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.
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UniTime and Masaryk University
When Masaryk University wanted to improve instructor schedule quality, they turned to UniTime, the comprehensive open source scheduling solution. UniTime's constraint-based solver allowed them to control hours per day, breaks, gaps in schedule, classes taught in a row, and more. UniTime - controlling schedules, controlling costs.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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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.
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Opencast and SWITCH
When the Swiss National Research and Education Network SWITCH were looking for a robust and open video management platform, they chose Opencast. SWITCH offer services to a range of education and research customers with high expectations of service quality. SWITCH decided to improve the already robust Opencast software with a community initiative. Quality Booster brought together nine institutions in the Opencast community to book almost 500 hours of additional quality assurance to the Opencast release process. The entire community of Opencast adopters gained from the SWITCH initiative.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
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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.
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