Integrating LONCAPA with Institutional Data

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Stuart Raeburn
• Michigan State University

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Information about courses
• Information about users
• Automating processes
• Tools for Course Coordinators
• Tools for Domain Coordinators
• Tools for Support Staff

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Integrating LON-CAPA with institutional data

• Information about courses
• Title, semester, sections, cross-listings
• Instructional staff
• Faculty, TAs
• Student Enrollment

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Information about users
• Username
• StudentID
• Full Name
• E-mail address

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Processes to automate

• Enrollment for Registered Students
• Automatic adds
• Automatic drops

• Update User information
• Username changes
• Name changes
• E-mail address changes

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Mapping LON-CAPA courses to institutional scheme
Institutional data Course codes Section
codes Instructor of record
LON-CAPA course Course ID Section/group
ID Course Coordinator
lt--------gt lt--------gt lt--------gt
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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Auto-enroll Mechanism on library server
• Fetches current class lists for each LON-CAPA
  course employing auto-enrollment
• Performs the following tasks
• Checks for username changes (based on assumed
  invariant studentID)
• Checks for authentication method changes
• Updates student name, e-mail etc.
• Adds, drops or switches sections as appropriate

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Customization in localenroll.pm

• Fetch_enrollment ()
• Creates temporary files of structured enrollment
  data (XML)
• get_sections ()
• Retrieve a list of official sections for a class
• new_course ()
• Validates that course owner is authorized for
  course section
• validate_courseID ()
• Validates existence of course section or
  crosslisting
• create_password ()
• Creates password for new users local
  authentication

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data
ltstudent username"smith"gt ltautharggtMSU.EDUlt/aut
harggt ltauthtypegtkrb4lt/authtypegt
ltemailgtsmith_at_msu.edult/emailgt ltenddategtlt/enddategt
ltfirstnamegtJohnlt/firstnamegt
ltgenerationgtIIlt/generationgt ltgroupIDgtfs03nop5900
01lt/groupIDgt ltlastnamegtSmithlt/lastnamegt
ltmiddlenamegtDlt/middlenamegt ltstartdategtlt/startdat
egt ltstudentIDgtA12345678lt/studentIDgt lt/studentgt
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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Course Creation (Domain Coordinator)
• Course Modification (Domain Coordinator)
• Online requests for creation of courses
• Management of course requests
• Course Information

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Create Course Specify the following
• Course Code
• Sections, Crosslistings
• Enable auto-adds and/or autodrops
• Default authentication for new users
• Start date for auto-enrollment
• End date for auto-enrollment
• Single course coordinator Course owner

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Modify following course settings
• Default Authentication for new users
• Course Code
• Course Owner (choose from Active Course
  Coordinators

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Course Coordinators can change
• Enable/disable adds and/or drops
• Change first and last auto-enrollment dates
• Activate notification, and modify recipients
• Add/remove sections
• Add/remove crosslistings
• Change section/groupID mappings
• Reconcile course roster with institutional data

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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Online course request form
• Access requires authentication and authorization
• Incorporates valid courses and sections by
  semester
• Configure sections as standalone or merged
• Specify imported material
• Cloned LON-CAPA course
• Imported IMS package (CourseInfo 4/Blackboard 5)

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Online course requests
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Online course requests
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Online course requests
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Online course requests
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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Management of course requests
• Requesting instructor can view/modify or cancel
• Domain Coordinator can view/modify or cancel, or
  add new requests on behalf of instructors
• Aim is to automate creation for validated course
  owners.

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Course Creation Request Summary
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Course Creation Request Status
Online course request status
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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Information about courses for support team
• View course status by department code
• View user status search by username
• LON-CAPA account in domain?
• Enrolled in LON-CAPA class?
• Registered for class? - institutional data

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Information about course status and student
enrollment status
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Integrating LON-CAPA with Institutional Data

• Summary
• Hooks available in LON-CAPA for implementation of
  auto-enrollment.
• User interfaces available for Domain Coordinators
  and Course Coordinators to control
  auto-enrollment.
• Institutions need to add to stubs of functions in
  localenroll.pm to create XML files of student
  data.
• Tools developed to support online courrse
  requests and manage support.