1. 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
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Brian Nielsen, Northwestern University
Nate Angell, rSmart, Sakai
Tom Murdock, Moodlerooms
Brian Whitmer, Instructure

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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,

5. Bboogle functionality
Instructor creates a link
My Courses

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

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

8. Canvas examples

9. Canvas: Connecting to Google Docs

10. 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).

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

12. Moodle Repositories and Portfolios

13. 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,

14. What is the CMS?

15. What is the Cloud?

16. What is the CMS and the Cloud?

17. Bringing in the Cloud

18. Pushing out to the Cloud

19. What is Core?

20. Where is the edge?

21. What are the rules?

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

23. Resources http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Google_Apps_Inte gration
standards-based-integration-work/
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24. Q & A More resources at: http://www.educause.edu/E2011/Program/SESS046
The CMS and the Cloud
Q & A
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