Michael Stephens is now using WordPress MU to host his classes online, and that opening page is really sweet. It’s hardly the first time somebody’s used a blog to host course content, but I like where he’s going with it. We’re significantly expanding our use of WordPress at Plymouth, and using it to replace WebCT/Blackboard [...]
Posted September 9, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: academic technology, BlackBoard, courseware, education, higher ed, innovative uses of WordPress, michael stephens, WebCT, wordpress, WordPressMU. 4 Comments.
CAS — Central Authentication Service — has no logo, but it’s still cool. Heterogeneous environments like mine offer hundreds of different online services or applications that each need to authenticate the user. Instead of throwing our passwords around like confetti, CAS allows those applications to identify their users based on session information managed by the [...]
Posted September 3, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: CAS, central authentication service, identity management, idm, plugin, wordpress, WordPressMU. One Comment.
