S2USakai and the S2U CommunitySakai y la communidad de S2U

Noviembre 2013Neal Caidin

Sakai Community Coordinator

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About me

• Neal Caidin – neal.caidin@apereo.org• Role• Relation to Sakai PMC

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CLE Needs You!

Presentation Goals(objectivos

presentacíon)•Discuss the Sakai 2.10 (discutir el proyecto Sakai•Discuss the Sakai community (discutir la communidad Sakai)

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Sakai Project version status

• Sakai 2.10 (Sakai 10?) - in development• Sakai 2.9 - current stable release 2.9.3 • Sakai 2.8 - current stable release 2.8.3• Sakai 2.7 and earlier - not supported by the

community

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Sakai 2.10 (aka Sakai “Chocolate Pudding”. Hint: not really.)

• What is the real name?• What is the rationale for this release?• Timeline?

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Sakai 2.10 Features - Anticipated

• Announcements• Assignments• Major new features• Updates to existing features• Audio Features• Chat (tool chat, not portal chat)• Dropbox• Editor Improvements• Forums• Grading• User Interface• Gradebook• LTI (Integration with external tools based on IMS LTI specification. Formerly known as Basic LTI)• Messages• Mobile• Portal Chat• Portal Configuration• Resources (aka Content)• Search• Site Management• Statistics• Syllabus• System Administration• Tests and Quizzes (Samigo)• Editing Published Tests• Math improvements• Pools• Question Types• Settings• Statistics  / Event Tracking• Student Success Plan - new• Sign up Tool• Paying down technical debt (Roster 2, Profile 2, Hibernate, and more. ) : Spring Annotations, Hibernate

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Disclaimer slide

• These are educated guesses based on features which already appear to be merged into Sakai trunk and email discussions. All results are subject to change until we lock down the scope of the release.

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Announcements

• Reorder Announcements - on by default

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Assignments

• Group Submissions• Peer Assessments

And….• Hide Due Date for Assvignment• Comments sent to Gradebook along with

grades• If instructor allows resubmission, student is

notified

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Chat tool

• Optional start and end date for chat rooms

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Dropbox

• Instructor can upload one document to several students at once.

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Editor Improvements

• Upgrade to latest version of CK Editor 4.1.2• Support for Audio recording• Word count

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Gradebook

• Extra Credit

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Discussion Forums

• Better integration with the gradebook. Respects grade type setting.

• Show which forums contain unread messages

• Ability to move a thread to a different topic• Identify site members by special rank (e.g.,

by role) or by post count• Add property to set default start and end

time of day

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LTI

• Support for LTI 2.0

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Messages

• Display the Sender's profile picture on received messages

• Mark replied messages on the "Received" folder.

• Addition of setting to always send to recipients' email addresses

• Add sender's email address to message body

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Mobile

• Project Keitai - Phase 1

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Portal Chat

• Allow institutions to remove certain roles, such as guests, from inclusion in the portal chat

• Allow users to permanently opt out of portal chat

• Hide chat participants option (for privacy)• (Portal chat still off by default though)

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Portal Configuration

• Create option to insert configurable links into portal header. More flexible configuration at your institution.

• Add Clock to Interface

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Resources

• Ability to hide a folder while allowing access to files inside it

• Drag and Drop to add files (upload)

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Search

• Elastic search default• Solr search option (Oxford)

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Site Management

• Allow users to display short description instead of site title in site tab bar

• Flexible way to customize cut method for site title in tabs.• Site Info -> Import from site needs to run in a separate thread

and email user when finished• Subject, course and section length configurable for Site creation• Section Info: Allow read only sections (by category) with

MANUAL_MANDATORY configuration. • Create a property to set default number of students per page for

Roster.• Create Joinable Groups• Worksite Setup Filter by term• Site creation confirmation email• Improve Create Site from Template process• Improve layout/organization of tools in site-info

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Statistics

• Add Oracle support to server wide stats

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Syllabus

• iSyllabus linking and link migration• Allow inline editing for Instructors in Table

of Contents view for Syllabus• Bulk Update Syllabus Items• Create a Table of Contents Style view for

Syllabus• iSyllabus should be able to discover and

link to new entities• Add Start and End Dates to Syllabus and

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System Administration

• Allow users to have to accept terms and conditions when validating a new account.

• A better admin tool for managing site perms tool • Improve language list to be readable for non-

English speaking user• A new permission to view realms but not modify

them• A way to see running jobs and have ability to kill

them• Import a CSV of users in the Admin Users tool• Ability to lock a user account• Allow configuration to turn quartz on/off on a

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Test and Quizzes

• Admin ability to allow editing of a published assessment in a specific site

• A new calculated question type with the ability to have questions which contains variables, a method of setting the range of those variables and the number of questions to be generated of that type.

• Numeric answer can be based on a formula• Replace floats with doubles to increase precision• Instructor can unshare another instructor's

question pool which has been shared with her• Multiple Choice: All or Nothing scoring option• Use jQuery UI Accordion for assessment settings

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Statistics

• Event Log that Tracks Entries, Submissions, and Errors

• Update events in assessments• Add missing events tracking for view

activity on Announcements, Chat, Gradebook, Podcasts, Schedule, Web content, and Wiki

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Student Success Plan

• Integration with Student Success Plan - http://www.studentsuccessplan.org

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Sign Up tool (may be added to Core)

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Sign Up tool (may be added to Core)

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Paying down “technical debt”

• Spring Annotations• Hibernate• Audio improvements (deprecate Java

applet)• JQuery

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CommunityWhy Sakai community source?

• Flexibility - Take a different version and merge the fixes you need or work off a particular revision, etc.

• Flexibility - Educational Community License 2.0 - based on Apache License 2.0

• Flexibility - How you wish to participate in the community or not. How you wish to configure and customize or not.

• Flexibility - Properties. Many features can be turned on or off using simple properties in sakai.properties text file.

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34Statistics courtesy of http://www.ohloh.net/

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/07/tech-officials-weigh-big-data-moocs-and-open-source

Market Share

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http://qa1-nl.sakaiproject.org/international/

Translation Statistics

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Worldwide Presence

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One reported install: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Iran, Italy, Korea, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore

225 reported schools worldwide.

Missing some commercial partner customers and other unreported installs. About 300-350 worldwide enterprise installs is a good estimate.

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New Standard for IntegrationIMS LTI

• 33 out of 70 institutions taking the survey reported using LTI for one or more tool integrations - 47%

• 27 non-homegrown external tools integrated at one or more institutions

• 7 institutions on the survey use LTI to connect at least one home-grown tool (5 of 7 have more than one homegrown integration)

Examples of tools integrated with LTI• Web conferencing• Video platforms• Wikis,• Portfolio systems• Plagiarism detection• Library system• Clickers, • Video collaboration/markup,• …. and more 40

Or Do It Yourself(Cafe de Programador)

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How does Sakai happen?El hada de Sakai?

42http://tigroo92.ouvaton.org/Contributions-fees.html

EXAMPLES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

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FOR TEACHERS(PARA MAESTROS)

• Teaching and Learning group• Robust, Mature, Teaching

tools

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Future of Sakai?

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Peer AssignmentsGroup Assignments

Calculated Questions in Samigo

Git/Github for near future?

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PREGUNTAS O DISCUSÍON

Creative Commons Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stretching_cat.jpg

Discussing war image is in Public Domain

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