Author: aucadmin

Tim Bell, Trinity College, University of MelbournePart of XW12

As Trinity College’s use of iPads has grown from a small pilot study, to a medium sized cohort of students, and now a forecast 600 students and 100 staff this year, we have steadily improved how we manage the configuration of those iPads.  The presentation will briefly recap the evolution of iPad configuration management at Trinity, and look at existing solutions that are available.  However, the majority of the presentation will cover our Django-based web application.  It allows IT staff to prepare a configuration profile using iPhone Configuration Utility and upload it to the web app; students then authenticate to the web app with their LDAP credentials, and download a profile directly on their iPad over wireless, customised with their own account settings for email, wireless authentication, etc.  The presentation will include how to set up the Open Source web app for use in your own institution, as well as a quick demonstration of the app.

The technical fields the presentation will cover are the structure of an iOS configuration profile, Django and its use on a Linux or Mac OS X server, and the configuration installation process on iOS.  The intended audience is IT administrators with responsibility for iOS device configuration management for staff or students.

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Dale Hills, Waikato UniversityPart of XW12

Development of the goodthink project was driven by the evolving necessity to provide appropriate teaching and learning technology to staff and students in an increasingly BYOD environment. Most tertiary institutions have been very good at providing formal, face-to-face teaching technology in lecture theaters and classrooms. However, less attention and consideration has been given to the need for technology in the informal spaces where students congregate and can work collaboratively with each other outside the traditional classroom. This area of research is known as ‘informal learning space design’ and it is possible to provide the infrastructure and technology in any hallway, foyer, cafe or library where there is space, furniture and access to power & wireless Internet access. Our desire to provide this technology was driven by some of the positive outcomes and installations that other Universities have achieved. However, we were dismayed by the high cost of entry to some of the current costly proprietary systems that are available now. As a result, we reflected on the tools and services already available on campus and began to imagine how we might provide an informal, collaborative environment for our community.

Goodthink was prototyped on an Apple Mac Mini using exclusively open source components and existing operating system frameworks (10.7+). The goodthink system provides a wireless network for clients to connect to, along with a web interface and captive portal to route new connections to the collaborative environment (currently powered by Google Apps but other collaborative solutions are available). Connected users are free to interact with the goodthink central screen, open collaborative documents on their own devices and connect to other web resources via the goodthink wireless network (as restrictions permit).  The goal is to produce a system functionally equivalent to commercial environments such as Teamspot, using exclusively free components.

We propose a live assembly of a working goodthink collaborative environment in a hands on workshop.  Dale would explain the rationale for the development of goodthink and the pedagogical uses of the prototype, summarize some research into collaborative technologies in academia and then explain each component of the system as attendees assembles a working mockup.  Attendees would then be invited to join the collaborative environment remotely from their own devices.

Goodthink Project Web Site

Jon Rhoades & Peter Tonoli, Part of XW12
University of Melbourne

Documents on IOS devices, the legalities, practicalities & pitfalls.

iOS devices are now ubiquitous in our organisations, and there is a clear business need for our users to access their documents on theses devices.  We will be exploring how users can access their documents using popular syncing services and directly accessing your existing storage infrastructure.  We also look at the risks and implications of storing data on external company servers.

This presentation is suitable for all attendees who deal with iOS devices.

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Andrew Galka, University of WollongongPart of XW12

This session will discuss strategies that the University of Wollongong employed to design an operating environment that immediately responds to new OS releases whether they be major updates or hardware specific builds.

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Adam Ware, Queensland University of TechnologyPart of XW12

This presentation is on Integration of IOS/OSX Devices into an enterprise environment using Profile Manager found in OSX Lion Server and Casper Management Suite. Topics covered include:

•  Basics of Profile Manager and Lion Server.
• Using alternatives like Casper Management Suite to standardise and deploy IOS and OSX devices
• Setup of profiles for standardisation across a fleet of IOS devices
• Logistics of device management.
• Apple store/App management and deployment.
• Push mobile profiles across devices.
• Integration with Microsoft AD

Intended Audience is anyone support or deployment staff interested in managing larger number of iOS devices across a network.

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Adam Reed, Australian National University

This hands on session will cover numerous aspect of building and maintaining a SOE/MOE including understanding OS X, software packaging, basic scripting and the command line. In addition you will see and use various tools that make managing a SOE easier. Finally you will gain some practical ideas that you can utilise in your environment. This session is a repeat from 2011.

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