1. Portal and Learning Systems
Integration
Jim Farmer
As presented at the Jefferson Overseas Schools Technology Institute
June 20, 2006 | Fairfax, Virginia USA

2. What is a portal?

3. With portlets Portlet B Portlet A uPortal Framework Portlet C
Portlet D
uPortal
database

4. The original “portal”

5. The original “portal”

6. Denison University

7. Jon’s Sakai-like layout

8. Role-based presentations

9. CalPoly San Luis Obispo

10. CalPoly San Luis Obispo

11. Student view of grades

12. Teacher view of grades

13. In the U.S. for students under 18 or with student permission
Parent view of grades
In the U.S. for students under 18 or with student permission

14. Historical progression of use
Aggregation of publicly available information +
Integration with administrative systems (as portlets)
Integration with library systems (as portlets)
Integration with learning systems ?

15. The enterprise portal

16. The e-Framework VLE/LMS MIS General Logistics Library Support Portal
WSRP
Enrollment
VLE/LMS
MIS
Results
General Logistics
Library
Support
Portal
Scott Wilson, Joint Information Systems Council, 18 Nov 2002

17. Enterprise information services
Administration (ERP)
Directory
Authentication
Authorization
Virtual Learning Environment (Learning Management System)
Library
Portal Interface

18. The enterprise portal Enterprise Portal (aggregation and presentation)
Finance
Learning and Research Environment
Administration
Security
Workflow
Enterprise Integration Bus

19. The integration project: Moodle and uPortal Basic integration has been accomplished by the ESUP Portail group in France for 50 universities, school districts, and agencies. This integration is available now; a Help Desk is also available.

20. Integrated Moodle

21. Integrated Moodle

22. Course outline view

23. Course introduction view

24. The Georgetown project
Shibboleth federated authentication and authorization (standard for publishers)
+ Moodle authentication/authorization
Link to Moodle (without additional signon) from the portal
Link back to uPortal
Moodle in a uPortal page

25. Beyond integration
Bibliography, citations, and e-publication access via portlets using Shibboleth authentication.
SIFA and PESC administration portlets for students and teachers
Additional Moodle “blocks”

26. Available portlets

27. Streaming Audio and Video
RSS version 1.0 channel
In-line HTML
Streaming Audio and Video

28. Library search portlets – Roles
The interface changes according to the ‘role’ of the current account.
Student
Faculty

29. uPortal and MIT Open Courseware

30. Why uPortal? Differentiation for higher education Cost/performance
Industry and higher education (JISC), services
Multimedia-rich portlets
Internationalization of portal and content
Distributed, aggregated layout (with priorities)
Definition and implementation of portlet “context”
Cost/performance

31. The end jxf@immagic.com jxf@Georgetown.edu

32. Credits
This presentation is based on materials developed for Georgetown University, the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, and Oxford University.
im+m’s Jon Allen provided graphical design and graphics, and suggestions on presentation.

33. Permissions
im+m publications are in the public domain and can be freely reproduced. Information in this presentation was taken from public sources or with permission and can be redistributed.
The presentation itself can be reproduced and redistributed provided there are no changes made to the content and it is reproduced in its entirety.

34. Supplementary material

35. Enterprise portals

36. Denison University

37. University of British Columbia

38. Jon’s view – Dynamic layout

39. Available portlets

40. College announcements
With portlets
WSRP
Regional library
College announcements
Portal
Framework
Administration
Learning system
Portal
database
JSR 168

41. uPortal and MIT Open Courseware

42. uPortal and MIT Open Courseware

43. Select Transcript View

44. eTranscript

45. Or Build Custom View

46. Architecture

47. Directory standards
EDUCAUSE EduPerson Objects + “Best practices” representations
Explicit in OASIS xNAL, xAL, xCIL, xCRL
Implicit in Common Record, SEVIS, Meteor, and CommonLine; PESC transcript and admissions
Explicit in HR-XML (implementation confirmed by key ERP vendors)
Implicit in IMS Enterprise
Implicit in SIF (K-12)

48. Use of SAML Assertions Internet 2 Shibboleth (journal access)
Meteor (student loan data)
eTranscript (student records)
Liberty Alliance (federated authentication)
Shouldn’t the assertions be standardized for higher education?

49. SAML Assertion