sakai 2.6 overview peter a. knoop sakai foundation / university of michigan
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Sakai 2.6 Overview
Peter A. KnoopSakai Foundation / University of Michigan
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What’s in Sakai 2.6?
• Sakai 2.6 Overview– Task Level - Jira (issue tracking)– Change Log View - Subversion or SVN (source
repository)– Cross-Project Enhancements– Tool and Service Enhancements
• Beyond 2.6…– Sakai 2.7– Sakai 3
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Sakai 2.6 – Jira
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Sakai 2.6 – SubversionSource Code Repository
• 2.6.x Maintenance Branch– Branched from trunk on 06-Oct-2009– Trunk moving on for 2.7 (Enhancements & Bugs)– Bug Fixes from trunk merged to 2.6.x (and 2.4.x
and 2.5.x) as appropriate• 2.6.0 Release Branch– Branched from 2.6.x on 21-Apr-2009– 2.6.x moving on for 2.6.1– Blocker Bug Fixes from 2.6.x merged to 2.6.0
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Sakai 2.6 Overview
• Cross-Project Activities• Tools• Services
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Cross-Project Activities
• Kernel – Kernel 1.0.0 (or “K1“) released October 2008– Centralize common, core services into a kernel
project, separate from Sakai project.– Bugs addressed in Kernel Maintenance Releases;
most recent is Kernel 1.0.6 for use by Sakai 2.6.0.– Enhancements to K1 occurring in Kernel trunk
(Kernel 1.1) for Sakai 2.7
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Cross-Project Activities
• User Experience (UX) – No major changes from 2.5; enables re-use of
much 2.5 documentation.• Accessibility – Minor improvements in some JSF tags for
keyboard accessibility.
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Cross-Project Activities
• Internationalization & Localization– Support for localized tool names (page names not
currently localized).– Localized date-time picker for velocity-based tools
(e.g., Announcement, Assignment, Schedule, and Resources).
– Localized start-of-week.– Language Translations:• With limited UX changes, many translations carryover.• Work ongoing…
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Cross-Project Activities
• Support for using db2 and WebSphere.• Testing – Improvements to Sakai integration test support.
• Performance – Implementation of a working, proof-of-concept
generic Sakai performance testing environment, including data.
– Establish baseline tests for tools and build a test results library for comparisons among releases.
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Session Time-Out Alert
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View site as if in a different role, a.k.a. Student View
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View site as if in a different role, a.k.a. Student View
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Assignments
• Refactored db to improve performance.– Moved selected meta data from XML blob into
table columns; provided supporting migration code.• Support for multiple submissions of an
assignment on an assignment-wide basis.• Improved cross-tool integration; when an
Assignment opens, expose link to the Assignment in Schedule and Announcement items.
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• Support for custom fields, with timing and role control over when and who can view them.
Assignments – Custom Fields
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Assignments – Model Answer
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Assignments – Private Note
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Assignments – All-Purpose Item
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Blog (Provisional Tool)
• Replaced rendering framework with wicket.• Improved performance of db layer.
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Calendar Summary / Schedule
• Added indicator with number of events to each calendar day.
• Event description is now rich-text.• Improved performance; tool loads faster.
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Schedule – iCal Integration
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Citations Helper
• New configuration option for maximum number of databases to search simultaneously.
• Support for populating direct vendor URLs from Search Library Resources and RIS import.
• General user interface improvements.
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Email Archive
• Performance improvements for handling a large number of messages in the archive.
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Gradebook – Add Multiple Items
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Messages
• Added ability to reply-all.• Option to turn off 'send to email' option in
message composition for a site.
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OSP (Portfolios)
• Improvements to UX.• Ability to edit and delete feedback and evaluations.• Aggregation of Evaluations across sites via My
Workspace.• Better group awareness and filtering in Wizards tool.• Ability to apply an OSP Style to more screens of a
Matrix.• Ability to control allowed general and item-specific
feedback (0, 1, many) in Matrices and Wizards.
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Preferences
• Customize Tabs is now the default initial page; page order defined via property.
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Preferences – Customize Tabs
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Resources
• Notification for items with release dates at release time.
• Zip/Unzip support (2.6.1?)
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Wiki• Added WYSIWYG editor (2.6.1?)
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Tests & Quizzes (a.k.a. Samigo)
• Allow editing a published assessment.• Ability to release assessments to groups.
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User Membership (Provisional Tool)
• Include the created and last modified date on the screen and in the CSV export.
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User Membership (Provisional Tool)
• Filter searching and viewing of users to only those users with the same named usertype(s).
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Worksite Setup/Site Info
• Support for creating sites from templates.• Added option to import and replace (with
deep-delete) content from another site.• Support for optional survey questions during
setup.• Improved support for adding multiple instances
of a tool (e.g., Chat) to a site.• Enhanced group creation; ability to add a role
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WYSIWYG Widget (FCKeditor)
• FCKeditor upgrade to version 2.6.2, which brings in bug fixes and better Safari support.– Upgrade to FCKeditor 2.6.4 coming…
• Optional FCKeditor plug-in to allow users to embed entities (e.g., Simple Page Tool – a Contrib tool).
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Deprecated Tools
• Presentation• Mailtool
• Mailsender (Contrib) replacing Mailtool– A major re-write of the tool.– Switched from JSF to RSF.– Improved recipient selection, email validation, and
group awareness.– Need to gain experience with it.
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Tools with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6• Announcements• Chat• Help• Linktool• Login• Membership• Metaobj• MOTD (Message-of-the-Day)• MyWorkspace• News (RSS)• On-Line• Podcasts• Post'em
• PreferAble• Presence• Reset Password• Roster• Search• Section Info• SUTool• Syllabus• Tab Management• Users• Web Content• Worksite Information
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Services with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6
• Access• Alias• Authz• Build• Calendar• Content-Review• Courier• Database• Entity• Event• IMSTI• JCR• Memory• Portlet• Privacy
• Profile• Quartz Scheduler• Realms• Reports• Rights• Site• Sites• Skins• Test Harness• Tool• Util• Velocity• WebDAV• WSRP
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Services moved to Kernel 1.0
• alias• authz• cluster• component• content• db• email• entity
• event• JCR• memory• site• tool• user• util
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Sakai 2.6 Service Enhancements
• citations – Support for Serials Solutions 360 Search
metasearch engine.– Support for returning direct vendor URLs from
Search Library Resources and RIS import.• cluster [Kernel]– Improved performance by switching to JMS-based
implementation.
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Sakai 2.6 Service Enhancements
• component [Kernel]– Support for more flexible configuration of
components.• content (Content Hosting Service) [Kernel]– Added hooks for virus-scanner service.– Optional JCR implementation: testing and migration.
• course-management – Allow administrative control over which Academic
Sessions are current or active.
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Sakai 2.6 Service Enhancements
• Email [Kernel]– Refactored email service.
• emailtemplateservice– Initial implementation of an email templating service.
• entitybroker – Added bug report emails.– Added REST support.
• JSF – Improved formatting and accessibility of ToolBar tag.
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Sakai 2.6 Service Enhancements
• Web Services – Added IP Address Filtering.– Added many new web services…
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Selected Contrib Projects• Assignments2• BlogWOW• Terracotta• Conditional Release• Elluminate• Feed Tool• Gradebook2• Leaderboard• Learning Log• News Feeds• OpenSyllabus• QNA
• Role Play• Sakai Admin X• SENRG• Sign-up• Simple Page Tool• Skin Manager• SMS• Solo• Textbook• Timeline• Wimba• Etc.
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• Builds on stability, robustness, and performance of Sakai 2.5.– Change from 2.5 to 2.6 is less than 2.4 to 2.5.– Lots of great, mostly minor enhancements.– Mostly similar UX to 2.5.
• Official Release late April/early May 2009.• Support with Maintenance Branch and
Maintenance Releases through early 2011.
Sakai 2.6 Summary
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Sakai Releases• Sakai 2.x Series
– 2.4• 2.4.x support ending soon…
– 2.5• 2.5.5 Maintenance Release coming late April/early May 2009• 2.5.x support through early 2010
– 2.6• 2.6.0 Official Release late April/early May 2009• 2.6.x support through early 2011
– 2.7 (Last 2.x Release)• Remains Kernel 1 based, no new UX (?)• 2.7.0 Official Release early 2010
• Sakai 3.x Series– 3.0
• Moving to Kernel 2 based; new UX• Early, partial functionality releases starting late 2009/early 2010?• 3.0.0 Official Release 2011/2012?
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Sakai 2.7?
• Who is it for?– Existing deployers interested in maintaining a 2.x
experience, with some enhancements, thru 2012.– Expected to be last release in 2.x series.– For new pilots, eventually will recommend starting
with Sakai 3.x, rather than 2.x (late 2009?)
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Sakai 2.7?
• Tentative Plans– Minor enhancements to tools and services already
underway• Forums• Profile• Tests & Quizzes• Assignments• Portfolio (OSP)• Other?
– Leveraging 3.0-targeted work on UX Improvement Project and Page Authoring?
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Sakai 3.x
• The future of Sakai…• Key organizations and committers are focusing
more and more on Sakai 3.x.• Early release (late 2009/early 2010?) – initially
focused sub-set of capabilities to meet early adopters’ needs:– University of Cambridge– Georgia Tech University
• Official 3.0 release for community (2011/2012?)
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Sakai 3.x
• Tentative Roadmap– Based on Kernel 2– UX Improvement project – Page Authoring– Content Management– Support for groups outside of site context– Simple URLs– Social networking capabilities– Support for legacy Sakai experience to ease transition– Migration from 2.x to 3.x– Improved ease-of-development
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Where to Learn More about 2.6.0?
• Overview– http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/WYC9Ag
• Release Documentation (coming soon…)– http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/LADWAg
• Beyond Sakai 2.6…– Sakai 3 General Information
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/DQLWAg
– Sakai Community Development Process• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/gQAg
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