Sakai at
University of Michigan
International Virtual Learning Environment Conference
May 13,14 2010
Beijing
John Leasia
Director, CTools Implementation Group
jleasia@umich.edu
Today’s presentation
About University of Michigan
Our role in Sakai
CTools – our implementation of Sakai
Infrastructure, Staffing
Interesting uses, Portfolio
Our active development
What is on the horizon
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 Founded 1817
One of the first US public universities
2 Professors, 7 students
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U of M today
 5,500+ faculty, 51,000+ students
 3 Campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint)
 19 separate schools & colleges
100+ Programs
5,500+ undergraduate courses per term
588 Majors
600 student organizations
 Research – 1B+
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UM and Sakai
 um.Coursetools
▫ Business school special project 1999
▫ Developed into LMS system
▫ um.Worktools spinoff, research/projects 2000
 CHEF project 2001
▫ First run at open source, standards
▫ Had momentum, new/solidified standards emerged
▫ Pilot 2002
 SAKAI 2003
Bring project/research and course collaboration back under one system
▫ UM, IU, MIT, Stanford & Mellon Grant
uPortal, Foothills
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UM – China Relationship
 UM hosts China Visiting Scholars
▫ Dr. Qing Li – October 2007
▫ Dr. Zhiqing Zhang – June 2009
 UM – China University
Leadership Forum
▫ May 15-29 2010
June 2005
President Coleman leads
delegation to Beijing and
Shanghai
May 2006
Inaugural Michigan-China
University Leadership Forum
May 2006
Jen Zhu appointed coordinator for
Chinese Initiatives
2007 School Year
"China Now" theme semester
May 2008
Second Michigan-China University
Leadership Forum
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CTools stats
 Today
40,051
33,914
2,593
154,873
Total course sites to date
Total project sites to date
GradTools student sites
Total My Workspaces to date
9,640 Max concurrent users
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CTools – example project sites
Oxford Exam Schedule W10
SSW Alumni Board of Governors
NABPLEX MJPE
ELI Con Bio & LUP
MKT605-Restaurants
Web RFP
CIC APPS
Thronton - Gavini Research Site
Econ 101 Final
Raph Virus
ETEPP Research Project for 431
US/China sustainability conference
EECS460 gsi
EECS373
Grad Entrepreneurship
alpha Kappa Delta Ph
Senior Design 2010-2011
NICU Journal Club
Dissertation Data
My Space
2010 Tornado Camp
MKT 312 Project
Tamar Blanc
UMDT
Project Nur
Michigan Snowboard Club
Save The Whales
April 19 Concert videos
Research Info for Faculty
Biology Club
Chi Omega Points
Histart (n)
AAASIST
Meyer Prize 2010
SEOUL JUICE W10
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CTools integrations
 Peoplesoft – registrar data
Also textbook info, course evaluation orders
 Single signon - Cosign
Provides
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Ease of use when moving between apps
Course Rosters – automatically handle
drops/adds
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Out of cluster App server
(search, other tasks)
NetApp Filer
Application servers
7 TB
Netscaler sprayer
Database cluster
Dell 1950, 16GB RAM
Apache/tomcat 6GB Heap
64-bit RHEL 5.x
UM
xISBN
Grad School
Sun Fire T5120, 128 GB RAM
Solaris 10 OS
Oracle 10g (10.2.0.4)
Library
Reserves
Cosign – UM
Single signon
www
Enterprise systems
(e.g. Registrar)
UMIAC DB
intermediate
Full updates daily
Changes every 2 hrs
iTunes U
Other Web
content
CTools Infrastructure
Development, Test systems
Nightly
Integration
QA Testing
Load Testing
Development
Developers
CTools Releases
 Typical progression
▫ Developer’s laptop > CTDev > Test > Production
▫ Nightly – leading edge, prototypes
▫ Integration – tests involving enterprise systems
 Releases –
▫ Fall term large release,
Winter, Summer terms occasionally
▫ Bug fix releases as needed
 Build scripts – automate the many builds
 Dev wiki to coordinate release content
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Monitoring
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Monitoring
 Critical periods - End of term, Evaluations
▫ Extra attention
▫ Monitoring every hour
▫ ‘Crunch’ reports
▫ Daily status conference call
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CTools configurations
 Site Types
▫ Course, Project, GradTools, My Workspace
▫ We don’t auto-create sites
(Instructors create course sites at their option)
 Roles
▫ Owner, Instructor, Assistant, Student, Observer, Librarian, Affiliate
▫ Owner, Organizer, Member, Observer
 Account Types
▫ Uniqname (UM affiliated); can create sites
▫ Friend (anyone else); cannot create sites
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CTools customizations
 Customized standard tools
▫ Assignments
• Single file upload – new students
• Large sites – first page search option
• Additional metadata
▫ Forums – extended statistics
▫ TestCenter - reporting
▫ Course Evaluations – external orders
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CTools customizations
 Custom tools
▫ Textbook, uBook
▫ Engineering Honor Code (Web Content clone)
▫ Evaluate This Course (Web Content clone)
▫ Generic URL
▫ Library Help, Library Reserves
▫ GradTools / Checklist
▫ My Courses
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Textbook, uBook
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Textbook info entered in PeopleSoft
Info is part of feed to CTools
Textbook tool in user My Workspaces
Also – uBook
student to student book market
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Web Content ‘clones’
ctools.umich.edu/portal/directtool/sakai.rsf.evaluation?sakai.site=~
www.engin.umich.edu/students/honorcode/
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Library Help, Library Reserves
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Gradtools
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My Courses
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CTools LTI tool integrations
LectureTools
SAMS (Student Assignment Management System)
 Allows an LMS to launch an External Tool and
securely provide user identity, course information,
and role information to the external tool
 Uses a HTTP POST through the browser – secured
by the OAuth security (www.oauth.net)
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Basic LTI
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LectureTools – LTI integrated
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LectureTools – LTI integrated
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Student Assignment Management System
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SAMS – LTI integrated
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SAMS – LTI integrated
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Support, Training, Documentation
 Support staff
▫ 1 Full time, several student part time
▫ Footprints support queue, live (IM) help,
phone help, walk-in
 ‘Field’ support – experts at the unit level
 Documentation – part time writer
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Other staff
 Development
▫ 4-6 FTE development Sakai and CTools
User Interface, tool development, builds
 IT
▫ 2-4 FTE DBA, infrastructure admins
 Instructional Design
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Using CTools
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mPortfolio
Sweetland Freshman writing sample
Med – groups, same site from term to term
Introductory Spanish - schedule as assignment tool
Law portal
Business School MAP
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mPortfolio
MPortfolio is the University of Michigan
implementation of ePortfolio: a mix of
technology, pedagogy and assessment strategies
intended to advance the cause of learning at
Michigan.
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mPortfolio
Reflect. Connect. Demonstrate.
Students reflect on their past experiences.
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mPortfolio
Reflect. Connect. Demonstrate.
Students connect their past experiences into philosophy and goals statements.
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mPortfolio
Reflect. Connect. Demonstrate.
Students demonstrate their transformative stories as ePortfolios.
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mPortfolio Use
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Large sites – Freshman writing
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Med School
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Med School
CSS
Javascript
html
Flash
Dreamweaver
Frames
Video
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Schedule as Assignment tool
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Law School Portal
CTools as a provider!
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Business School
Multidisciplinary Action Projects
MAP06002BordersGroup
MAP06009ChipGanassi
MAP06018BJServices
MAP06021AveryDenniso
MAP06031BASF
MAP06044ExpressDigit
MAP06046EthiconEndo
MAP06047DowChemical
MAP06049FordMotor
MAP06050Cisco
MAP06051Cummins
MAP06055ToyotaFinan
MAP06058ToyotaMotor
MAP06069-3MMedicalDi
MAP06150MakeAWish
MAP06176Vyalex
MAP06200InfosysTech
MAP06203SCJohnson
MAP06206TRWAutomotiv
MAP06209AmericanExpr
MAP06211WhirlpoolEur
MAP06212Intel-I
MAP06213Intel-II
MAP06216Cognifit
MAP06243IADBNicaragu
MAP06246CarbonDisclo
MAP06247WomenforWome
MAP06271EirGenPharma
MAP06275GaltyTech
MAP06279OrthoMediTec
MAP06280ErythroSave
MAP06281AngioSlide
MAP06283EndoCross
MAP06284AccessSurgic
MAP06300Xmap-IndianI
MAP06301XMAP-NESsT1
MAP06302XMAP-NESsT2
MAP06274Pharmaflow
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Business School
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CTools – current development
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Assignment 2, Gradebook 2
‘Docs’ – new Resources UI
Test Center reporting
Checklist – GradTools replacement
Teaching Evaluations – automations (UM specific)
Assignments – never ending
mPortfolio
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Development – on the horizon
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Integration with campus video streaming
Math equation editor
CK editor – FCK replacement
Sakai 3
Mobile apps, large sites, reduce time from
idea to release
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Sakai at
University of Michigan
International Virtual Learning Environment Conference
May 13,14 2010
Beijing
John Leasia
Director, CTools Implementation Group
jleasia@umich.edu