Identity management and portal developments provide the foundations on which the other technical aspects of this project are built, the most important of which is integration with institutional VLEs. This will be achieved through the creation of a generic dashboard concept with functionality identified as part of User Requirements (WP2) that can be used across the VLEs deployed within the LLN. VLE integration will require the ability to query the VLE about an individual, allowing the portal to display the correct content and provide a single ‘sign on’ mechanism from the portal to the VLE, removing the need/barrier of asking users to ‘sign in’ twice. The project will draw on experiences across a number of communities (JA-SIG, eSUP, Moodle) and partners (MoodleRooms and potentially, Unicon) to identify and implement best practice.

   

Integration with social networking tools will also be undertaken, starting with an investigation into which tools users would be interested in integrating. It is expected that integration will start with simple approaches such as RSS feeds before moving on to more complex activity using portlets.