Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP)

Source: http://peoplesofttroubleshooting.blogspot.com/2016/06/student-
administration-integration-pack.html

1. Introduction

Oracles Enterprise Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP) offered in

Campus Solutions 9.0 provides an effective and cost-reliable way to integrate
manage administrative, teaching and learning systems on Campus. It is a web-
based interface for passing person, course, and enrollment data from PS Campus
Solutions to external systems, such as Moodle.

It integrates with following PS applications:

- Campus Solutions Student Administration, specifically Student Records

- Campus Community

- Integration Broker

- Campus Self-Service

By implementing SAIP, it allows us to move and update large amounts of academic

data from PS to external systems with minimal manual intervention.

2. SAIP Key Elements

Functional:

- Scoping and Association of classes

- Flexible section association, including cross-listed courses

- Cascading and overrideable defaults

Technical:

- Standard Based (IMS Learning Information Services)

- Web Services

- Batch and Real Time Integration

3. PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration Integration Pack Details

- Higher education institutions have traditionally implemented learning

management systems which allow instructors to manage their courses and
exchange information with students independently, providing minimal integration
with their student administrative systems. This approach requires institutions to
develop complex, customized integrations between systems to improve visibility
into curriculum and enrollment data. Customized integration cannot deliver the
highly-accessible, user-friendly online experience today's Web-savvy students
expect.

- SAIP delivers a flexible, scalable, Web services-based interface for sharing

academic data between the PeopleSoft Enterprise student information system and
standards-based learning management systems delivering unprecedented access to
information.

For example, when an administrator creates a course in the student system, the
interface passes information to the learning management system, which
automatically creates a corresponding course site or virtual learning space. As
students enroll in the course through PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions, their
enrollment information flows directly into the learning management system and
they receive all appropriate access privileges.

- This approach eliminates the need for re-entering data or re-synchronizing

the two systems with every update, particularly helpful for final grade reporting, a
previously disconnected process that required administrators to re-key grades into
the student information system.

- To build on existing knowledge, contribute to a community of users and

developers and ensure future maintainability and extensibility, Oracle has employed
open standards in SAIP and is participating in discussions to extend, modify or
create standards and specifications where none exist.
The product leverages the IMS Learning Information Services (LIS) standard
specification: http://www.imsglobal.org/es/index.html, which defines standard
information models and protocols for people, courses, enrollments and outcomes.

- Oracle has also partnered with Blackboard Inc., Desire2Learn Inc, Sakai and
Moodle to make integration with these learning management systems less costly,
more flexible and extensible to future technologies, enhancements and upgrades.
This provides customers with flexibility in vendor choice.

- Oracle and its partners plan to continue developing the Academic Enterprise
Solutions platform, eventually integrating and extending the broad range of systems
that support the education experience including student systems, learning
management, collaboration and communication, analytics, identity management,
library systems, parking and housing systems and more.

Snapshot Integration

A snapshot enables you to move the full set of relevant academic data from your
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system to the target external system when needed.
Snapshots are tolerant of lost messages or missed data objects. Any subsequent
snapshot transmittal sets the target system back in synchronization with the source
system.

Grade Import

When enabled, Grade Import allows faculty members to import final grades on a
per-course basis from your LMS into the PeopleSoft Student Records online grade
roster.

The IMS LIS specification allows for two different models of Outcomes integration: a
"pull" methodology in which one system (usually the final system of record, such as
the student information system) requests the grades from the system in grades
have initially been entered (such as a learning management system); and a "push"
methodology in which the system, in which the grades have initially been entered,
sends the grades to the final system of record based on an action within that initial
system. SAIP supports both of these models.
Event-Based Trigger Integration

Event-driven integration enables near real-time synchronization between your

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions systems and the external system. For example, if a
student successfully enrolls in a course in PeopleSoft Student Administration, and a
corresponding course site exists in your external system, that student is added in
near real time as a valid participant in the course site.

4. SAIP with Moodle

SAIP Integration with Moodle will help in providing near-real-time synchronization

between two systems. For example,

1. Creating a user/student in PS - Creates a user in Moodle.

2. Creating a Course in PS - Creates a course in Moodle.

3. Enrolling a student to a course in PS - Enrolls the student to course in Moodle.

Tools that support Moodle Integration

- Moodlerooms: The new tools developed by Moodlerooms take the integration

between SAIP and Moodle further, providing continuous synchronization of course,
student, and enrollment information between the two systems as opposed to having
to manually export and import the data--an extremely valuable function for
managing constant drop/adds during course enrollment periods each semester.
- Psydev : Psydevs LIS Gateway for Moodle is a certified Moodle LIS
implementation and can be used to integrate Moodle with any LIS-conformant
Student Information System.

http://www.psydev.com/blog/integrating-peoplesoft-campus-solutions-with-
moodle/#sthash.4DrEwK1X.dpuf

Psydevs video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Mtr5OE4llBc&feature=youtu.be