1. The spider in the web
Toledo as a central digital learning environment
for the Association K.U.Leuven
Ilse Depré
toledo@kuleuven.be
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2. Overview
History
Toledo in figures
Support
Functionalities
Links
Conclusion
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3. Overview
History
Toledo in figures
Support
Functionalities
Links
Conclusion
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4. Toledo
Toetsen en leren doeltreffend
ondersteunen
To support testing and learning in an
efficient way
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5. Toledo at the K.U.Leuven
Started in september 2001
Virtual learning environment,
consisting of:
Blackboard Learning System
Questionmark Perception
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6. Timeline
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
Sept 01 Sept 02 Sept 03 Sept 04
Start K.U.Leuven
Automatisation
Communities
Link SAP
Extra tools
Blackboard 6
Start GDLO
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8. 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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9. 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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10. The need for a common VLE
To work together on the field of e-
learning
To create a professional learning
environment for students throughout
their studies
To create a learning portal for the
institutions, with a link to the
Association
To stimulate collaboration between
different institutions
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11. Challenges
Integration with different
administrative systems
Non unique course and student id’s
Distributed authentication
Educational portal function for each
institution
Bridges to other e-learning solutions
Increase in users and courses
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12. 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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25. Servers Toledo (2007)
Blackboard
Lb1 Lb2 Lb3
App1 eloV App2 eloV Collab eloV App1 Toledo App2 Toledo App3 Toledo App4 Toledo Collab Toledo
Db 1 Db 2 NAS NAS
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26. Overview
History
Toledo in figures
Support
Functionalities
Links
Conclusion
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27. Support model
Software development/support Blackboard
Questionmark
Central Toledo support
K.U.Leuven
GDLO
Advisory board
Institution
User groups Local admins / helpdesk
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Students Staff Others
28. Toledoteam
System support Bb / QMP
Data management Bb / QMP
Development Bb / QMP
User Support Bb/QMP
Application management Bb / QMP
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29. 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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30. 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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31. 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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35. Overview
History
Toledo in figures
Support
Functionalities
Links
Conclusion
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36. Links
REPOSITORIES LEARNING TOOLS
AUTHENTICATION
VideoLAB QM Perception
QMWise
Library Peer Assessm.
Shibboleth
Building block Webservices Wiki farm
Blogservice
Shibboleth
Bb
Shibboleth
Idiomatic
Single sign-on
building block uSolvIT
Building block
ADMINISTRATIVE
DATA ICT TOOLS
External users Intermediate Building block
Tolinto
Webservices
Database Webmail
BB API’s Hib API’s Building block Shibboleth
Mail
Parser Course Status tool Storage
Community tool Intranet
IMS xml
Enrollment tool
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37. Data management (2001)
LEGACY DATA
BLACKBOARD
campus
management
Challenge
One time database operation
1. Users: staff / students
application server
2. Courses: study programmes
campus
learning
3. Enrollments: instructors
management
environment
compulsory courses database server
1. users
2. courses Course Catalog
3.Enrollments: – memberships
enrollments optional courses
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38. Data management (2002)
LEGACY DATA
BLACKBOARD
campus
management
Nightly
updates
student module Enrollments
intermediate Organizations
staff module
database Course Status
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39. Data management (2004)
LEGACY DATA
? Challenge
institute A need for
BLACKBOARD
institute B •portable
institute C •cross-platform
•standardized
institute D
data transfer
institute E
! Approach
Perl
IMS compliant XML
Nightly admin module Local support
updates
Parser
student module Enrollments
intermediate Organizations
staff module
database Course Status
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40. Data management (2006)
LEGACY DATA
institute A institute H
BLACKBOARD
institute B institute H
institute C institute H
institute D institute H
institute E institute H
institute H institute H
institute H
Webservices
Nightly admin module Local support
updates
student module Enrollments
intermediate Organizations
staff module
database Course Status
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45. Intermediate database
Structured study programmes
Official versus optional enrollments
Admin data for other tools (not
storable in Blackboard)
Enrollment module
Course status
Community module (organizations)
Extra data for building blocks
Basic Portfolio template tool
Group, Peer & Self assessment Toledoteam
49. Course status
Linked with enrollment module
Association
Institution (default)
Study programme
Closed
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50. 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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52. Shibboleth
Federated management of users
Authentication
Authorization to apps based on
attributes
Privacy is central
Based on open standards
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53. Shibboleth
K.U.Leuven Where are you from?
Who are
you?
Page x
Login
handle
Password
Attributes?
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58. Links to other ICT-tools
Webmail (building block)
Tolinto (SSO)
Numerous applications in institutions
(Shibboleth)
Mail
Webdrive
Databases
…
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63. 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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