Course Link Tool for Loosely Engaging Sakai CLE with Student Information System 2 June 2014 1 Shoji Kajita Ko-ichiro Tonomura
May 20, 2015
Course Link Tool for Loosely Engaging Sakai CLE
with Student Information System
2 June 2014
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Shoji Kajita Ko-ichiro Tonomura
KYOTO
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Kyoto
Tokyo
l An ancient city (1,500year)
l Japanese old capital
l International city l many tourist love J l 10,000,000 tourist par
year
Kyoto University l The second oldest national university of
Japan, which was established in 1897
l Very well-known for its high research quality
l Many winners of international awards ü 8 Nobel Prize Laureates
l The long tradition of academic freedom and students are expected to make self-reliant learning.
l How students are enjoying the Freedom of Kyoto University?
Kyoto University l Doctoral / Research university-extensive l 37 institutions of Higher Education l Academics/Staff members: 5,500 l UnderGraduate students 13,500 l Graduates students 9,300
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Academic Calendar and Courses registration of KU
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1st Semester (Spring) Apr. 1 First Semester Begins Apr. 7 Entrance Ceremony Aug. 6 - Sep.30 Summer Vacation Sep.30 First Semester Ends
2nd Semester (Autumn) Oct. 1 Second Semester Begins Dec.29 - Jan. 3 Winter Vacation Mar. 27 Graduation Ceremony Mar. 31 Second Semester Ends
l 2-SemesterSystem l Most students enroll in
spring semester l Course Registration via
SIS : about 2 weeks l 25 faculties/Schools have
about 13,000 course l Most major user is
Institute of liberal arts. l A few faculties (Science,
Pharmacology) do not use course registration.
Blackboard CE8
2012 ,1st 2012,2nd
CLE 2.9.0 Pilot
Designing
History of Sakai CLE at KU
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2013 ,1st 2013,2nd
CLE 2.9.0 Début! J
2014,1st
CLE 2.9.2 CLE 2.9.2 avec Course Link Tool
l Autumn 2012: Pilot Version Sakai CLE 2.9.0 with 18 courses
l Spring 2013: Début ! J BlackBoard CE8 was retired.
l Autumn 2013: Sakai CLE 2.9.2 l Spring 2014: Starting Course Link Tool
Integration of Sakai CLE with SISFaculties Graduate Schools
Courses
2012 Autumn 1(*) 2,7372013 Spring 15 7,8392013 Autumn 22 10,319
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(*) Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences
l Using SAKORA for data integration l Membership data : 225,079 cols (2013) l Data Loading time :
l 22 hours for CourseOffering l 9 hours for Membership
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courses membership courselinktool
Faculty of Letters ✔ ✔ -
Faculty of Education ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Law ✔ ✔ -
Faculty of Economics ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Science ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Medicine(Medical Science) ✔ - ✔
Faculty of Medicine(Health Sciences) ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Engineering ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Agriculture ✔ ✔ ✔
Faculty of Integrated Human Studies ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Letters ✔ ✔ -
Graduate School of Education ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Law - - -
Graduate School of Economics ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Science - - -
Graduate School of Medicine - - -
Graduate School of Medicine(Human Health Science) ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences - - -
Graduate School of Engineering ✔ - ✔
Graduate School of Agriculture ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Energy Science ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Informatics ✔ - ✔
Graduate School of Biostudies ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies ✔ ✔ ✔
School of Government - - -
Graduate School of Management ✔ ✔ ✔
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences ✔ ✔ ✔
Facu
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Gra
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Evolving of Sakai Users in KU
Faculties Graduate Schools
Courses Course Sites On Sakai CLE
2012 Autumn 1(*) 2737 282013 Spring 15 7839 592013 Autumn 22 10319 85
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l Through the number of courses is increased, but number of Course sites do not so. L
(*) Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Why?
Lowering barriers is essentiall Because! Japanese faculties dislike a
any changes for their teaching styles.
l They hate the job for education. l They want research.
l They feel barriers to use Sakai.
l For Example・・・
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A barrier : How many steps faculty has to click for creating a course site?
1.Login
2.WorkSite Setup
3.Select Course Site
4.Select A Semester
6.Setting Information
7.Choice tools
Completed!
5.Select Your coures
1.Login
2.WorkSite Setup
3.Select Course Site
4.Select A Semester
6.Setting Information
7.Choice tools
Completed!
5.Select Your course
7 steps More then 10 clicks !
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What we should to
do?
That’s why we developed
the Courselink tool.
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System Overview
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Student Information System (KULASIS at KU)
Learning Management System (PandA at KU)
Courses Info Registration Info
Courses Info Registration Info
SAKORA
Course Link Tool (using Entity Broker)
Course Link Tool
1. Easy to Create course sites. ü Only 3 steps to create a Course site
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How many steps faculty has to click for creating a course site?
1. Click an URL
2.Login
3.Confilmation
Completed!
https:///direct/courselink/_kcd=XXX_XXXX_XXXX 3 steps Less then 4
clicks !
1. Click an URL
2.Login
3.Confilmation
Completed!
2014-888-9999
Parameters
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https:///direct/courselink/_kcd=XXXXXXXXXXX
l Courselink tool create a course site from URL parameter (course code).
l In the case of kyoto university, We are using same IDs both SIS and LMS.
Example of a course code
Year Institute Code Course Code
Course code
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Students
No
Yes
the registration
database
The course code is found in the registration
database.
Others Instructor
Create a course site
Instructor of the course? Students enrolled in the course?
Others?
Log the request as rejected
Request for a course site creation
A course site specified by the course code has already been
created?
Yes
No
https:///direct/courselink/_kcd=XXXXXXXXXXX
Course code
course site
Course Link Tool
1. Easy to Create course sites. ü Only 3 steps to create a Coursesite
2. Students’ requests for course site creation
ü Student pressure allows us to increase the number of course sites.
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SIS with Course Link Tool
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l Even if a instructor does not access a LMS, but He access the SIS…
Result
Faculties Graduate Schools
Courses Course Sites
2012 Autumn 1(*) 2737 282013 Spring 15 7839 592013 Autumn 22 10319 852014 Spring 25 12789 196
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(*) Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences
l SIS Users: 15,504 l LMS Users: 5,844 (by the roster) l Courses: 196
Future Challengesl Single Sign On Ø Shibolized KULASIS (SIS) Ø Casified PandA (Sakai CLE)
l Open-sourced Ø Available on Sakai msub
repository in summer l Minor fixes Ø UUID-based Site Id
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Thank you! J l Apereo foundation
l NS Solution CO LTD, Programming courselink tool.
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