Columbia University Single Sign On: From Home-grown to Community
For almost ten years, Columbia University had been running a home-grown web single sign-on (webSSO) system called WIND, and integrating it with a variety of on-campus applications. When Columbia decided to adopt Google Apps they considered the effort required to extend WIND again, and decided it was time to consider a more standards-based approach. Columbia was attracted by the promise of less development, and faster deployment. They chose the Apereo Foundation Central Authentication Service (CAS), an open source WebSSO application that provides authentication for local and cloud-based applications.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
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Xerte at the University of Cape Town
When the University of Cape Town Library needed a tool to create content for their MOOC, they chose Xerte. Xerte's "author once, run anywhere" paradigm allowed them to author content independent of their MOOC - and retain and curate it independently.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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University of Dayton Extends LMS with Tsugi
In response to faculty demand, the University of Dayton was looking for a way to quickly develop and integrate niche tools to extend Sakai functionality. It turned to Tsugi. With the help of Tsugi, Dayton designs and develops tailor-made tools to the exact specifications of faculty members in a fraction of the time it took previously. Tsugi tools created so far have given faculty the ability use in-video quizzing, group feedback rubrics, photo sharing and commenting, and course learning journals. Tsugi has led to increased levels of faculty engagement and innovation at Dayton.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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UniTime and Masaryk University
When Masaryk University wanted to improve instructor schedule quality, they turned to UniTime, the comprehensive open source scheduling solution. UniTime's constraint-based solver allowed them to control hours per day, breaks, gaps in schedule, classes taught in a row, and more. UniTime - controlling schedules, controlling costs.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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UniTime and the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University
When the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University was faced with building renovation, the old manual timetabling process was no longer sufficient. "This class has always been in this room on Monday morning" and "this professor likes this room" just wasn't going to cut it. They adopted and adapted UniTime, and schedules were published eight weeks after adoption.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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