introduction to kuali student for boston college poc

open source administration software for education

next generation student system

Introduction to Kuali Student for Boston College POC

Norman Wright, President/CEO Wright Communications, Inc

open source administration software for educationWright Communications, Inc

What we’re hoping to cover….

• Today– General Introduction to Kuali Student

• History, Goals, Concepts, Impacts– Technical Introduction

• Stack• Developer environment

– Tools– Source Tree/Project Structure

• Installing the Developer Workbench• Service Contracts• Other Documentation

– Installing the Developer Workbench– Simple Example Dictionary Configuration changes

• Tomorrow– Configuration Project setup– Types of Configuration

• TBD…– Data Mapping– KS Loading Tools– Integration with BC systems

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Who is Norm Wright?

• 30 Years as a Programmer in Student Systems• Part of Kuali Student before it was Kuali

Student• Not a trainer – Never gave this training before• horrible speller

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History….

• “what's behind me is not important!”– Raul Julia from Gumball Rally

– Except when it helps you understand the present

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The four forces that shape Kuali Student

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Community Source

Service Oriented

Architecture

Rules as 1st Class Citizens

High Level Entities

Concierge User Centric


The fifth force that shapes Kuali Student

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Community Source

Service Oriented

Architecture

Rules as 1st Class Citizens

High Level EntitiesKuali

Brand

Concierge User Centric


next generation student system

Community Source

Originally focus was on Open Source

What’s the difference?

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Impact of Community Source Force

• 80/20 Goal for the Application

• Of the 20% functionality not met by application– 10% from configuration– 10% from institutional enhancements

• Some Enhancements expected to be contributed back


Questions

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High Level Entities

• Learning Unit– Learning Results

• Time Unit • Organization• Person

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Richard Spencer’s Learning Unit

• A “learning unit number” is like a SKU... It can be a course; single lecture in a course; 15 minute student presentation in a course, participation in community service, any activity that the student wants to include on a formal or co-curricular transcript. We can also have: learning results, learning plans, learning resources. (from Richard Spencer’s presentation)

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What is the impact of Learning Units?

• Blog Post I wrote for Kuali Student insider– 3 years ago

• A Course is a Course– of Course of Course…


http://kualistudent.blogspot.com/2009/08/ks-insider-36.html


Learning Unit Spectrum

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More Specific


Time Unit Model – Duration & Season(ality)

Course Time Periods• Academic Year

– Fall Term• Fall Mini-mester 1• Fall Mini-mester 2

– Winter Term– Spring Term– Summer Term

Program Time Periods• Four Year Program

– Freshman Year• 1st Term Freshman • 2nd Semester Freshman

– Sophomore Year– Junior Year– Senior Year

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Org Model – Hierarchy and Relationships

Main HierarchyProvost

School Humanities

English History Math

Curriculum HierarchySenate Curriculum Committee

English

English Curriculum Committee

Math Curriculum Committee

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Break…..

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Service Oriented Architecture



KS SOA and OKI OSIDS


www.okiproject.org

http://www.okiproject.org/


Kuali Student SOA -- Goals

1. Interoperability2. Configurability

3. Usability


Kuali Student Interoperability

• Many to Many - Definition From OKI

Service Contract

Module A

Module B

Module C

Impl A

Impl B

Mock Impl

http://www.okiproject.org/view/html/site/oki/node/2916


Top Down Approach

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Service ContractDefinition on WIKI Java Interface

WSDL

Scraper Expresses as

Java

CXF

PHP Interface????

Some Future Transformer


Kuali Student SOA - Configurability

• Types and States• Dictionary

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Learning Unit

Credit Course

Program(Major,

Minor, etc)

Type Definition

Class I Service

Class II Service


SOA Impact on project

• Source Tree– API projects– Impl projects– UI projects

• Architectural Stack– Class I services– Class II Services

• Consistency

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Questions

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Rules as first class citizens

R1 – Curriculum Management• Requisite Rules (prereq, co-req, restrictions, etc)• Program Entrance Requirements• Program Graduation Requirements

R2 -- Registration• Eligibility and Registration Priority Rules• GPA Calculation Rules• Credit Application Rules• Tuition and Fees

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Rules operate on Sets

• The list of courses that fulfill the writing requirement

• Upper level 500 Courses

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Rules as 1st class citizens impact

• “Can’t find field for…”• Rules Execution is not done – just authoring• Able to do Impact Analysis

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Kuali Brand – RICE Integration

• Identity (KIM)•Workflow (KEW)

Service Bus (KSB)

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Person…… TBD…. ?????

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Person Service(s) KIM Service(s)


Kuali Student Rice Impact

• Special KS Rice modules for the integration• All the KEW functionality available • KIM pluggable Identity Service works• Cannot run KS without Rice

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Questions/The End

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