CANS is licensed under the Educational Community License (1.0) version of the open-source license.
2.0 is the third public release of the Context-aware Activity Notification System (CANS). This version offers several new administrative features and drastically improves the configuration requirements of CANS.
In addition, a set of Sakai Tools and Services are also available. These tools and services include the CANS Administrator Tool and the CANS WatchDogService and the new CANS Reporter Tool.
The CANS Administrator Tool is a Sakai Tool for starting and monitoring the CANS WatchDogService.
The WatchDogService is a Sakai Service that uses a Java event listener to monitor Sakai events and send those events, with needed parameters, to the CANS Server.
The CANS Reporter tool is a brand new tool that allows site owners to configure the CANS notification preferences for their Sakai Site.
Columbia, October 11 -- LANIT Consulting Inc. announced their intentions to integrate CANS into LANIT’s industry leading electronic portfolio product, Foliotek. The integration of CANS will provide Foliotek customers with awareness capabilities that have been shown to boost online collaboration.
“Portfolios are dynamic, so it makes sense to allow Foliotek students to promote awareness of their accomplishments among a chosen network of peers and collaborators. CANS enables students to push portfolio notifications to anyone, and also allows authorized faculty to pull portfolio notifications for students they review”, said Chris Miller, President of LANIT. “The integration of CANS with Foliotek promises to increase the sense of connection between a student and their portfolio. Since CANS is also integrated with popular course management systems, the option of obtaining a single notification for course activity and portfolio activity will be powerful – It brings the portfolio closer to the action”.
The latest CANS User Experience prototypes from the University of Missouri - Columbia are now available.
Please REVIEW and COMMENT on these design efforts. In each section there is a brief explanation, artifacts and ways to leave comments, suggestions and questions. Feel free to invite colleagues or students to review our work and offer their commentary. Thanks in advance for your interest and help with this project.
On Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 2:45 PM, Paul Turner will talk about how many University faculty and students are using Sakai, for what purposes, and what are their priorities for improving Sakai for teaching, learning and research collaboration. A look at the current "state of usage" for Sakai based on community survey data.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 3:40 PM, we will demonstrate a new Sakai tool that allows instructors and students to create custom notification reporters and show how Sakai sites can implement CANS 2.0.
CANS is licensed under the Educational Community License (1.0) version of the open-source license.
