1. Infrastructure Support for Teaching and Learning Applications at Brown University
John Spadaro
Sept. 24, 2008

2. Instructional Applications
WebCT
Course Web Pages
Course Bulk
ITunes
Wiki (Confluence)

3. Problem: Course Roles
Faculty frustration with lack of access for edge cases.
Registrar’s list doesn’t match faculty needs.
Vagabonds
TA’s
Departmental technical staff
Departmental administrative staff
Faculty colleagues

4. MACE Grouper: Course Group Schema
Course : [ Subject ] : [ Number ] : [ Term ] : [ Section ]
All
Administrator
Instructor (Provisioned)
TeachingAssistant
Manager
Contributor
ContentDeveloper
Mentor
Learner
Student (Provisioned)
Auditor
Vagabond
[ brackets ] indicate dynamic data Bold indicates eduCourse/IMS compatible role
Schema is flattened to provision LDAP
12 groups per course provision hasMember attribute in Groups ou
Person objects get isMemberOf pointers to groups
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5. Application Role Mapping
Documented how Grouper groups map to application roles
Application integration characteristics allow some flexibility
Mapping highly dependent on user feedback
MACE Grouper Course Groups
iTunes
Majordomo
Confluence
WebCT
All
Recipient list, Discussion Sender
Can Use
Administrator
Instructor
Broadcast Sender
Space Admin
Instructors (provisioned)
Managers
TAs
TA and Designer
Contributor
Content Developers
Designer
Mentors
Learner
Student
Auditors
Auditor
Students (provisioned, read only)
Vagabonds
Other, outside MACE Grouper
Super Admin
Super Admin(s)

6. Problem: Enabling Faculty
Faculty unaware of array of instructional applications available
Faculty demands for last minute setup.
Faculty shouldn’t need to understand underlying infrastructure

7. Faculty Gateway: Landing Page

8. Faculty Gateway: Course Page

9. Request Page - MyCourses