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  Questionmark Connectors Integrating with JSR-168 Compliant Portals

Integrating Questionmark Perception with JSR-168 Compliant Portals

Overview
Questionmark’s support for JSR 168 will allow customers to display portlets within any JSR 168 compliant portal product, enabling integration of online assessments with other key enterprise systems. Users of the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system may now download example code for providing participant and administrator access to Perception via a JSR-168 compliant portal.

JSR 168 is a standard programming specification that makes enterprise applications more accessible to end users through a portal of choice. A “portlet” is a pluggable user interface component of that is displayed in a web portal. Both open-source and commercially produced portal servers have embraced the JSR 168 standard, which enables interoperability between portlets and portals.



How it Works
Users of the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system may download example code for providing participant and administrator access to Perception via a JSR-168 compliant portal. The example code is distributed in source and compiled form, and is intended to provide a starting point for developers wishing to integrate JSR-168 compliant systems with Questionmark Perception.

The example code enables development of a "Perception Portlet" that:

  • displays for participants a list of scheduled assessments
  • enables participants to launch assessments from within the portlet
  • provides administrators single sign-on access to Perception's assessment scheduling, reporting and management functions

Web portals make it easy to combine Perception with other best-of-breed applications to create customised information and activity centres to suit many different types of institutions and situations. Once they have logged on to the portal, participants can move freely from one activity to another. Now learning events and assessments can be part of someone’s daily routine without having to log into a specialist system.



Benefits
  • Participants can view and launch scheduled assessments from within portal
  • Administrators have single sign-on access via portal to Perception’s administrative functions
  • Efficient integration of Perception's assessment delivery, scheduling, reporting and browser-based authoring functions with other enterprise applications


Technical Requirements
  • Questionmark Perception Server 4.2 or higher
  • A JSR-168 compliant portal system, such as uPortal 2.5.1
  • The Java SDK 1.4 or later (1.5 recommended)
  • Downloads of example code in both source and compiled form are available for 30-day evaluation in Questionmark Communities. See links below.

Support Information: Questionmark has made available example code in both source and compiled form. Note that this is distributed not as supported product code, but as template code from which you can build your own interface. The code and processes included and made available as parts of this project are provided “as is” and Questionmark does guarantee compatibility with or support for such developments.



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  Reference Material:
 
PDF document
Best Practice Guide: Using Single Sign-On with Questionmark Perception
 
PDF document
Best Practice Guide: Integrating with Questionmark Perception
 
Assessment Glossary - Definitions of JSR-168, Portals, Portlets and more....

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