Collaboration tools and services Marina Vermezović, AMRES Federated Identity Technology Workshop Sofia, Bulgaria, 19. Jun 2014

Collaboration tools and services

Marina Vermezović, AMRES

Federated Identity Technology Workshop

Sofia, Bulgaria, 19. Jun 2014.

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A word about popular SPs in production federations

We have already learned that there is NO SINGLE KILLER SP

Recently started the initiative to gather the list of most popular SPs in production federations

Work still in progress – so far received 8 answers

Some statistics/reports are publicly available:

Swedish federation – SWAMID- https://flog.sunet.se

Australian federation – AAF - https://aaf.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/AAF-2013-Web.pdf

https://flog.sunet.se/

https://aaf.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/AAF-2013-Web.pdf

https://aaf.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/AAF-2013-Web.pdf


A word about popular SPs in production federations

Statistics are made a bit differently based on the architecure of federation

Central and hub-and-spoke federation catch all logins

Full mesh – either are gathering central statistics, or are collecting the statistics from the central discovery service

Far most usage have the local institution services such as local portals, virtual learning environments, intranets

Besides that, the sceen is colorfull

Elearning portals

Collaboration tools

Journals and books publishers, library portals

Various services such as timetables, software licences, sports


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning

eLearning in broad sence is using ICT techhnoligies in education

Learning Management System - LMS is software for organizing eLearning education and courses

One of the most popular SPs in federations

Usualy universites deploy an elearning platform for the whole university


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning

Some of the features of LMS platforms:

Organize courses

Add and manage content and learning materials

Organize tests and quizes

Delegate assignements

Collaborative tools such as forums, wikis and chat

Track of student progress

Feedback, survey

Open source LMS platforms used in federations:

Moodle – far most the most popular !


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle – list of courses


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle, home page


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle - forum


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle – tests


Collaboration tools in federation eLearning – Moodle - grade


Collaboration tools in federation Filesender

Open source tool for sharing large files

Developed in the NREN community: AARNet (Australia), HEAnet (Ireland), SURFnet (The Netherlands) and UNINETT (Norway)

Authenticated user sends the file by upolading it to the filesender. Recipient gets email with URL on filesender where to collect the file.

Maximum size of the file and timelimit for availability of the file are configurable by the filesender system administrator

Not used as reliable filestorage!


Collaboration tools in federation Filesender – sending file


Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender – my files


Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender - vaucher


Collaboration tools in federation – Filesender - administration


Collaboration tools in federationWeb conference - BigBlueButton

Web conference tools enable users to participate in video conferences from their laptop, requering only broswer, camera and headset

Very convinient for organizig meetings, webinars, lectures

BigBlueButton http://bigbluebutton.org/, opensource web conference tool

Features:

Multiple participants

Chat

Presentation sharing

Screen sharing

Whiteboard

Record and playback

Multiple layouts – meeting, videochat, lecture, webinar

http://bigbluebutton.org/





Collaboration tools in federationWeb conference – BigBlueButton + Mconf

Mconf is an open source multiconference system that you can use for free (at mconf.org).

It is developed in the research group PRAV at UFRGS (Brazil), and funded by Brazilian NREN RNP

It is composed of four main entities:

web portal that provides access to web conferences, shared documents, spaces and more;

a load balancer that allows the system to scale to thousands of users;

a web conference system powered by BigBlueButton ™

a mobile web conference client.

http://mconf.org/

http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/prav

http://www.ufrgs.br/

http://www.rnp.br/






Collaboration tools in eduGAINOkeanos - Cyclades

https://okeanos-global.grnet.gr/home/

okeanos global is developed and provided by Greek NREN GRNET

okeanos global provides easy creation of Virtual Machines from web browser – up to 2 VMs, available for 6 months

Different Operating Systems - Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora and FreeBSD.

Up to 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM and 80GB of system disk for each user.

All VMs connected to the public Internet upon boot.

Create an isolated private network and connect VMs to them.

Custom Images - create, upload, register and then spawn VMs from custom Images





Pithos+ is the Virtual Storage service of ~okeanos global

Enables user to store files online, share them with friends and access them anytime through web, client or virtual machines:

50 GBs of online storage

share files and content with other Pithos+ users or friends

Simple and intuitive Web UI to upload and organize files

Pithos+ clients to sync local folders with Pithos+

Windows, ipad, macos, iphone client applications














Collaboration tools in eduGAINOkeanos - Pithos


Collaboration tools in eduGAINGeant Intranet

Intranet for all participants of GEANT project and NREN staff:

fosters collaboration

document sharing and management

information about Tasks and Activities, roadmaps, milestones

Community section fosters discussions

PLM - Product Management Portal

All NREN GEANT participants and NREN staff have acces via their IdP

NREN staff which are not participants have only read permisiona and write permision in Community section

GEANT participants whic are not from NREN also can acess via their IdP, thus enabling all other users of that IdP to have read rights


Collaboration tools in eduGAINSUNET Adobe Connect

Adobe® Connect™ is a web-based collaboration tool for participating in and hosting virtual meetings.

Sweden NREN conctracted the Adobe Connect for whole NREN

eduGAIN users can autheticate and participate at meetings. Can get higher priviledges in specific rooms.


Collaboration tools in eduGAINSUNET Adobe Connect


Collaboration tools in eduGAINSUNET Adobe Connect – SUNET users


Collaboration tools in eduGAINSUNET Adobe Connect - SUNET users






Collaboration tools in GEANTCloud services SA7 activity

Cloud services supported by SA7 activity:

Collaboration suites

File storage and synchronization services

Realtime communication, webconferencing services

Infrastructure as a Service

The SA7 Task 3 team created a document MS97 (MS7.3.1), describing the essential requirements for cloud service providers

Intellectual Property Rights and Ownership

Legal Aspects

Security

Continuity

Confidentiality

Communication

Billing

Technical Requirements

https://intranet.geant.net/SA7/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=/SA7/Shared%20Documents/Milestones/GN3plus_SA7_Requirements_v2_FINAL.docx&action=default


www.geant.net

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Thank you!