Sakai OAE Deployment and Management

The Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) provides a unique collaboration system for university campuses: a social network that helps students discuss class materials, pursue research, communicate with faculty, and discover the risks and benefits of sharing personal information—all in a private, rather than public, forum. This example-driven guide will get you up to speed on various methods used to deploy, customize, and manage OAE, whether you’re an IT specialist in an educational institution, or an academic or instructional technologist.

Learn how to work with OAE’s source code to modify key areas such as profiles, courses, permissions, and content. You’ll soon adapt this network to support the culture and needs of your campus.

• Create research projects and online companions for lecture courses
• Learn about the range of OAE’s public and privacy settings
• Customize OAE’s look and feel, including the welcome screen, drop-down menus, and sign-up pages
• Connect to a local LDAP to work with accounts and authentication
• Install widgets to extend and customize OAE’s core functionality
• Integrate OAE with a web server and backend database
• Get a checklist for deploying your custom OAE to production

Max is the Technical Team Lead for enterprise academic services in ITS at New York University and an active member in the DIY technology communities in New York. She managed the Blackboard implementation at NYU from 2001 to 2009; in 2008 acting as the technical lead for an enterprise upgrade impacting 110,000 users. She led a Sakai CLE pilot (then known as Sakai v2) at NYU in 2007, and is the technical architect on NYU's launch of Sakai OAE in 2011. She served on the Sakai Product Council 2010-2011 and is a member of the Sakai OAE Technical Review Board. She received her M.S. in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and B.A. from Columbia University.