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Integrating a videoconference system in a university portal

Gregory DENIS. Yves EPELBOIN. Agnès PRUVOST. Integrating a videoconference system in a university portal. Common Project EVO / UPMC. Goals. Integrate a distance learning system called EVO-Learning into universities environment.

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Integrating a videoconference system in a university portal

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  1. Gregory DENIS YvesEPELBOIN AgnèsPRUVOST Integrating a videoconference system in a university portal

  2. Common Project EVO / UPMC

  3. Goals Integrate a distance learning system called EVO-Learning into universities environment. Provide auser-friendly and intuitive web interface in the university portal to manage the virtual class rooms. Use the portal authentication system to identify the participant into EVO-Learning Forward the user information from the portal to the distance learning system.

  4. INTEGRATION • The Evo-Learning portletis compatible with ESUP Portal which is a derived version of U-Portal. • Authentication via Portal in CAS. • A Shibboleth version will come • User information retrieved via local LDAP

  5. Advantages • Avoid management of the user registration. • Manage, Controlof the lawful users • No additional Authentication required to join a virtual class. • The web interface module (portlet) will become open source soon

  6. University Portal

  7. Specific Features New EVO meeting type: Class Room 2 specific user types: Professor and student For each user type: • Different Abilities • Different Graphical User Interfaces

  8. Professor (1) from the Portal Create a class room reservation and attach some students to it Modify, Duplicate, Cancel a class room Add a moderator to the class room Protect a class room via a password Join any ongoing class room

  9. Professor (2) in the class room (virtual) Send / receive: audio / video Broadcast the desktop Send files to students Allow a student to speak via a dedicated “Raising Hand” widget Ban a student from the class room Extend the class room duration

  10. Student (1) from the Portal • Ongoing Class rooms (can be joined) • Public classes (with no list of attendees) • Classes in which he/she is attached to (previously by the professor) • Calendar • List of all the class rooms that he/she will be able to join per month • Calendar view (cells) of the class per month

  11. Student (2) In the class room (virtual) • Receive: audio / video • Receive professor desktop • Access to files • Interactive Chat • Can raise hand, when request is accepted: • Send audio, video, desktop to the class room • Send file to the professor

  12. Real Time Distance Learning

  13. Evo-Learning System to provide a real time distancelearning platform Real Time media : Text, Audio, Video, Desktop, Whiteboard, Files, Recordings. The system is based on the EVO technologies It is adapted to the constraints linked to learning scenarios : Professor / Students

  14. Digital Raising Hand

  15. Digital Raising Hand A simple interface to require to speak Students A simple widget to moderate a class Professor

  16. Request to Speak Widget for the Professor Students The student can cancel his/her request at any time via a click on the same button

  17. Allow / Deny Request Refuse Block any Raising Hand Accept A powerful widget to manage the requests Professor

  18. Infrastructure&Servers

  19. Architecture University’s Portal Portlet Interface ESUP Portal UPortal User EVO-Learning Server

  20. EVO-Learning Server Runs on A unique machine (linux) Components: • Database Server • EVO Media Router • EVO Internal Web Server • EVO Files Server

  21. EVO-Learning Interface Component that exchanges information between the Portlet and the EVO server Provides Java Interface to: • Manage reservations of class room • Join with automatic authentication • Manage attached studentsto class • Manage attached moderatorsto class

  22. A shared System Up to 5 universities can use a unique EVO-Learning server. Each university has to set the dedicated Portlet to access the service. 1 media router (or more) can be added to the infrastructure to handle more real time traffic

  23. EVO International A dedicated Portlethas been developed and put in place to accessthe international EVO service (http://evo.caltech.edu)

  24. Gregory DENIS YvesEPELBOIN AgnèsPRUVOST With a grant from the city of Paris to the universities Paris 2 and UPMC-Paris 6 through UNR Paris IdF TutoJRES 08

  25. Demonstration

  26. Extra Capturesof the Portal

  27. Browse the reservations

  28. Detailed View

  29. List of Virtual Classes

  30. Creation of Virtual Class …with a list of students and an extra moderator

  31. Creation of Recurrent Virtual Class …protected by password

  32. Ongoing classes A single click on the “Arrow – Target” button will start the application to join the selected virtual class.

  33. Student Version

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