Open Syllabus is now a fully functional Sakai 2.6 contrib tool that helps instructors quickly organize their course's material. In this presentation, we sketch its most important features including the seamless integration with resources, citations and assignments.

1. Open Syllabus in Sakai 2.6 : up and running Jacques Raynauld – faculty HEC Montréal June 15 2010

2. Objectives of the session Overview of a new syllabus authoringtool 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? 2 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

3. Outline HEC Montréal and the origins of the project Syllabi and Sakai Open Syllabus structure and architecture Quick demo of the tool Summary, roadmap and questions 3 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

4. HEC Montréal and the origin of the project 4

6. Part of the University of Montreal campus

7. 12 000 students

8. 250 career professors

9. 500 adjuncts

10. 4 000 full time undergraduate students

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12. 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 6 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

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17. One location Public and student access Common interface 95% of the course websites are up and running in Zone Cours 11 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

18. Origins of the project Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai) CRIMand the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases) 12 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

19. Origins of the project Presentation of the beta version at the Boston meetings HEC pilot in the 2010 Winter term. Large roll-out in the Fall. University of Montréal pilot in the Summer and Fall terms. 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

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22. Citations

23. Hyperlinks

24. Assignments

25. Quizzes

26. Discussion Boards

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28. Syllabi and Sakai 16 PDF - paper Actual Syllabus tool in Sakai Post a doc or PDF file Use an editor No semantic Contact information Objectives Requirements (evaluation) Grading Collegepolicies Schedule of readings, due date 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

30. Citations

31. Hyperlinks

32. Assignments

33. Discussion Boards

34. Etc.Stanford U. , Coursework User Guide 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

35. Syllabi and Sakai 18 Sakai Courseware Management - The Official Guide, p. 170.

36. Syllabi and Sakai 19 FacultyShowcase: Amanda Cecil, Using Oncourse CL to choreograph teachable moments in online courses, Indiana University, On Course

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39. Open Syllabus Architecture 22 Gerbé and Raynauld, An Open Syllabus Model, Ed-Media 2009, Honolulu. 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

40. Open Syllabus Architecture 23 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

41. Open Syllabus Architecture 24 Sakai Tools - Services Sakaï Server Open Syllabus Server Open Syllabus Client – Google Web Tool kit Exchange of XML files betweenOpen syllabus server and client Open Syllabus public gate HTML site createdfrom the XML file

42. Citation Z39.50 Connector: MetaSearch Engine (SirsiSingleSearch, Web2Bridge …) HTTP Or Z39.50 Etc. … Linking to Library Resources: Workarounds and Z39.50 Connectors in Sakai Mame Awa Diop Z39.50 Z35.50 Connector Z39.50 Library of Congress 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

43. Z39.50 Connector Allows access to computer databases accessible trough the Z39.50 client server-protocol such as library catalogue. Allows a faster integration of the citation helper tool Integrated Library System Z39.50 Repository OSID Implementation Z39.50 communications protocol OSID CALL OSID RETURN

44. Links to library resources Creates a link to the institution’s library catalogue. Allows students easier and faster access to library resources. SFX - OpenUrl Articles Library catalog Books and others

45. Quick demo of the toolhttp://vimeo.com/12495226 28

46. Demo Description of the editing page – buttons – tree panel (news, listof the lectures) and Sakai tools. View all. The structure and the wordingscanbetaylored to eachuniversityneeds. Adding a description in the Presentationsection Adding a contact Adding a textbookcitation to Course Material Adding a Forum to Course Material 29 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

47. Demo Seeingthe content of lecture 2 (objective, citation, file, url, exercice) Addinga lecture : The pricemechanism Addingthe objectives Adding an article – public – mandatory Addinga document – private – recommended Addinga quiz – rubric exercice – private – complementary Movinga quiz to lecture 1 30 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

48. Demo Discussing the evaluation section – very important for program design – the mostsemantic Editingan evaluation (evaluation type, addingelectronicsubmission,etc.) Addingan evaluationcriteria Addingan electronicsubmission (assignment) 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

49. Demo Adding a cluster Moving a lecture Addinganother cluster Preview Publish OsylManager (Briefly) 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

50. Summary, road map and questions 33

51. 10 good reasons for Open Syllabus Studentrequest : Whatshould I do? Whereisit? Facultyrequests : keepit simple (training)! Easy to modifythe templates and keepingtheirsemantic (lectures, themes, modules, etc.) Peak-load solution (GWT client) 34 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

52. 10 good reasons for Open Syllabus Archive/Share/Import/Export : Lectures/Modules withinyouruniversity Across the Sakai community Easy migration for us Public gate for the community, future students, parents, etc. Cuttingwork : PDF printing for students Reporting: assessmentmethods, accreditation, Bologna, etc. 35 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

53. 10 good reasons for structuredsyllabi Dynamiclinks to yourlibrarycatalog (Z39.50). Easy to launch a small pilot 36 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

54. Road-map and questions Availablenowfor Sakai 2.6 Migration to Sakai 2.7 coming Sakai 3.0 isnaturalstepsinceOpenSyllabus has REST architecture and couldbetransformed in a Open Social Gadget 37 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

55. Road-map and questions Tech DemoWednesday http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home Video: http://vimeo.com/12495226 Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca jacques.raynauld@hec.ca 38 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

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