The
following is an alphabetical list of vendors offering portal products and/or
services that may be suitable for higher education institutions.
The
information contained in this document was paraphrased primarily from the
websites of the vendors, information obtained from higher education
institutions, and conference material. Because no attempt was made to collect
further information directly from vendors beyond their publicly available
postings, the reader should not assume the information presented is complete.
The amount of technical information publicly available from vendors varied. The
information contained herein was initially compiled by the University of Alaska Office of Information Technology
Services in July 2003 and updated in
September 2003 to reflect SCT’s newly released Luminis III.
Feedback
from the viewer is welcome. Contact shtm@alaska.edu.
www.blackboard.com/highered/ps/index.htm
The
Blackboard Community Portal System Release 6, licensed in conjunction
with the Blackboard Learning System, is scalable and serves as a foundation for
expanded and accelerated growth and system customization with an open platform
architecture.
Offerings:
Common Areas—offering readily accessible online locations for individuals to
meet and share ideas; Centralized Content Management—facilitating knowledge
management and teamwork through centralized document management and
idea-sharing; Collaboration and Exchange—providing tools to facilitate
communication and information sharing between community members and to support;
Delegated content management—enabling administrators to define access rights
for content owners throughout the institution; Centralized system-level
control—reducing the amount of hardware, software, and human resources required
to deliver institution-wide Web services.
Blackboard
and Datatel have agreed to offer higher education customers an integrated
version of the Community Portal System with Datatel's Colleague (Enterprise
Resource Planning system). The Blackboard/Datatel system provides a unified
front-end for teaching, learning, and campus administration, with the
Blackboard platform serving as the common user interface. With the system, students
can use one username and password to conduct campus business via a single,
online destination, including administrative functions such as enrollment,
course registration, and checking grades.
To
write Portal System Building Blocks, the Software Developer Kit (SDK) and the
ability to write Java code is needed.
The SDK is a package containing Java APIs and documentation that allow
you to write code that interfaces with the Blackboard platform. White paper with portal feature details is
available.
Example
Institutions: Over 250 higher education
institutions are using Blackboard/Datatel portal.
Partners: Datatel, HP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SCT, Sun.
Timecruiser
is known for its Web community calendaring technology. TCC bills its Campus Cruiser as a
complete Web-based higher education enterprise portal. With it, universities would have the ability
to provide student services, enhance and improve institutional management and
facilitate academic administration and learning.
CampusCruiser
Custom Edition is in the works, featuring: Communication and Collaboration
Tools, including multiple POP 3/IMAP Retrieval, E-mail Forwarding, Group
Calendars, Member Discussion Areas, Message Boards, file share and
transfer; Course Management Tools
including immediate access to information about their courses, departments, clubs,
club members and campus calendar; Administrative Features including distributed Administrative
Privileges; Security including LDAP Server Authentication to provide a way to
use an external LDAP database to authenticate CampusCruiser users and a bridge
to single login with other systems.
TCC
also offers SchoolCruiser, a
Web-based K-12 enterprise portal designed to facilitate the school-to-home
connection. SchoolCruiser is a
gateway to interactive Web-based tools that facilitate communication and
collaboration between students, parents, teachers and administrators.
Example
Institutions: Widener University, Ocean
County College, Berkeley College, Montgomery County Community College, North
Carolina Community College System, Texas State Technical College (discontinued
spring 2003).
Partners: Datatel and Sun.
http://www.campuseai.org/portalsolution.asp
CampusEAI, a non-profit
corporation formerly known as Campus Athena, offers a collaborative portal
solution, CampusEAI Oracle Portal Solution which is designed exclusively
for higher education and is a community source middleware, or Enterprise
Application Integration framework, (EAI) that facilitates real-time enterprise
systems integration, including content management systems, library systems,
alumni systems, bookstores, dining services systems, facilities management
systems, admissions systems and e-commerce systems.
CampusEAI Oracle Portal
Solution provides single-sign-on, extends the functionality of legacy systems
(e.g. Student Information Systems such as Oracle-based, Peoplesoft, SCT,
Datatel, and integrates current (e.g. Email, Calendaring, Learning Management,
such as Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege, Alumni Systems) and future Internet
applications (e.g. Video on Demand).
CampusEAI Oracle Portal
Solution also integrates with any application server (e.g. Oracle9iAS Portal,
uPortal, Sun ONE, IBM), giving the institutions the power to select
best-of-breed without being locked into a single vendor solution. CampusEAI also
integrates in to an institution's existing authentication system (e.g.
Kerberos, LDAP) for single-sign-on functionality into the portal.
CampusEAI’s product is
licensed through a community source-code model. This model give universities
access to the entire CampusEAI source code which allows universities to jointly
modify and continuously develop the product. By working with academic
institution customers as product development partners, rather than as a
commercial company selling an off-the-shelf product, CampusEAI has built
relationships with the academic community. CampusEAI community source code is
managed by the Higher Education Knowledge and Technology Exchange (HEKATE).
In August 2003, CampusEAI made awards to universities under its CampusEAI Oracle
Portal Grant Program to underwrite all external costs associated with the
implementation of their portal system.
Recipiets receive all software and project management costs necessary to
install and operate CampusEAI Oracle Portal, ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 in software and services, depending on
the size of the school. (Note: the
University of Alaska was selected as a recipient, but subsequently declined the
grant.)
Example
Institutions: CampusEAI has produced a product white paper
describing its implementation at Case Western Reserve University beginning in
March 2002.
Datatel’s
stated strategy is to provide clients with the flexibility to choose the portal
solution that best meets their needs, rather than have an exclusive portal
strategy. Datatel’s open portal
solutions allow universities to integrate Colleague, their Enterprise
Resource Planning system (Student, Financial, Human Resource, and Institutional
Advancement Systems) and WebAdvisor for Students (which provides
students with real-time information about their class schedules, grades,
account information, financial aid, class registration, tuition and fee
payments).
Datatel
integrates with portal and e-learning offerings from Blackboard, CampusCruiser,
Unicon, and WebCT Campus Edition course management solutions. Blackboard provides the Learning Management
System solution. Datatel provides dynamic integration between
Colleague/WebAdvisor built on the IMS Enterprise standards. Datatel has also
extended its partnership agreement to provide integration into Blackboard’s Community
Portal. Timecruiser provides a
comprehensive Application Service Provider (ASP) portal solution, CampusCruiser, that links the entire college
community.
Datatel
offers dynamic integration between Colleague/WebAdvisor and the CampusCruiser
portal. Unicon provides Academus, an
online campus that integrates portal, learning, and content management, built
on the uPortal framework. Datatel and UNICON have signed a partnership
agreement to deliver dynamic integration between Colleague/WebAdvisor and Academus.
WebCT provides the Campus Edition course management solution. Datatel provides
dynamic integration between Colleague/WebAdvisor built using the IMS Enterprise
standards.
Datatel’s
open architecture is built upon standard-based technologies such as Java, XML
and IMS standards.
Example
Institutions: Client list not available.
Partners: Blackboard, WebCT, CampusCruiser, Unicon,
HP, Sun.
e-College
http://www.ecollege.com/products/padmin_ps.learn
eCollege
provides integrated technology and service solutions that support online
educational programs. The company supports some of the fastest growing and
largest online degree, certificate and professional development programs and
serves public and private universities, career colleges, community colleges,
school districts, and state Departments of Education.
The
Digital Campus eCollege Portal System has enhanced communication and
community features, allowing a variety of options from which to build an
institution's online presence. It includes: a Calendar Package; the Community
Package, which allows users to build clubs or study groups for interaction
outside of class; the Web Access Package, which provides convenience of Web
services to campus users; and an Alumni Package, which allows graduates to stay
in touch with alumni for chapter development and fundraising.
The
eCollege Open Platform Initiative is built around the principle of multi-vendor
system interoperability. Through a commitment to technologies such as
SOAP/XML-based web services and standards such as IMS and SCORM, Open Platform
Initiative facilitates greater integration with other enterprise-wide systems
and complementary applications. eCollege has deployed Web services using XML
for seamless integration to third-party applications and has completed the
first phase of its open API for SIS integration.
Example
Institutions: Client list not available.
Partners: List not available.
Jenzabar
provides a single sign on open system Web-based intranet application allowing
the user to pull relevant information from registration systems, professors'
Web pages, the Internet, e-mail systems, and other school-specific resources.
Jenzabar's
offerings include: a Learning/Course
Management System, Web-based enterprise software with student, institutional advancement,
human resources, and financial applications; e-learning solutions; and a higher
education enterprise information portal. Their suite of offerings is called
Internet Campus Solution, including its Campus Portal.
The
portal enables one to display, screen, and sort all the necessary and important
day-to-day functions and work flow and place task lists and campus
announcements into users' calendars. Intelligent features alert users about
items of immediate attention and response, such as an assignment's due date. A
user can plug in their hand-held personal digital assistant and cell phone.
Jenzabar’s
Constituent Relationship Management software provides access to complete
student profiles - without having to move from system to system. It treats the
admissions, financial aid, and academic records departments as a single entity.
Jenzabar
acquired Campus America, which owned Poise, CARS, Quodata, and CMDS.
Example Institutions: Claremont University Consortium, Lincoln Memorial University, Shenandoah University, Schreiner University, Shaw University, Trinity Western University.
Partners: HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Yahoo.
Oracle
http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/ias/portal/index.html?content.html
Oracle
has five product lines: Database;
Application Server; Collaboration Suite; Developer Suite; and E-Business Suite.
The Oracle9iAS Portal is part of the Application Server offering. More than
3,500 customers, of which the vast majority are not higher education
institutions, are using an Oracle portal as their IT infrastructure for secure
online collaboration, information delivery, application access, and process
automation.
Oracle9iAS
Portal Release 2 is a browser-based environment for the development,
deployment, administration, and configuration of enterprise class portals.
Oracle9iAS Portal incorporates a portal-building framework with self-service
publishing features to create and manage the information accessed within the
portal. A wide variety of portal
interfaces and configurations are possible, from a simple departmental-level
publishing portal to an Internet-accessible portal that serves both customers
and employees.
Integration
between Oracle9i AS and Oracle9i database is designed to provide a solution
that can scale to an enterprise-class audience. New OmniPortlet subcomponent
enables power users to publish data from diverse data sources quickly and
easily using a variety of layouts.
Oracle10gAS
Portal was introduced in September 2003. To learn about it, go to Oracle’s
Portal Center at the address below and scroll down to features. In addition, it has been reported that
Orcale is developing a campus portal.
http://portalcenter.oracle.com/servlet/page?_pageid=356&_dad=ops&_schema=OPSTUDIO
Example
Institutions: University of Aberdeen, Boston College, Case Western Reserve
University, Edmonds Community College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Golden Gate University, Houston
Community College System, Kuwait University, Lansing Community College,
National Institute of Education, Queensland University, Washington State
University.
Partners: List not available.
PeopleSoft
Campus Portal is an ad-free Webtop wherein students can register for
classes, faculty can post grades, staff can check to-do lists, and alumni can
sign up for events. By combining its enterprise portal with the appropriate
Portal Pack, users can create a Website that delivers anytime, anywhere
information that is tailored to the individual requirements of all
constituents.
Campus
Portal is prebuilt to speed implementation and allows customization, links
different islands of information together, and enables the user to present
content—along with email and data from third parties—in a way that is
meaningful to each user.
Campus
Portal integrates with Directory Interface, Customer Relations Management
Portal Pack, Enterprise Performance Management Portal Pack, Financials Portal Pack, and Human Resources
Management Portal Pack.
A
Portal Pack is a collection of pre-built application objects called pagelets. A
pagelet is a small “doorway” to information on the portal’s home page. Each
pagelet represents a specific piece of functionality or information,
Pagelets deliver application-specific alerts, functionality, analytics,
status gages, and other content to the portal.
Example Institutions: California State University Fresno, San Marcos…couldn’t readily find others.
http://www.plumtree.com/products/platform/
http://www.plumtree.com/applications/industries/education/
The Plumtree Corporate
Portal employees a Web services architecture to bring together search
engines, documents, applications and users from diverse systems, and also
provides a platform for securely managing these services. Plumtree currently offers Version 5.
The Oblix NetPoint Access
System, which powers the Plumtree Single Sign-On Server, provides Web access
control and single sign-on across multiple Web resources, applications, and DNS
domains. It combines centralized policy creation with decentralized management
and enforcement. Combining Netpoint
with Plumtree’s Authentication Web Service (AWS) for LDAP completes the
Plumtree Single Sign-On Server.
Plumtree’s Content Server
allows publishing across the enterprise web. Content Server is written in Java,
and runs on a Java application server. Content Server stores document
attachments in a file system connected to Content Server via HTTP and SOAP, and
all metadata and templates in a relational database.
Plumtree is an independent
Enterprise Web vendor, and states it can span rival platforms and integration
applications better than the vendors of those systems. The portal integrates application resources
from other systems and delivers new services as Plumtree portlets. Portlets are
Enterprise Web components operating on separate computers that users can
interact with directly via the portal. Among its portlet offerings are
Documentum 4i, IMAP, Peoplesoft, and SAP.
Examples Institutions:
Loma Linda University, Ministry of Education, Luxembourg, Pepperdine
University, Graziadio School of Business, Royal Roads University, University of
Chicago Graduate School of Business, University of Des Moines, University of
Pittsburgh, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Victoria Junior
College, Washington D.C. Public Schools.
Partners:
Documentum, IBM, Mircosoft, Sun.
SCT, which also owns the Banner product,
offers the SCT Luminis Platform III Portal. The platform includes a suite of enterprise applications that
streamline communications, simplify e-learning and create customized forums
that enable campus groups to interact and collaborate online.
Luminis Platform III is
based on open standards. Therefore, it can be extended , adding value to an
institution’s existing legacy systems and future technology choices while
significantly streamlining user management. Luminis III components include the
infrastructure, applications, and a portal.
Infrastructure The Luminis Platform III infrastructure manages
users, directory information, security, and authentication services to deliver
a seamless and secure online experience to campus constituents. Specific
infrastructure components include:
• Single sign-on environment
• Event processing
• Software Development Kits
• Windows 2000 support
• Solaris 2.8 support
• Established standards and
communications protocols
• SunONE Web server and more
Applications Luminis
includes enterprise applications adapted specifically for higher education and
integrated at both the data and application level. These integrated enterprise
applications streamline communications, simplify eLearning, and create
customized forums that enable campus groups to interact and collaborate online.
Applications include:
• Web-based email (Email message search capability, LDAP directory search capability, Email portal channel, SunONE messaging server)
• Web-based calendar functionality (Automatically
generated course calendars, Personal calendars, Conflict resolution,
Synchronization of calendar events and tasks with handheld devices that support
Palm and Windows CE operating systems, SunONE calendar server)
• Targeted announcement utilities (Personal
announcements, Campus announcements, Notify and Smart Events for SCT Banner and
SCT Plus student information systems, Targeted announcements portal channel)
• Course Studio (Course targeted announcements, Course message boards, Course chat
• Course photo albums/rosters, Course calendar, Course file sharing, Ability to delegate authority over course resources to class participants beyond professor)
• Group Studio (Hierarchical group, Public and
restricted groups, Administrator blocking, Role-based index and search, Group
targeted announcements, Group message boards, Group photo albums/rosters, Group
calendar, Group chat, Group file
sharing, Group Maker, which provides the ability to generate ad hoc groups from
student information system attributes)
• Web-based administration
console
Portal Features The
portal features include those provided only to SCT Luminis customers as well as
features provided by the JA-SIG uPortal release 2.1. Specific portal features
include:
• Channelized content and
layout
• Publish-and-subscribe
channel model
• End-user customization
• Institutional ability to personalize portal content to the role, interests, and needs of individual end users
• Ability to create and publish Custom Java channels,
Image channels, Inline frame channels, Rich Site Summary (RSS) channels, Simple
XML transformation channels, Web proxy channels, CPIP Web proxy channels, CPIP
inline frame
Portal features provided
only in Platform III include:
• Out-of-the-box content and application channels,
Email channel, Calendar channel, Personal announcements channel, Campus
announcements channel, Administrative services channel, My Courses channel, My
Headlines channel
• Aggregated layout
management
• Channel archive support
• Ability to render channels
under SSL encryption
Luminis Platform III is
included in three bundled offerings from the Luminis product family: SCT
Luminis Basic, SCT Luminis Foundation, and SCT Luminis Premier.
SCT Luminis Basic provides
Web platform and data integration technologies to institutions seeking an entry
point into a digital campus, and meets the needs of institutions that want to
implement an integrated, customizable campus portal without a content
management system.
SCT Luminis Foundation
offers Web platform, integration, and content management features and delivers
a flexible foundation for any digital campus. Luminis Foundation incorporates
the following components:
• Luminis Platform III
• Luminis Content Management
Starter Edition
Luminis Premier includes the
following components:
• Luminis Platform III
• Enterprise integration
solution featuring Luminis Data Integration technologies
• Luminis Content Management
Enterprise Edition
Documentation and sample
code elements of the SDKs will be completed after the Platform III release.
Example Institutions: Appalachian State University, Augusta
State University, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Clarion
University of Pennsylvania, Coastal Georgia Community College, College
of William and Mary, Drexel
University, East Georgia College, Georgia College & State University,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Perimeter College, Georgia Southern
University, Georgia Southwestern State University, Georgia State University,
Lehigh University, Macon State College, Medical College of Georgia, Middle
Georgia College, North Georgia College & State University, Northeastern
University, Notre Dame, Pepperdine University, Savannah College of Art and
Design, Savannah State University, South Georgia College, Southern Alberta
Institute of Technology, State University of West Georgia, University of Hawaii
System Office, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Valdosta State
University, Weber State University, Webster
University, Western Governors
University. It has been reported that over a hundred institutions in
total have purchased a Luminis license and are in various stages of development
and production (including the University of Alaska as of October 1, 2003).
Partners:
Blackboard, Documentum, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, WebCT.
SINAPSE
SINAPSE does not claim to be a portal, although it has portal
attributes. It began about two years ago, evolving from the University of
Oklahoma Sooner’s Information Network (SIN). The UO programming director of SIN
theorized that the popular and entertaining student services that SIN developed
would greatly benefit other campuses and students.
SINAPSE is a free, scalable,
customizable, open source portable suite of student-focused online tools. It is
not designed to be a portal, or a complete enterprise portal solution, although
it does have portal services. Its main purpose is to give students an on-line,
interactive, changing community. It is
written in PHP and was developed by students at UO, along with partner schools,
to facilitate communication and collaboration among students, faculty and the
entire campus community.
SINAPSE is a modular
technical framework of student-centered services that can be modified, with
minimal technical expertise, to suit the specialized needs of any school or
organization. Also, with an on-site student support team, SINAPSE addresses the
needs of user education, campus promotion, and student team building, which
will lead to a highly trafficked site that will represent a university's
individual culture and identity.
Developers appear wed to PHP
and not planning to convert it to uPortal channels. uPortal developers believe
they have most of SINAPSE channels in the uPortal community, including
calendar, content management, student elections, message boards, news, survey,
classifieds and weather. There are
other uPortal implementations SINAPSE does not have. According to reviewers, SINAPSE’s
strong points seem to be that it's "light weight" and marketed
directly to student organizations.
SINAPSE may consider exposing their channels as remote portlets under
WSRP when it becomes a standard.
The creator’s vision is to
see thousands of SINAPSE powered online communities working together, sharing
code, ideas, support strategies and learning experiences.
Example
Institutions: Developing Sites and
Teams: American University, California University in Pennsylvania, University
of Texas, Duke University, Baylor University, University of California – Davis,
Arizona State University, University of California – Berkeley, Kansas State
University, Howard University, University of Kentucky, University of
Washington, Troy State University, Oklahoma State University – Okmulgee.
Partners: Contributor Institutions: The University of
Oklahoma, Saint Louis University, Oklahoma State University, Eastern Virginia
Medical School.
UNICON,
claiming application development expertise and to have created the first
Enterprise Information Portal solution, Academus, is based on the
uPortal open standards framework developed by JA-SIG. The developer of much of the uPortal technology is Interactive
Business Solutions (IBS), which UNICON recently acquired, giving them expertise
in native uPortal product development and services.
The Academus suite is scalable and supports enterprise integration
between an institution's information management system and its learning and
course management system. The Academus
portal solution provides its users with personalized access to resources,
instruction and institutional services, integrating a wide range of
communication and interactions across the campus community.
Features
include Address Book, Bookmarks, Briefcase, My Notes, Personal Calendar,
WebmailCampus Announcements, Campus Resources, Classifieds,
Discussion
Forums, Help, News, Notifications, Survey.
Example Institutions: Arizona State University, Roanoke College.
uPortal
http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/
Member
institutions of Java Architecture Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) collaborated
on the development of uPortal. The code itself available as a reference
implementation to any JA-SIG member at no cost. The developers see an institutional portal as an abridged and
customized version of the institutional Web presence - a
"pocket-sized" version of the campus Web. Portal technology adds
"customization" and "community" to the campus Web presence.
Customization allows each user to define a unique and personal view of the
campus Web. Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build
relationships among campus constituencies.
uPortal
is a framework that provides Java programmers with the classes, interfaces, XML
data files and XSL stylesheets they need to develop a customized portal. JA-SIG
maintains that a portal, in order to be truly useful, can't something taken out
of a box and installed; it has to be something that is customized for the needs
of an institution. Some portal "solutions" are actually third party
packages that a vendor of a non-Java, non-portal product acquired in order to
enter the portal market without doing any R & D.
uPortal
is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE. It is a collaborative
development project with the effort shared among several of the JA-SIG
members. uPortal will run on any
platform that has a Java 2 implementation available for it. JA-SIG members are
running uPortal for development and deployment purposes on a number of
different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux on 3 different
architectures and MacOS X.
Version
2.1.2., features groups management, composite groups support, statistics
gathering, remote channels, web proxy enhancements, locking and caching
services. Version 2.1.3 is available
and 2.2 is due October 2003.
The
JA-SIG Clearinghouse facilitates collaboration among Java developers, allowing
contributors to list Java projects, documents, procedures and tools that are
available to share.
Example Institutions: Live and developing sites include California Polytechnic State University, Columbia University, Cornell
University, Deakin
University, Denison
University, Illinois
State University, Northeastern
University, Northern
Arizona University, Princeton
University, Rutgers
University, Syracuse
University, Texas
Tech University, University
of California, Irvine, University
of Delaware, University
of Kansas Medical Center, University of New Mexico, Virginia Tech, Fullerton College, Gannon
University, Iowa
State University, University
of Virginia, Yale
University.
Partners: JA-SIG has no partners, but in addition to
universities, its membership includes many corporations and individuals (http://www.ja-sig.org/memb-inst.html).
Analysts
believe Vignette occupies a unique position as the leading content management
specialist in the commercial portal marketplace, offering content, integration,
and collaboration products. To marry
content and content delivery, Vignette acquired Epicentric last August. Subsequently, they unveiled their V7 package
of Web services applications focused on content management and workflow
process, and a portal and content delivery division to put real-time software
applications on the enterprise workstation.
In
bringing together portals with its suite of content management and other
application services, Vignette is providing an environment for adaptive
enterprise Web applications, supporting its vision for "the real-time
enterprise."
Vignette
Application Portal runs on leading J2EE-compliant application server
platforms—including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere—to support JSP and Java
Servlet execution, as well as to exploit the performance and scalability
features inherent within these servers. The portal also supports application
server clustering for increased performance and virtually automatic failover in
mission-critical computing environments.
Vignette’s
Content Management provides applications, workflows, and templates to manage
content, sites, content types and objects, and deploy and deliver information.
Example
Institutions: Its customers are primarily business, but include Ball State
University, University of Miami, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WebCT
WebCT,
a leading producer of course management systems, does not offer a portal
product. Rather their Professional Services Team integrates WebCT courses with
an existing campus portal. The Team evaluates portal integration needs,
recommends integration strategies, and performs custom programming work to
enable an integration solution.
WebCT
offers uPortal Integration by creating a custom channel to uPortal that
displays WebCT course lists and course announcements, and as well as providing
single sign-on from uPortal to WebCT Campus Edition.
WebCT
can enable integration that will allow students to log into Campus Pipeline and
immediately access their WebCT courses without having to re-authenticate.
WebCT
has also been integrated with a wide range of custom and homegrown portals.
Examples
Institutions: WebCT does not note what
product or service the following schools employ. Auburn University Montgomery, Bates College,
Bellevue
Community College, Brown University, California State University, Chico, Chemeketa Community College, Claremont
McKenna College,
Colorado State
University, Drexel University, Johnson Co. Community College
Johns Hopkins
University, Kent State University, Marshall University, Purdue University, SUNY
Albany, Ohio State University, University of Akron, University of Alberta,
University of British Columbia, University of California, Berkeley
University of
Central Florida, University of Maryland, University of North Texas
University
System of Georgia, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Utah State University.
Partners: Datatel, HP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SCT (also listed as an
investor), Sun.