Web Conferencing & Scheduling for EVE-NG Learning Center
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:11 am
Hi EVE-NG Team,
Very surprised today to see homepage announcement of your 1st Hosted Service Partnership.
Congratulations!
Looked at the EVE-NG roadmap and noted that the Learning Center edition would greatly benefit from:
Full Web Conferencing functions:
- video/audio conferencing (instructor teaching a class of students who join lecture by video and/or audio)
- desktop sharing (instructor or student shares desktop (to see console sessions, labs, etc) to 1 or more viewers for troubleshooting, tutoring, demonstrations)
- chat system (messaging individuals, arbitrary groups, all students)
- shared whiteboard
- suggest looking at www.bigbluebutton.org open source project and consider integrating with EVE-NG. Very stable, capable package will save you from re-inventing entire wheel.
Integrated Web Reservation Calendar.
- see www.bookedscheduler.com open source project for inspiration.
- Assuming EVE-NG Learning Center is targeting classrooms and training organizations, there is a need to organize reservations for lab time.
- An online calendar that is integrated with EVE-NG user accounts and roles should control lab login access according to reserved time-slots.
- Additional feature would include a billing system that tracks user's actual lab usage versus pre-paid credits.
Integration with LDAP or OAuth
- Instructors hate wasting time managing user accounts
- using LDAP or OAuth to enable centralized account management would be a huge timesaver. Create account once and use it on many systems (linux/windows/apps/EVE-NG/etc); use Google Authenticator to manage logins/passwords/2-factor authentication)
These features would go a long way towards adding significant value to the Learning Center edition
Hope this is useful.
Gary.
Very surprised today to see homepage announcement of your 1st Hosted Service Partnership.
Congratulations!
Looked at the EVE-NG roadmap and noted that the Learning Center edition would greatly benefit from:
Full Web Conferencing functions:
- video/audio conferencing (instructor teaching a class of students who join lecture by video and/or audio)
- desktop sharing (instructor or student shares desktop (to see console sessions, labs, etc) to 1 or more viewers for troubleshooting, tutoring, demonstrations)
- chat system (messaging individuals, arbitrary groups, all students)
- shared whiteboard
- suggest looking at www.bigbluebutton.org open source project and consider integrating with EVE-NG. Very stable, capable package will save you from re-inventing entire wheel.
Integrated Web Reservation Calendar.
- see www.bookedscheduler.com open source project for inspiration.
- Assuming EVE-NG Learning Center is targeting classrooms and training organizations, there is a need to organize reservations for lab time.
- An online calendar that is integrated with EVE-NG user accounts and roles should control lab login access according to reserved time-slots.
- Additional feature would include a billing system that tracks user's actual lab usage versus pre-paid credits.
Integration with LDAP or OAuth
- Instructors hate wasting time managing user accounts
- using LDAP or OAuth to enable centralized account management would be a huge timesaver. Create account once and use it on many systems (linux/windows/apps/EVE-NG/etc); use Google Authenticator to manage logins/passwords/2-factor authentication)
These features would go a long way towards adding significant value to the Learning Center edition
Hope this is useful.
Gary.