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| Thursday, July 13, 2006: 10:00 AM-10:45 AM | |||
| Michigan B Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) | |||
| G-2: Building for Change: Flexible Integration Solutions in a Dynamic Environment | |||
| Detailed Description: | In Fall 2005, the University of Alberta brought in a WebCT Solutions Architect to help analyze their course, template, and enrollment work flows. The University wanted to streamline many of the manual procedures into more automated processes and needed to be adaptable to change from all sources of data. Learn about the University’s experiences, implementation so far, and how their strategies can help your institution build solutions while coping with changes along the way. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Integrating the campus: Technical solutions and extended uses | ||
| Target Audience: | System Administrators, Senior Administrators, E-learning Managers | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | In Fall 2005, the University of Alberta brought in a WebCT Solutions Architect to help analyze our course, template, and enrollment work flows. We wanted to streamline many of the manual procedures into more automated processes and needed to be adaptable to change from all sources of data. In our analysis of our external student information sources, centralized computing accounts, current faculty teaching practices, and the 3+ years of existing WebCT Vista data, we realized that a generic solution to automate our manual processes would not be possible. A more flexible solution needed to be found that would allow us to separate code modules responsible for data access from modules responsible for implementing business logic (such as loading student enrollment information in a WebCT section). In this way, we could handle a change in data access (like moving from an xml based data delivery to a database) without impacting the business logic that carries out an automated task. This session will cover our experiences, implementation so far, and how our strategies can help other institutions build solutions while coping with changes along the way. | ||
| Session Leader: | Fletcher Nichol University of Alberta | ||
| Co-presenters: | Bob Boufford University of Alberta Hardave Riar University of Alberta | ||
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