Columbia University Single Sign On: From Home-grown to Community
For almost ten years, Columbia University had been running a home-grown web single sign-on (webSSO) system called WIND, and integrating it with a variety of on-campus applications. When Columbia decided to adopt Google Apps they considered the effort required to extend WIND again, and decided it was time to consider a more standards-based approach. Columbia was attracted by the promise of less development, and faster deployment. They chose the Apereo Foundation Central Authentication Service (CAS), an open source WebSSO application that provides authentication for local and cloud-based applications.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
More about Apereo | More about CAS
Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai
When the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland wanted to improve test and question re-use, they turned to Sakai and Apereo Commercial Partner Unicon. The goal was to make cataloging, searching, and re-using questions and question banks easier for instructors. Working in partnership, USU and Unicon developed new question tagging and search capabilities and shared them back to the Sakai community.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
More about Apereo | More about Sakai
Xerte – Content Creation for All
The Xerte community builds free content creation tools for all author skill levels. The software is designed around a core belief that simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible. When you deploy Xerte, you can engage all the content creators you need to. Compelling new approaches to teaching and learning - free software to support them.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
More about Apereo | More about Xerte
Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime
UniTime is a comprehensive scheduling/timetabling solution made by higher education, for higher education. UniTime is freely available under an open source license. Your institution can deploy with community-based support, or with for-fee professional services. Your institutional choice, to suit your institutional circumstances.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
More about Apereo | More about UniTime
UNC Chapel Hill Onboards Freshman Language Learners With Sakai
Foreign language placement exams were becoming a costly and cumbersome-to-manage burden for UNC-Chapel Hill - so they turned to Sakai. Sakai's flexibility and freedom from licensing costs provided a one-stop way to onboard incoming freshmen and transfer students, and dramatically reduce cost and effort.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
More about Apereo | More about Sakai