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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Integrating a videoconference
system in a university portal
Gregory DENIS Yves EPELBOINAgnès PRUVOST
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Common Project EVO / UPMC
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Goals
• Integrate a distance learning system called EVO-Learning into universities environment.
• Provide a user-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.
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INTEGRATION
• The Evo-Learning portlet is 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
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Advantages
• Avoid management of the user registration.
• Manage, Control of the lawful users
• No additional Authentication required to join a virtual class.
• The web interface module (portlet) will become open source soon
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University Portal
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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
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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
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Professor (2)
• 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
in the class room (virtual)
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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
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Student (2)
• 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
In the class room (virtual)
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Real Time Distance Learning
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Evo-Learning
• System to provide a real time distance learning 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
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Digital Raising Hand
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Digital Raising Hand
Students
Professor
A simple interface to require to speak
A simple widget to moderate a class
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Request to Speak
Students
Widget for the Professor
The student can cancel his/her request at any time via a click on the same button
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Allow / Deny Request
Professor
Refuse
AcceptBlock any Raising Hand
A powerful widget to manage the requests
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Infrastructure&
Servers
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Architecture
Portlet Interface
University’sPortal
User
ESUP PortalUPortal
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EVO-Learning Server
Runs on A unique machine (linux)Components:
–Database Server–EVO Media Router–EVO Internal Web Server–EVO Files Server
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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 students to class
–Manage attached moderators to class
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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
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EVO InternationalA dedicated Portlet has been developed and put in place to access the international EVO service (http://evo.caltech.edu)
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Gregory DENIS Yves EPELBOINAgnès PRUVOST
With a grant from the city of Paris to the universities Paris 2 and UPMC-Paris 6 through UNR Paris IdF
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Demonstration
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Extra Capturesof the Portal
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Browse the reservations
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Detailed View
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List of Virtual Classes
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Creation of Virtual Class
…with a list of students and an extra moderator
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Creation of Recurrent Virtual Class
…protected by password
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Ongoing classes
A single click on the “Arrow – Target” button will start the application to join the selected virtual class.
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Student Version