinto (SSO)

Numerous applications in institutions (Shibboleth)

Mail

Webdrive

Databases

…

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Webmail

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Tolinto

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Tabpages

Extra: check bart!!!

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VideoLAB

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Link library system

Link catalog (LibisNG)

Link database (LibriSource)

Search interface on MetaLib

Based on quick sets (profile)

LibriSource Query: link to query

LibriLink: link to article

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Link library system

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LibriSource tools

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LibriSource tools

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Conclusion

Toledo as learning portal

Website versus intranet versus Toledo

Difference tools is fading (Blackboard,

Questionmark Perception, K.U.Loket,

webmail, …)

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Conclusion

Toledo as bridge

Between staff and students

Between institutions

Between applications

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