Sakai Spanish User (S2U) group meeting in Madrid on November 7, 2013 at Universidad Complutense.

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Sakai and the S2U Community
Sakai y la communidad de S2U
Noviembre 2013
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
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October 28, 2013

2. About me
• Neal Caidin – neal.caidin@apereo.org
• Role
• Relation to Sakai PMC
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3. Presentation Goals
(objectivos presentacíon)
(objectivos presentacíon)
•Discuss the Sakai 2.10 (discutir el proyecto Sakai
•Discuss the Sakai community (discutir la communidad
Sakai)
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CLE Needs You!

4. Sakai Project version status
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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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5. Sakai 2.10
(aka Sakai “Chocolate Pudding”. Hint: not really.)
(aka Sakai “Chocolate Pudding”. Hint: not really.)
• What is the real name?
• What is the rationale for this release?
• Timeline?
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6. Sakai 2.10 Features - Anticipated
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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
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7. 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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8. Announcements
• Reorder Announcements - on by default
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9. 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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10. Chat tool
• Optional start and end date for chat rooms
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11. Dropbox
• Instructor can upload one document to several
students at once.
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12. Editor Improvements
• Upgrade to latest version of CK Editor 4.1.2
• Support for Audio recording
• Word count
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13. Gradebook
• Extra Credit
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14. 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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15. LTI
• Support for LTI 2.0
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16. 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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17. Mobile
• Project Keitai - Phase 1
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Resources
• Ability to hide a folder while allowing access to files
inside it
• Drag and Drop to add files (upload)
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21. Search
• Elastic search default
• Solr search option (Oxford)
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22. 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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23. Statistics
• Add Oracle support to server wide stats
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24. 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 allow
linking to Calendar
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25. 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 server by
server basis
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26. 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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27. 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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28. Student Success Plan
• Integration with Student Success Plan http://www.studentsuccessplan.org
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29. Sign Up tool (may be added to Core)
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30. Sign Up tool (may be added to Core)
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31. Paying down “technical debt”
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Spring Annotations
Hibernate
Audio improvements (deprecate Java applet)
JQuery
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32. Community
Why Sakai community source?
Why 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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34. Statistics courtesy of
http://www.ohloh.net/
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35. Market Share
October 28, 2013
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/07/tech-officials-weighbig-data-moocs-and-open-source
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36. Translation
Statistics
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http://qa1-nl.sakaiproject.org/international/

37. Worldwide Presence
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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40. New Standard for Integration
IMS LTI
IMS 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
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41. Or Do It Yourself
(Cafe de Programador)
(Cafe de Programador)
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42. How does Sakai happen?
El hada de Sakai?
El hada de Sakai?
http://tigroo92.ouvaton.org/Contributions-fees.html
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43. EXAMPLES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
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44. FOR TEACHERS
(PARA MAESTROS)
(PARA MAESTROS)
Teaching and Learning group
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• Robust, Mature, Teaching tools
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45. Future of Sakai?
Peer Assignments
Group Assignments
Git/Github for near future?
Calculated Questions in
Samigo
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46. PREGUNTAS O DISCUSÍON
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47. Creative Commons Images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stretching_cat.jpg
Discussing war image is in Public Domain
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