Integrating Cloud Services into Course Management Systems The CMS and the Cloud The CMS and the Cloud: Integrating Cloud Services into Course Management Systems A panel of presenters representing four course management systems will demonstrate how each has integrated cloud services. We will describe opportunities for modeling new learning activities and share specific examples of their use in student assignments. EDUCAUSE 2011, Wednesday October 19, 4:50 – 5:40, Meeting Room 103-C Document metadata for Creative Commons: Brian Nielsen, Northwestern University Nate Angell, rSmart, Sakai Tom Murdock, Moodlerooms Brian Whitmer, Instructure

Our panel's direction Why do it? What's been done? The CMS and the Cloud Our panel's direction Why do it? What's been done? What successes?  What failures? What’s next? From Jordan Pedraza, Google: 14 million students, faculty and staff using Apps for Edu 61 of the top 100 schools using Apps for Edu Thousands of universities using Apps for Edu For K-12, we have statewide agreements to support Apps for Edu in 8 states

Why do it? Faculty demand Student ease of use The CMS and the Cloud Why do it? Faculty demand Student ease of use   Adding services at low cost Aggregation of students in classes Cite Michael Corn , “Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality is a Sober Adversary” ECAR report, 2009, #12, June 16, 2009 Sr vp prod mgmt, analytics platform David ashman Clayton The liaison with bd: Obadiah greenberg: from Google Apps for Education

What's been done: Northwestern and Blackboard The CMS and the Cloud What's been done: Northwestern and Blackboard   An add-in providing student access to Docs, Sites, Calendar Instructors are able to make links directly to GAE objects Permissions for these objects are set through the linking process RefWorks, Xythos (FileBridge), Sharepoint, Plone,

Bboogle functionality Instructor creates a link My Courses

Northwestern’s experience   bit.ly/bboogle-video  Bboogle Teams in Beta

Canvas in the Cloud Native to the Cloud “Of the web” Open architecture Basic LTI for standardization

Canvas examples

Canvas: Connecting to Google Docs

Moodle functionality Moodle Repositories.  Grabbing your content from different parts of the web. Moodle Portfolios.  Sending your content to different parts of the web.  Moodle implementation of Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI).

Moodle integration "We have a learning object repository already.  It is called the internet."             -- Michael Feldstein

Moodle Repositories and Portfolios

With freedom comes responsibility The CMS and the Cloud With freedom comes responsibility If the student has traversed "out of the LMS" how can results be sent back home? Where is the data stored? Who is responsible for protecting the data? IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) The institution is the authority for the user Users are sent into the LTI experience, then return to the LMS with a grade Student experiences can be exactly the same on each LMS platform The CMS has been criticized as an administrative tool,

What is the CMS?

What is the Cloud?

What is the CMS and the Cloud?

Bringing in the Cloud

Pushing out to the Cloud

What is Core?

Where is the edge?

What are the rules?

What’s next? Will more faculty become involved? What are implications for our staff? What are implications for our organizations?

Resources http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Google_Apps_Inte gration http://mfeldstein.com/moodlerooms-doing-great- standards-based-integration-work/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1b2I74aN7 w&feature=player_embedded (Duffy Gillman video, Sakai) http://guides.instructure.com/s/2204/m/4152/l/40 726-How-do-I-connect-to-Google-Docs-

Q & A More resources at: http://www.educause.edu/E2011/Program/SESS046 The CMS and the Cloud Q & A More resources at: http://www.educause.edu/E2011/Program/SESS046