Collaboration tools and services Marina Vermezović, AMRES Federated Identity Technology Workshop Sofia, Bulgaria, 19. Jun 2014.

2 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate A word about popular SPs in production federations We have already learned that there is NO SINGLE KILLER SP Recently started the initiative to gather the list of most popular SPs in production federations Work still in progress – so far received 8 answers Some statistics/reports are publicly available: Swedish federation – SWAMID- Australian federation – AAF - content/uploads/2009/09/AAF-2013-Web.pdfhttps://aaf.edu.au/wp- content/uploads/2009/09/AAF-2013-Web.pdf

3 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate A word about popular SPs in production federations Statistics are made a bit differently based on the architecure of federation Central and hub-and-spoke federation catch all logins Full mesh – either are gathering central statistics, or are collecting the statistics from the central discovery service Far most usage have the local institution services such as local portals, virtual learning environments, intranets Besides that, the sceen is colorfull Elearning portals Collaboration tools Journals and books publishers, library portals Various services such as timetables, software licences, sports

4 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning eLearning in broad sence is using ICT techhnoligies in education Learning Management System - LMS is software for organizing eLearning education and courses One of the most popular SPs in federations Usualy universites deploy an elearning platform for the whole university

5 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning Some of the features of LMS platforms: Organize courses Add and manage content and learning materials Organize tests and quizes Delegate assignements Collaborative tools such as forums, wikis and chat Track of student progress Feedback, survey Open source LMS platforms used in federations: Moodle – far most the most popular !

6 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle – list of courses

7 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle, home page

8 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle - forum

9 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle – tests

10 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle - grade

11 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Filesender Open source tool for sharing large files Developed in the NREN community: AARNet (Australia), HEAnet (Ireland), SURFnet (The Netherlands) and UNINETT (Norway) Authenticated user sends the file by upolading it to the filesender. Recipient gets with URL on filesender where to collect the file. Maximum size of the file and timelimit for availability of the file are configurable by the filesender system administrator Not used as reliable filestorage!

12 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Filesender – sending file

13 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender – my files

14 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender - vaucher

15 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender - administration

16 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Web conference - BigBlueButton Web conference tools enable users to participate in video conferences from their laptop, requering only broswer, camera and headset Very convinient for organizig meetings, webinars, lectures BigBlueButton opensource web conference toolhttp://bigbluebutton.org/ Features: Multiple participants Chat Presentation sharing Screen sharing Whiteboard Record and playback Multiple layouts – meeting, videochat, lecture, webinar

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18 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Web conference – BigBlueButton + Mconf Mconf is an open source multiconference system that you can use for free (at mconf.org).mconf.org It is developed in the research group PRAV at UFRGS (Brazil), and funded by Brazilian NREN RNPPRAVUFRGSRNP It is composed of four main entities: web portal that provides access to web conferences, shared documents, spaces and more; a load balancer that allows the system to scale to thousands of users; a web conference system powered by BigBlueButton ™ a mobile web conference client.

19 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Web conference – BigBlueButton + Mconf

20 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in federation Web conference – BigBlueButton + Mconf

21 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades okeanos global is developed and provided by Greek NREN GRNET okeanos global provides easy creation of Virtual Machines from web browser – up to 2 VMs, available for 6 months Different Operating Systems - Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora and FreeBSD. Up to 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM and 80GB of system disk for each user. All VMs connected to the public Internet upon boot. Create an isolated private network and connect VMs to them. Custom Images - create, upload, register and then spawn VMs from custom Images

22 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades Pithos+ is the Virtual Storage service of ~okeanos global Enables user to store files online, share them with friends and access them anytime through web, client or virtual machines: 50 GBs of online storage share files and content with other Pithos+ users or friends Simple and intuitive Web UI to upload and organize files Pithos+ clients to sync local folders with Pithos+ Windows, ipad, macos, iphone client applications

23 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

24 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

25 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

26 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

27 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

28 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Cyclades

29 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Okeanos - Pithos

30 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN Geant Intranet Intranet for all participants of GEANT project and NREN staff: fosters collaboration document sharing and management information about Tasks and Activities, roadmaps, milestones Community section fosters discussions PLM - Product Management Portal All NREN GEANT participants and NREN staff have acces via their IdP NREN staff which are not participants have only read permisiona and write permision in Community section GEANT participants whic are not from NREN also can acess via their IdP, thus enabling all other users of that IdP to have read rights

31 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect Adobe® Connect™ is a web-based collaboration tool for participating in and hosting virtual meetings. Sweden NREN conctracted the Adobe Connect for whole NREN eduGAIN users can autheticate and participate at meetings. Can get higher priviledges in specific rooms.

32 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect

33 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect – SUNET users

34 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect - SUNET users

35 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect - SUNET users

36 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in eduGAIN SUNET Adobe Connect - SUNET users

37 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Collaboration tools in GEANT Cloud services SA7 activity Cloud services supported by SA7 activity: Collaboration suites File storage and synchronization services Realtime communication, webconferencing services ​​​ Infrastructure as a Service The SA7 Task 3 team created a document MS97 (MS7.3.1), describing the essential requirements for cloud service providersMS97 (MS7.3.1) Intellectual Property Rights and Ownership Legal Aspects Security Continuity Confidentiality Communication Billing Technical Requirements

38 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate | | Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Thank you!