1 / 25

DOULS

DOULS. Jason Platts CETIS Widget Bash 23 rd March 2011. Project update March 2011. Completion of first phase of the project - ‘Visioning’ Now in the first development phase 2 Key areas for development: Connecting the VLE to Google Apps Creating Gadgets. VLE & Google Apps. Google Apps.

garren
Download Presentation

DOULS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. DOULS Jason Platts CETIS Widget Bash 23rd March 2011

  2. Project update March 2011 • Completion of first phase of the project - ‘Visioning’ • Now in the first development phase • 2 Key areas for development: • Connecting the VLE to Google Apps • Creating Gadgets

  3. VLE & Google Apps Google Apps • Over 10,000 students • Single-sign-on • Personal usage e.g. email provision • Due to enter pilot for teaching usage: • Issues with accessibility • Issues adding staff/tutors on to system

  4. VLE & Google Apps Export VLE data to Google Calendar • Creates web calendar feed in Google calendar • Link from main module website homepage • Extra guidance • Support for other data - tasks

  5. VLE & Google Apps VLE Portfolio activity • Enables ‘scaffolding’ of portfolio • Enables ‘template’ documents to be added to portfolio • Moodle ‘module’ with extendable architecture • Save Portfolio content in Google Docs – also supports other formats

  6. VLE & Google Apps VLE Portfolio activity • Scaffold layout can be reused across activities • Templates can be re-visited across a number of activities: - User responses are saved - Selective pages can be shown - Builds to produce final document • Flexible – meets wide range of ePortfolio usage

  7. VLE & Google Apps VLE Google Collaborative activity • Facilitates sharing of documents with students • Others can see a rendition of the document • Supports group collaboration • Issues: • Needs to share to Google groups (maintained centrally), difficult to match Moodle groups to these

  8. Gadgets Overview of gadget developments • Plugin to enable secure connection of gadget to Moodle Web services • JavaScript library to aid connection to plugin • Google gadgets to be deployed to iGoogle • Moodle code to support each gadget – creating web services

  9. Gadgets Moodle Gadget pluginSNAPP (SocialNetworkApplicationPlugin) • Plugin providing number of services: • ‘Serve’ gadget XML from Moodle • ‘Match’ gadget user to Moodle user • Provide secure connection to Moodle web services from gadgets • Manage OAuth certificates/keys

  10. iGoogle Gadget containing text from Moodle JSON web service Inserted by Moodle Request sent to Moodle Moodle validates and checks user has authenticated Result from Moodle web service call

  11. Gadgets Signed requestfrom gadget Check container enabled Moodle validates OAuth Certificate Add user id Call web service Return result

  12. Gadgets Gadget list • Generated after a number of brainstorming sessions • Gadgets will be promoted to students for use in iGoogle as part of personalisation of the VLE

  13. Gadgets Gadget list • Study Planner (Sep)* • Collaborative tools alert (Sep)* • Module suggestion (Sep/Dec) • Assignment buddy (Dec) • Study buddy (Dec/Mar)* • * Dependant on other developments

  14. Gadgets Paper prototype

  15. www.open.ac.uk/blogs/douls

More Related