Sakai OAE Deployment and Management de Max Whitney

Sakai OAE Deployment and Management

Max Whitney

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iun 2012

The Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) provides a unique collaboration system for university campuses: a social network that helps students discuss class materials, pursue research, communicate with faculty, and discover the risks and benefits of sharing personal information--all in a private, rather than public, forum. This example-driven guide will get you up to speed on various methods used to deploy, customize, and manage OAE, whether you're an IT specialist in an educational institution, or an academic or instructional technologist.

Learn how to work with OAE's source code to modify key areas such as profiles, courses, permissions, and content. You'll soon adapt this network to support the culture and needs of your campus.

Create research projects and online companions for lecture courses Learn about the range of OAE's public and privacy settings Customize OAE's look and feel, including the welcome screen, drop-down menus, and sign-up pages Connect to a local LDAP to work with accounts and authentication Install widgets to extend and customize OAE's core functionality Integrate OAE with a web server and backend database Get a checklist for deploying your custom OAE to production

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Cuprins

Preface; A Note on Names; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Content Updates; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Why Sakai?; 1.1 Putting Course Materials Online; 1.2 Collaboration; 1.3 A Protected Space; 1.4 The Open Source Orientation; Chapter 2: Installing Sakai OAE; 2.1 The Quickest Install: Web Start; 2.2 Binary Install; 2.3 Building from Source; Chapter 3: A Whirlwind Tour; 3.1 Choose Your Browser; 3.2 Create Your First Account; 3.3 Create Your Profile; 3.4 Create a Course and a Research Project; 3.5 Changing the Dashboard; 3.6 The Public Face of Sakai; Chapter 4: Making the Look and Feel Your Own; 4.1 Configure OAE for CSS, Property, and JavaScript Changes; 4.2 Modifying Labels in the User Interface; 4.3 Internationalization and Localization; 4.4 Changing the CSS: Paint It Pink; 4.5 Changing Drop-Down Menus; 4.6 Categories; 4.7 Troubleshooting; 4.8 Change the Landing Page; 4.9 Changing the Sign Up and Error pages; 4.10 Rebundle OAE; Chapter 5: LDAP Integration; 5.1 Set Up a Mini LDAP Instance; 5.2 Build and Install the OAE LDAP Modules; 5.3 Choose Your Configuration (and Configure It); 5.4 Advanced Topics: Cracking Open the LDAP Authentication Plug-in; 5.5 Removing the Self-Service Functions; Chapter 6: Building On; 6.1 A Very Simple Dashboard Widget: JISC Content Browser; 6.2 A Group Widget: Simplified Comments; 6.3 A Complex Widget: Walking Time Map; Chapter 7: Scaling Up; 7.1 The Basics; 7.2 Integrating with a Database Backend; 7.3 Set Up a Web Server; 7.4 The Preview Processor; 7.5 Separating Solr; 7.6 Starting Clean; 7.7 The Checklist;

Descriere

This book is for Academic Technologists, Instructional Technologists, and IT specialists in Higher Ed institutions who need to get up to speed with Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) quickly. This book is designed to be read in a weekend, with examples that can be implemented in a week of dedicated work.