1. Integrating Google Tools with Sakai Duffy Gillman Sr. Software Engineer The rSmart Group David Haines CTools Developer Digital Media Commons University of Michigan

2. 2 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 CONTEXT And Now Here’s Some...

3. 3 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Offerings... are Vast......we are covering a small patch of ground today. CLE Integration - OAE had its own efforts Augmentation of - One could build a Google LMS CLE interesting... but not our focus

4. 4 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Why Are We Thinking About This? Infrastructure - Google is likely to be a university email and calendar provider. Extension - Google provides tools we can’t afford to make. Innovation - Google allows simple creation of web tools through App Engine. Compatibility - Lots of work is done in Google by faculty and students. How can those artifacts be available in Sakai?

5. 5 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What Does Google Have to Offer? ?

6. 6 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What Does Google Have to Offer? ? search document editing storage video email social networking blogging chat forums site hosting/ editing...to name a few things SSO grouping federation

7. 7 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Why Might We Want These Functions From Google? Offloading Maintenance/Support Cloud/Scalability Well-developed UI (mostly) Google Market Share/Cachet Student/Faculty Use Growth of Apps for Education “Bang for the Buck” Common integration across tools (?) Collaboration outside of institution

8. 8 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 HISTORY And Now Here’s Some...

9. 9 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 2008 Call to Community https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/S AKDEV/Google+Integration

10. 10 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Community Interest Responses from 18 individuals (17 institutions) Non-scientifically produced summary of interest: Link to Google Doc Edit Google Doc Embed Google Gadget Integrate gTalk Replace Calendar Integrate Calendar feed YouTube Lecture Videos Offline Sakai Sakai Sites -> Google Groups Sakai within Google Sites Single Sign-On (SSO) Source: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Google+Integration

11. 11 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What Has Sakai Community Done? Sakai Maps (Edia) Google Docs (rSmart) reCAPTCHA (?) Gradebook2 (GWT) BLTI for Google App Engine (Dr. Chuck) iGoogle Widget for CamTools (Cambridge)

12. 12 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 THOUGHTS ON INTEGRATION And Now for Some...

13. 13 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Why Does Google Matter (here)? Offers free / cheap useful tools - Search, Email, Calendar, Docs, Chat Offers new tools - spreadsheet, maps, video Offers infrastructure - Domain customized Google Apps Offers innovation - App Engine for your tools, new tools from Google Already in use by students and faculty

14. 14 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Different Reasons for Integration Replacement - Use Google calendar and email Supplement - Make Google tools seem like Sakai tools (spread sheet, maps....) Make Google documents appear to be Sakai documents Extension - Make it easy to write Google apps that appear to be Sakai tools. Expose - Sakai widgets in iGoogle These are complementary.

15. 15 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 “Easy” Integration Targets Publish Google document in Sakai (rSmart - demo later) Import Google calendar feed BLTI loose integration with Google App engine apps Cambridge iGoogle gadgets

16. 16 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 “Plausible” Integration Targets Based on rSmart approach should be able to make Google artifacts visible as if they were Sakai artifacts with Sakai viewing permissions. E.g. spreadsheets, maps, youtube video Limitations: - Integrating presentation not creation. Creation and editing permissions are all Google. - Versioning: How assure that document doesn't change before grading?

17. 17 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 “Uncertain” Integration Targets Calendar, email archive, resources, chat Replacing infrastructure brings up thorny issues: Permission model -> Google != Sakai Groups -> Google != Sakai

18. 18 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Considerations and Tradeoffs Authz Issues - mapping Sakai / Google concepts and keeping information in synch SSO - Coordinate local and Google login Grading - control of Google artifacts Control / Legal - Enforcement of Institutional policies Flexibility - Dependent on Google implementation and policies

19. 19 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 DISCUSSION of the FUture And Now Here’s A...

20. 20 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What to Expect from Google Appears to be "concrete interest" but we can not (at this point) rely on Google to solve any of these issues Google Docs API 3 Revision History potential requirement for gradable submissions

21. 21 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Potential Projects (a few...) Publish document artifacts for grading Smooth offloading of creation / editing to Google tools OAuth / OpenID compatibility (not just for Google) Calendar integration / replacement Email archive replacement Chat replacement Task list as Sakai tool (as an experiment)

22. 22 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 INTERMISSION And Now for An...

23. 23 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Documents Integration And now here’s a…

24. 24 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What Should it Do?

25. 25 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 “Low Hanging Fruit” Provide Access to Google Documents in Resources Tool Not EVERYTHING... but a good start

26. 26 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Benefits Lets Google do its thing Crazy, Wacky, Web 2.0 ^ Just share the documents

27. 27 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Why not Google in an iframe? Google

28. 28 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Problem: Wrapping Sakai Navigation... (kind of minor)

29. 29 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Problem: Wrapping Google Does Google Know Your Users? In Sakai I may be: duffy@myuniversity.edu Do I even exist in Google? Who Am I There? huggybear_54@gmail.comhuggybear_54@gmail.com ? duffy@gmail.comduffy@gmail.com ?

30. 30 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Problem: Wrapping Google If Google appears in a Sakai iframe, you still need to log in... (somehow)

31. 31 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Problem: Wrapping Google Solution is probably Google Apps for Education, and fancy synchronization work I’ll get to that later...

32. 32 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Without Further Ado... What does it do?

33. 33 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Functions Author Browses Google Docs Assets Document Selected for Link Format Chosen Metadata Set Users in Site May Download via Link Author may Delete Clicking Edit Forwards to Google (where one must log in)

34. 34 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 WHAT’S IT MADE OF And Now..

35. 35 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Docs Integration Code Contributed: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/rsmart/google-content Components: Google Doc ContentResource Entity GoogleDocsService OAuthService Google Docs Link Helper

36. 36 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Dependencies rsmart-common-tool-lib (utilities for UI) oauth (tool for managing oauth providers and tokens)

37. 37 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Java Client APIs Java library encapsulating calls to Google Web Services Provide API Calls for Numerous Google Tools

38. 38 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Java Client APIs

39. 39 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 CONTEMPLATION And Now A Bit Of...

40. 40 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 “But I Still Want Google in an Iframe!” Big issue: synchronizing access control Seems to place requirements on the institution - Google Apps for Education, at the very least Probably also requires Single Sign On (SSO) w/ Google

41. 41 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Google Apps for Education Establishes a Google domain matching your institution’s domain name Provides Google accounts to all your users Red Flag: What about guest accounts? Federated access?

42. 42 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Single Sign-On May not be possible for institution (eg. LDAP authentication) - access rights shared, but multiple login Two methods: Adopt Google as institutional SSO provider Deploy a SAML-based authentication mechanism (both Shibboleth and CAS apply)

43. 43 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Synchronization To be researched; especially performance Sakai would probably push access rules Potentially a Security Advisor in Sakai could reference Google’s access rules

44. 44 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 What’s Next? And Now?

45. 45 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Battle Testing QA for Google Docs has Focused on Bug Elimination......What about Usability?

46. 46 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 That OAuth Thing May Be Useful Potential to build out a general-purpose OAuth Token Manager Movement of Management Tool Into Profile2 (?)

47. 47 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 Use Cases Institutions with Google Apps for Education who Want Tighter Integration

48. 48 12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16 YOUR QUESTIONS And FINALLY, How About...