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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.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

UNC Chapel Hill Onboards Freshman Language Learners With Sakai

Foreign language placement exams were becoming a costly and cumbersome-to-manage burden for UNC-Chapel Hill - so they turned to Sakai. Sakai's flexibility and freedom from licensing costs provided a one-stop way to onboard incoming freshmen and transfer students, and dramatically reduce cost and effort.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Sakai

University of Notre Dame Captures Learner Analytics Data with Apereo Open LRW

When the University of Notre Dame looked to capture learning analytics data from multiple sources, they turned to Apereo Open Learning Record Warehouse. Open LRW is a secure, standalone, standards based repository to store learning experience data from a range of applications. Looking for an independent analytics data storage solution? Look no further ...

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai

When the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland wanted to improve test and question re-use, they turned to Sakai and Apereo Commercial Partner Unicon. The goal was to make cataloging, searching, and re-using questions and question banks easier for instructors. Working in partnership, USU and Unicon developed new question tagging and search capabilities and shared them back to the Sakai community. 

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Sakai

The Juilliard School and CAS: Deployment Choices

After choosing CAS, the Juilliard School enlisted Unicon to assist with integrating CAS, Shibboleth, and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) with Microsoft Office 365, an application hosted in the cloud. Unicon also configured, installed, and branded CAS and assisted Juilliard with local single sign-on integrations that linked together Juilliard’s instances of Web Advisor, Drupal, and Atomic Learning.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

Opencast and SWITCH

When the Swiss National Research and Education Network SWITCH were looking for a robust and open video management platform, they chose Opencast. SWITCH offer services to a range of education and research customers with high expectations of service quality. SWITCH decided to improve the already robust Opencast software with a community initiative. Quality Booster brought together nine institutions in the Opencast community to book almost 500 hours of additional quality assurance to the Opencast release process. The entire community of Opencast adopters gained from the SWITCH initiative.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about Opencast

uPortal and the University of Wisconsin-Madison

When the University of Wisconsin-Madison sourced a new portal framework, they chose uPortal. uPortal gave UW-Madison control over their upgrade schedule, and the capability to adapt and innovate to meet diverse local needs. Ten years on, and UW-Madison's innovations include virtual portal hosting, ERP integration, and a refreshed and modern user experience - all shared back to the uPortal community and growing sustainability.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about uPortal

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.

More about Apereo | More about Tsugi

Our Core Mission

The core mission of Apereo is to assist and facilitate educational organizations which “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research."

More About Apereo

Xerte – Content Creation for All

The Xerte community builds free content creation tools for all author skill levels. The software is designed around a core belief that simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible. When you deploy Xerte, you can engage all the content creators you need to. Compelling new approaches to teaching and learning - free software to support them.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte 

St. Petersburg College and Student Success Plan

Like all educational institutions, St. Petersburg College in Florida has the goal of enhancing student retention, increasing student success, and improving students’ ability to graduate on time.

To support these goals, SPC needed technology that would help them record information about students and to tracking, identifying and resolving problems quickly – preferably before they were encountered. After reviewing their options, SPC adopted Apereo Student Success Plan (SSP).

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to License. Free to adapt. Free to Innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Student Success Plan

The Juilliard School: Identity and Access Management with CAS

When the Juilliard School needed to securely connect its constituents to both local and cloud applications, it decided on open source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions as the answer. With open source IAM solutions, programmers can review and validate the code, and users can collaborate and know that the information they are sharing will be delivered correctly and securely, to the appropriate group(s). Based on this conclusion, the Juilliard School chose to adopt Apereo Central Authentication Service (CAS) as its IAM solution.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to License. Free to adapt. Free to Innovate.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

Xerte at the University of Nottingham

Xerte makes it easy to create rich, interactive learning content as part of a team. At the University of Nottingham learning technologists, media specialists, software developers and teachers use Xerte's collaborative workflow to create pedagogically sound, rich interactive learning content - playable anywhere.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

 

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.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

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.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

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.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

UniTime: Open Source, Open Algorithms, Open Innovation

Many universities contribute to UniTime, producing their own features and adaptations that are played back into the software for the general good. All UniTime code is available in GitHub, and UniTime's algorithms have been widely published in research papers and conference proceedings. Open source. Open algorithms. Open Innovation.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

A National Learning Analytics Service from the Jisc

When Jisc were sourcing software for a national learning analytics service, they turned to the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative for key components. Apereo takes a component-based platform approach to learning analytics - capable of operating at national scale.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime

UniTime is a comprehensive scheduling/timetabling solution made by higher education, for higher education. UniTime is freely available under an open source license. Your institution can deploy with community-based support, or with for-fee professional services. Your institutional choice, to suit your institutional circumstances.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

Xerte and Accessibility

Accessibility is a key strength of Xerte. From the outset, the Xerte community has worked with accessibility specialists to collaboratively create inclusive and accessible tools and content. Authoring content for all our learners.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

 

 

uPortal at the California Community College System 

Like most colleges, the California Community Colleges (CCC) wanted to implement a portal for their students that would simplify access to important information and services. It would be designed to increase student understanding of the importance of education planning, activities, and campus-based resources that can help keep them stay on track to complete their educational and career goals.  CCC chose to develop their “MyPath” Student Portal using Apereo uPortal, a scalable solution that supports multi-tenancy, responsive design, and integration with an identity provider. Apereo community software updates and existing services helps CCC reduce costs and save funding - funding that can then go towards innovation and support of students.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about uPortal

  • Columbia University Single Sign On: From Home-grown to Community
  • UNC Chapel Hill Onboards Freshman Language Learners With Sakai
  • University of Notre Dame Captures Learner Analytics Data with Apereo Open LRW
  • Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai
  • The Juilliard School and CAS: Deployment Choices
  • Opencast and SWITCH
  • uPortal and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Dayton Extends LMS with Tsugi
  • Apereo Mission
  • Xerte – Content Creation for All
  • St. Petersburg College and Student Success Plan
  • The Juilliard School: Identity and Access Management with CAS
  • Xerte at the University of Nottingham
  • UniTime and Masaryk University
  • Xerte at the University of Cape Town
  • UniTime and the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University
  • UniTime: Open Source, Open Algorithms, Open Innovation
  • A National Learning Analytics Service from the Jisc
  • Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime
  • Xerte and Accessibility
  • uPortal at the California Community College System

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.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

UNC Chapel Hill Onboards Freshman Language Learners With Sakai

Foreign language placement exams were becoming a costly and cumbersome-to-manage burden for UNC-Chapel Hill - so they turned to Sakai. Sakai's flexibility and freedom from licensing costs provided a one-stop way to onboard incoming freshmen and transfer students, and dramatically reduce cost and effort.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Sakai

University of Notre Dame Captures Learner Analytics Data with Apereo Open LRW

When the University of Notre Dame looked to capture learning analytics data from multiple sources, they turned to Apereo Open Learning Record Warehouse. Open LRW is a secure, standalone, standards based repository to store learning experience data from a range of applications. Looking for an independent analytics data storage solution? Look no further ...

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai

When the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland wanted to improve test and question re-use, they turned to Sakai and Apereo Commercial Partner Unicon. The goal was to make cataloging, searching, and re-using questions and question banks easier for instructors. Working in partnership, USU and Unicon developed new question tagging and search capabilities and shared them back to the Sakai community. 

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Sakai

The Juilliard School and CAS: Deployment Choices

After choosing CAS, the Juilliard School enlisted Unicon to assist with integrating CAS, Shibboleth, and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) with Microsoft Office 365, an application hosted in the cloud. Unicon also configured, installed, and branded CAS and assisted Juilliard with local single sign-on integrations that linked together Juilliard’s instances of Web Advisor, Drupal, and Atomic Learning.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

Opencast and SWITCH

When the Swiss National Research and Education Network SWITCH were looking for a robust and open video management platform, they chose Opencast. SWITCH offer services to a range of education and research customers with high expectations of service quality. SWITCH decided to improve the already robust Opencast software with a community initiative. Quality Booster brought together nine institutions in the Opencast community to book almost 500 hours of additional quality assurance to the Opencast release process. The entire community of Opencast adopters gained from the SWITCH initiative.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about Opencast

uPortal and the University of Wisconsin-Madison

When the University of Wisconsin-Madison sourced a new portal framework, they chose uPortal. uPortal gave UW-Madison control over their upgrade schedule, and the capability to adapt and innovate to meet diverse local needs. Ten years on, and UW-Madison's innovations include virtual portal hosting, ERP integration, and a refreshed and modern user experience - all shared back to the uPortal community and growing sustainability.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about uPortal

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.

More about Apereo | More about Tsugi

Our Core Mission

The core mission of Apereo is to assist and facilitate educational organizations which “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research."

More About Apereo

Xerte – Content Creation for All

The Xerte community builds free content creation tools for all author skill levels. The software is designed around a core belief that simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible. When you deploy Xerte, you can engage all the content creators you need to. Compelling new approaches to teaching and learning - free software to support them.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte 

St. Petersburg College and Student Success Plan

Like all educational institutions, St. Petersburg College in Florida has the goal of enhancing student retention, increasing student success, and improving students’ ability to graduate on time.

To support these goals, SPC needed technology that would help them record information about students and to tracking, identifying and resolving problems quickly – preferably before they were encountered. After reviewing their options, SPC adopted Apereo Student Success Plan (SSP).

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to License. Free to adapt. Free to Innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Student Success Plan

The Juilliard School: Identity and Access Management with CAS

When the Juilliard School needed to securely connect its constituents to both local and cloud applications, it decided on open source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions as the answer. With open source IAM solutions, programmers can review and validate the code, and users can collaborate and know that the information they are sharing will be delivered correctly and securely, to the appropriate group(s). Based on this conclusion, the Juilliard School chose to adopt Apereo Central Authentication Service (CAS) as its IAM solution.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to License. Free to adapt. Free to Innovate.

More about Apereo | More about CAS

Xerte at the University of Nottingham

Xerte makes it easy to create rich, interactive learning content as part of a team. At the University of Nottingham learning technologists, media specialists, software developers and teachers use Xerte's collaborative workflow to create pedagogically sound, rich interactive learning content - playable anywhere.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

 

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.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

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.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

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.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

UniTime: Open Source, Open Algorithms, Open Innovation

Many universities contribute to UniTime, producing their own features and adaptations that are played back into the software for the general good. All UniTime code is available in GitHub, and UniTime's algorithms have been widely published in research papers and conference proceedings. Open source. Open algorithms. Open Innovation.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

A National Learning Analytics Service from the Jisc

When Jisc were sourcing software for a national learning analytics service, they turned to the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative for key components. Apereo takes a component-based platform approach to learning analytics - capable of operating at national scale.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime

UniTime is a comprehensive scheduling/timetabling solution made by higher education, for higher education. UniTime is freely available under an open source license. Your institution can deploy with community-based support, or with for-fee professional services. Your institutional choice, to suit your institutional circumstances.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

Xerte and Accessibility

Accessibility is a key strength of Xerte. From the outset, the Xerte community has worked with accessibility specialists to collaboratively create inclusive and accessible tools and content. Authoring content for all our learners.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

 

 

uPortal at the California Community College System 

Like most colleges, the California Community Colleges (CCC) wanted to implement a portal for their students that would simplify access to important information and services. It would be designed to increase student understanding of the importance of education planning, activities, and campus-based resources that can help keep them stay on track to complete their educational and career goals.  CCC chose to develop their “MyPath” Student Portal using Apereo uPortal, a scalable solution that supports multi-tenancy, responsive design, and integration with an identity provider. Apereo community software updates and existing services helps CCC reduce costs and save funding - funding that can then go towards innovation and support of students.

Apereo. It's about community.

Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.

More about Apereo | More about uPortal

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Opencast Community Summit 2018: Call for Participation

December 11, 2017

The annual Opencast conference will be hosted from February 14 to February 16, 2018 at the University of Vienna. The meeting will allow participants from the Opencast community to present their current activities related to Opencast and academic video management in general.

2018 Apereo Webinar - Learning What Works When Scaling Analytics Infrastructure

January 5, 2018

Wednesday 24th January at 1200 US Eastern / 1700 GMT

This webinar provides insights into the open source frameworks, analytics technology, and strategy required to deploy analytics infrastructure with efficient IT delivery.

2018 Open Apereo Call for Proposals Now Open

December 13, 2017

DEADLINE: JANUARY 26, 2018

 

2018 ESUP Days/Apereo Paris

December 11, 2017

The ESUP-Portail Consortium and the Apereo Foundation are pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of the ESUP-Days/Apereo Paris event.   This joint conference will take place at the Université Paris Descartes (Paris, FRANCE) on February 6, 2018.

Save the Date: Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards (ATLAS) 2018

December 11, 2017

This year, the award applicant selection process opens on January 16, 2018 and closes on February 26, 2018.

Sakai Virtual Conference In Review

December 11, 2017
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