ESUP-Portail: A Global Approach of Digital Services for Higher Education in France

Alain Mayeur University of Valenciennes
Mathilde Guérin University of La Rochelle

June 10-15, 2012

Growing Community;
Growing Possibilities

Goals & Strategy

2012 Jasig Sakai Conference 2

 Overview
 Since 2002: Project “Digital working space”

portal of digital services (ENT in France)
 80% of French students and establishments
staff use the platform to access to services
and information
 4 years (since July 2008) for the new
structure (non profit structure with its own
budget)
 70 members in France


 2012 : 17 UNR covering national territory
 More than 90% of students have a digital
working space (ENT)
UNRNPdC
UNR UNR Picardie
Normandie
UNPIdF UNERA
UNRB

UNR PdL UNIRA
UNR C
UNR PCL

UNRA UNR RA

ACOR
UNR Réunion
UNR Midi UNR LR UNR PACA
Pyrénées


 Objectives
 Facilitate learning and campus life for

students... but also the daily work of the
staff members
 Pool the development of digital services to
divide costs between universities
 Share technological evolutions and new
services amongst the members
 Imagine and plan the evolutions of the
French students' personal portal (Espace
Numérique de Travail - ENT)


 Some of the main services that have already
been deployed so far:
 access to LMS
 staff member's personal file
 selective admission management for staff members
and internship candidates
 student electronic office
 digital community management
 mobile services for smartphones
 integration of Content Management System (CMS) in
the students' personal portal


 Strategy
 Solutions are open-source to enable a

constant evolution of tools and services
 Each establishment can adapt the
technological groundwork to fit its own
strategy and needs
 Collaborate with other consortiums such as
Jasig and Sakai, whose solutions are the
basis of the French projects
 Assure the perpetuity, the adaptability, the
technological developments


 Give access to the Information System
depending on the user's profile
 Integration of e-learning platform, access to
pedagogical services, integration of
documentation components…
 Encourage team brainwork and sharing of
experience/feedback
 Support on the standards


Organization


 Organization
 Strategic board composed of 9 people

 Director of the consortium: Alain Mayeur
 Technical Coordination Team: That’s me!

 14 collaborators

 Gatherings:
 4 meetings a year
 annual seminar for global coordination


 Support of the French Ministry of Higher
Education and Research:
 evolution of digital plans and services for
training, employability and academic life
 Financial contributions from the Ministry
and other French local self-governments


 Working Groups
 Work regarding uPortal: package, tutorial, etc.
 Group management: Grouper internet 2
 Portal/CMS
 Communication (mail, calendar, digital desktop)
 ESUP-Mobile
 ECM-Nuxeo
 IHM (ergonomics, look-n-feel, etc.)
 OAE Sakai Group (created in April 2012)


 Framework for development: ESUP-Commons2
 Portlet, web mobile

 Contribution of universities and engineering
schools (development)
 Lively community, encouraging debate
 Mailing lists and Wiki
 ESUP-Days: 2 conferences a year in Paris
 more than 100 participants each time
 #14 on June 27th 2012


 Trainings to help members acquire or
improve their technical skills
 Offered by ESUP Portail members:
 esup-commons-v2 (followed by 90 developers)
 esup-uportal

 Provided by external companies:
 HTML5 / CSS3
 jQuery (UI, mobile, etc.)


 Relationship with Jasig and Sakai
 Increasing our collaboration JASIG/ESUP for
the last 6 years
 Following the reflection and discussion
about the Jasig-Sakai mergence
 Work regarding Jasig solutions

 Work regarding Sakai solutions


esup-uportal


 Packaging & configuration
 Create French package
 Centralize configuration properties into one
file and/or encourage the use of runtime
environment properties
esup.properties
environment.build.ldap.url=ldaps://ldap1.univ.fr:636
environment.build.ldap.pooled=false

LdapContext.xml
<bean id="defaultLdapContext" class="org[...]LdapContextSource">
<property name="url" value="${environment.build.ldap.url}"/>
<property name="pooled" value="${environment.build.ldap.pooled}"/>

</bean>

 Internationalization
 Improve French messages
 Translate default and quickstart entities
 Add/Edit design for French portals


 HCI & UI
 Create new skins
 Tutorial on how to custom the design
 Find French companies to identify as
“privileged partners” for design
customization
 Reflection on usability, ergonomics and
accessibility
 Identify most used customization and
integrate them


 Shibboleth
 Facilitate Shibboleth integration
 Documentation
 Configuration
 Proxy CAS Authentication
 Grouper
 Documentation / Best Practices
 Suggestion of “generic group structure”


 Support
• Continuous support (french mailing-lists)
• Recommendations / Best practices
 Infrastructure, What (not) to do?, …
• General documentation / FAQ
 Data migration, layout management,…
• Find French companies to identify as
“privileged partners” for portal deployment


 esup-indicateurs
• Statistics on portal and services usage
 Who? What? How much?


 Web Services
• “Export” of groups and user attributes…
• … usable from portlets
 Monitoring Servlet
• Real-time data on portal status
 Memory, Threads,…


 esup-uportal4 v1.0
• Beta release: late June 2012
• First production deployment: Sept. 2012
• Widespread adoption: Jan. 2013 and beyond


uMobile


 French packaging?
• Nothing planned for now
 Internationalization
• French Messages
 Development
• Patches
• New features


 Examples of new modules


 New features
 RC release: late 2012
 Deployment in France
 First production deployment: Sept. 2012
 Widespread adoption: Jan. 2013 and beyond


Portlets


 esup-filemanager
• v2.2.0 (May 2012)
• Lets the user access (and manage) their
homedirs
(up/download, rename, delete, move, ...)


 esup-lecture
• v2.0-RC8 (GA: late 2012)
• Aggregates XML feeds (RSS, RDF, …) and
handles the users' preferences
(subscription, (un)read items,...)


 esup-annuaire2
• v0.2.2 (June 2012)
• Searches through a LDAP directory for
students, staff members or structures


 esup-messages
• v2.0.0-SNAPSHOT (RC1: late June 2012)
• Lists mails in the user's inbox and displays the
mail content


 esup-twitter
• v0.6 (March 2012)
• To follow someone’s tweets


 esup-portlet-sympa
• v4.0 (November 2011)
• Displays the mailing-lists the user has
subscribed to or is the owner (or moderator) of


The How and the Why


 The How
• The new GIYF: “Google Git(Hub) Is Your Friend”
jasig EsupPortail

esup-uportal
uPortal Fork

uPortal
Pull request

uMobile-app uMobile-app
Fork

Pull request

• Contributing in mailing-lists and joining specific WGs


 The Why
•…
• Really?!
•…
• Do you even have to ask?!


Feedback on OAE


 Sakai CLE
• Sakai CLE in two French universities
 UPMC: used as an e-learning platform
 ULCO: used as a teaching and collaborative tool
• Mainly used in two French universities for
collaborative needs (Poitiers, Valenciennes)
• Presentations in 2 of our ESUP-Days
 July 5th 2007: Sakai functionalities and usage at
UPMC
 July 2nd 2010: evolution of Sakai deployment and
method of integration in ESUP Portail


 Sakai OAE
• Deployment of test instances in 3 universities
• Powerful ergonomic environment:
 Simultaneous collaborative writing and
document sharing
 Different levels of workspaces
 Various settings available


 Mainly focus on collaborative activities
• Staff collaboration
• Teacher/student or student/student collaboration
 An asset as a collaborative tool
• Student projects and internship
• Collaborative assignments
 May respond to future portfolio needs
• External users
• Document sharing


 Main limitations (early 2012)
• “Poor” online documentation
• Customizing styles seems laborious
• No quota limit
• * No French translation
• * Needs to be compatible with the French
digital workspaces (ENT) and CAS

* : now available


 Conclusion (early 2012)
• Quite different from the LMS solutions used in
French establishments
 Is such a migration worth it?

• Some tools, praised by teachers in our LMS
solutions, seem to be missing
 Tests, tracking, …

To be used in addition to regular LMS as a
social network and collaborative tool


ESUP SakaiOAE Working Group


 Creation of the ESUP SakaiOAE Working Group
 Objectives
• Maintaining the French version
• Organizing thematic days with feedbacks of
partners
• Thinking about implantation strategy in the
information system of establishments
• Widget development


 Roadmap
• First meeting: Sept. 2012
 What? Who? When? => to define the roadmap!

 Concretely speaking...
• JIRA tickets
• The return of GIYF Git(Hub) Is Your Friend


2012 and beyond...


 Objectives
• New French esup-uportal package
• Customized skins (uPortal, OAE, etc.)
• Grouper: user profile management
• New features/services
•…
• And increase collaboration with Jasig and Sakai!


Questions?


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