Client and Server
Web-Based Course Management and Web Services
| Title: | Web-Based Course Management and Web Services (ID: CSD3185) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2004) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The architecture of a web-based course management tool that has been developed at IIT, Kharagpur and which manages the submission of assignments is discussed. Both the distributed architecture used for data storage and the client-server architecture supporting the web interface are described. Further developments of the tool making use of web-services are also described along with a discussion of the relevance of this for recent open standards and future learning management systems. | | View this resource: | |
A Solution to the Buy or Build Conundrum--Carnegie Mellon and Blackboard Building Blocks
| Title: | A Solution to the Buy or Build Conundrum--Carnegie Mellon and Blackboard Building Blocks (ID: NLI0220) | | Author(s): | Daniel Cane (Blackboard, Inc.) and Joel M. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2002) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | At Carnegie Mellon University, there are several examples of faculty who have developed high quality educational applications who, in order to successfully deploy their work, had to develop versions of their own user management systems to deliver their software. The time required to implement these management features was time lost to testing and improving the significant part of their work: the applications designed to improve student learning.
Carnegie Mellon, in collaboration with Blackboard, will attempt to address this issue by leveraging Blackboard's Building Blocks initiative, which allows individual faculty members, institutions, or third-party commercial developers to create system extensions that can plug into the Blackboard platform. As Carnegie Mellon continues to explore the possibilities of this modular architecture, a number of ideas have emerged on how to leverage Building Blocks to enhance the core Blackboard learning environment at Carnegie Mellon, including creating a notification client that would notify student when a faculty member or fellow student has posted new information in a Blackboard course site as well as integrating a virtual chemistry lab for homework into the on-line quizzing system. The Blackboard Building Blocks initiative allows Carnegie Mellon to "buy" the fundamental backbone—Blackboard and "build" the educationally sound applications needed to plug into that backbone. This mix of "buy" and "build" seems an important new and viable model for educational technology and allows for the kind of innovation in education that only faculty (at all levels of education) can provide. | | View this resource: | |
Metadata Integration
| Title: | Metadata Integration (ID: CMR0034) | | Author(s): | Barbara Hope (University of Maryland) and Maribeth Mattingly (University of Maryland) | | Origin: | Presented at CUMREC Conferences (Archives) (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The University of Maryland's Office of Data Administration (ODA) was charged with identifying institutional data elements, defining them, indicating who had responsibility for them, and educating the campus community in their use. ODA designed a single source metadata application that enabled the office to leverage the comprehensive "data about data" and make it readily available to users. A Web-based application, using a Java applet for easy browser access, enables the office to catalog standardized data elements, their definitions, examples, supplementary definitions, keywords, data subsets, transaction system data, and associated code sets. This session will detail the process of metadata integration, including access using the campus client server tool and access for non-warehouse users via a data definition search tool on a campus Web site. | | View this resource: | |
Transforming Host and Client/Server Applications to the Internet
| Title: | Transforming Host and Client/Server Applications to the Internet (ID: CMR9942) | | Author(s): | Jason Popillion (Iowa State University) | | Origin: | Presented at CUMREC Conferences (Archives) (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The Iowa State University (ISU) Administrative Data Processing (ADP) Center provides computer services and support to most departments at Iowa State. Two of these departments are the ISU Alumni Association and the ISU Foundation. For these departments the ADP Center has successfully implemented a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Internet Alumni system, which supplements an existing powerful client server application. This application retrieves data from an external database and dynamically displays the inquired information back to the requesting client. The clients who use the application are generally impressed with the user-friendly interface, as well as the response time in retrieving data from the external database over the Internet. It is our feeling that the success of this application proves the ability to develop robust database driven applications over the Internet making client needs of the future available today. | | View this resource: | |
A Case Study in Client/Server Design: ASU West Student Prospect Tracking
| Title: | A Case Study in Client/Server Design: ASU West Student Prospect Tracking (ID: CMR9801) | | Author(s): | Katherine J. Ranes (Arizona State University) | | Origin: | Presented at CUMREC Conferences (Archives) (1998) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Arizona State University recognized a need for a campus-wide student tracking system. Information about recruitment efforts of prospective students was kept in differing systems in each college and these local applications were not easily connected to the enterprise Student Information System or the Data Warehouse. This paper shares the design decisions the Student Tracking Development Team made as they built a client/server application to track student prospects. Key topics included in this paper are graphical user interface design, location of business rules, data base design, reuse, tool choice, customer acceptance, performance and data use, and security. | | View this resource: | |
The Proceedings of the 1993 CAUSE Annual Conference
| Title: | The Proceedings of the 1993 CAUSE Annual Conference (ID: CNC9300) | | Origin: | Presented at CAUSE Conferences (Archives) (1993) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The 1993 CAUSE Annual Conference offered presentations in six tracks: Leadership During Times of Change; Leveraging People with Technology; The Impact of Quality; Managing in a Client/Server Environment; Optimizing the Infrastructure; Information Delivery to Support the Institutional Mission. This Web site provides access to most of the papers in electronic form (generally text and Word files). | | View this resource: | |
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