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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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