OpenSyllabus in Sakai 2.6 : up and running

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Jacques Raynauld – facultyRémi Saïas – Technical coordination / ScrumMaster

HEC MontréalJune 15 2010

Objectives of the session

• Overview of a new syllabus authoring tool to organize all your Sakai resources and tools

• Convince you of the importance of using some kind of structure or semantic approach for Sakai course websites

• Faculty? Teaching Support? IT? Deans? Students?

• Possible Sakai adoption? 211th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Outline

• HEC Montréal and the origins of the project• Syllabi and Sakai• OpenSyllabus structure and architecture• Quick demo of the tool• Summary, roadmap and questions

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HEC Montréal and the origin of the project

• Large business school • Part of the University of

Montreal campus• 12 000 students• 250 career professors• 500 adjuncts• 4 000 full time undergraduate students• Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus

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Origins of the project

• Learning material disseminated in various course web sites …

• Very confusing for the staff, the students and the public …

• Development of an in-house easy-to-use Web platform to build a centralized electronic syllabi web depot

http://zonecours.hec.ca

• One location• Public and student access• Uniform interface• 95% of the course websites are up and

running in Zone Cours

• Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons

• Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai)

• CRIM and the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases)

• Presentation of the beta version at the Boston meetings

• HEC pilots in the 2010 Winter and Summer terms. Large roll-out in the Fall.

• University of Montréal pilot in the Summer and Fall terms.

Syllabi and Sakai

1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due

PDF - paper• Documents to download

(pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)• Citations• Hyperlinks• Assignments• Quizzes• Discussion Boards• Etc.

Resources - web

Syllabi and Sakai

1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due

PDF - paper

Actual Syllabus tool in Sakai

Post a doc or PDF fileUse an editorNo semantic

Syllabi and Sakai

• Documents to download (pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)

• Citations• Hyperlinks

• Assignments• Discussion Boards• Etc.

Resources - web

Stanford U. , Coursework User Guide

Syllabi and Sakai

Sakai Courseware Management - The Official Guide, p. 170.

Syllabi and Sakai

Faculty Showcase: Amanda Cecil, Using Oncourse CL to choreograph teachable moments in online courses, Indiana University, On Course

OpenSyllabus Architecture

Gerbé and Raynauld, An Open Syllabus Model, Ed-Media 2009, Honolulu.11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Sakai ServerOpenSyllabus Server OpenSyllabus Client –

Google Web Tool kitExchange of XML files between OpenSyllabus server and client

Sakai Tools - Services

OpenSyllabus public gateHTML site created from the XML file

Citation Z39.50 Connector:

MetaSearchEngine

(SirsiSingleSearch,

Web2Bridge …)

Z39.50 Connector

Z39.50

Library of Congress

Etc. …

Z39.50

Linking to Library Resources: Workarounds and Z39.50 Connectors in Sakai

Mame Awa Diop

Quick demo of the toolhttp://vimeo.com/12495226

Demo1. Description of the editing page – buttons – tree

panel (news, list of the lectures) and Sakai tools. View all. The structure and the wordings can be taylored to each university needs.

2. Adding a description in the Presentation section3. Adding a contact4. Adding a textbook citation to Course Material5. Adding a Forum to Course Material

6. Seeing the content of lecture 2 (objective, citation, file, url, exercice)

7. Adding a lecture : The price mechanism8. Adding the objectives9. Adding an article – public – mandatory10. Adding a document – private – recommended11. Adding a quiz – rubric exercice – private –

complementary12. Moving a quiz to lecture 1

13. Discussing the evaluation section – very important for program design – the most semantic

14. Editing an evaluation (evaluation type, adding electronic submission,etc.)

15. Adding an evaluation criteria16. Adding an electronic submission (assignment)

17. Adding a cluster18. Moving a lecture19. Adding another cluster20. Preview21. Publish22. OsylManager (Briefly)

Summary, road map and questions

10 good reasons for OpenSyllabus

1. Student request : What should I do? Where is it?

2. Faculty requests : keep it simple (training)!

3. Easy to modify the templates and keeping their semantic (lectures, themes, modules, etc.)

4. Peak-load solution (GWT client)3211th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

10 good reasons for OpenSyllabus

5. Archive/Share/Import/Export : Lectures/Modules within your universityAcross the Sakai communityEasy migration for us

6. Public gate for the community, future students, parents, etc.

7. Cutting work : PDF printing for students8. Reporting : assessment methods,

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10 good reasons for structured syllabi

9. Dynamic links to your library catalog (Z39.50).

10. Easy to launch a small pilot

Road-map and questions

• Available now for Sakai 2.6• Migration to Sakai 2.7 coming• Sakai 3.0 is natural step since OpenSyllabus

has REST architecture and could be transformed in an Open Social Gadget

Road-map and questions

• Tech Demo Wednesday• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/

OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home• Video : http://vimeo.com/12495226• Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca• jacques.raynauld@hec.ca