NEIT2011+OpenSpace3+B

Sean Dagony-Clark Riverdale Country School sdc@riverdale.edu
 * Portal & SSO SSOlutions**

who’s here? Ian Nixon, The Town School - inixon@townschool.org, @inixon Sean Dagony-Clark - Riverdale - sdc@riverdale.edu Anne Mare Rowley: Windward School: __arowley@windwardny.org__  @amrowley Dan Pereira: Masters School: dan@mastersny.org Emma Smith: Rodeph Sholom School: __esmith@rssnyc.org__ David Held: Poughkeepsie Day School: __dheld@poughkeepsieday.org__

Riverdale uses CampusEAI. Does not recommend. [|__my.riverdale.edu__]

Riverdale has contracted for a portal after moving from First Class Note:Any company that does not allow you enter the system before signing on i s a warning sign for users.

Authentication is through Active Directory and LDAP. Note: If there is power outage you will not have access to your information. They are looking at parallel host in the cloud with the campus as a backup. Currently Rackspace is a large company who provides this service.

Portal allows you to bring web content and tools together including blogs, messages, calendars, links and documents in one locations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SSO provides a single sign-on for users to all information, for instance email, calendar, Moodle, etc. For the school databases Riverdale is using ezproxy.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A company for SSO is Ping Indentity: Ping Connect

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Nixon <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Town School <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Final Site with Blackbaud as the SIS <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They allow you to purchase different modules rather than the full package. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FinalSite can provide SSO to Google Mail, Docs, Calendar & Moodle, but not others? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(WhippleHill SSO to blogs works well) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">users can customize their pages <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FinalSite search doesn’t work great -- must use tags <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Crisis Mode” - for urgent information, disables site and pops up a notice <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">using FinalSite for tech support requests

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">bad experience with Magic Hour

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows SAML servers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- do-it-yourself

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Schoolyard (vendor) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- front end on top of Drupal