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Our highly experienced team of architectural consultants and developers are ready to support your team in ensuring the best technical platform for your current and long term needs.

Our best of breed analysis of technology solutions includes those important characteristics often overlooked including operational, manageability, sustainable and affordability.

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Open Source LMS Support CommonNeed is a strong supporter of open source solutions and strongly believe it to be a foundational element to innovation in the sector. Our architects and developers have been working with a number of open source projects in the education market and have specialist skills in customizing and integrating these projects with your current systems. Our expertise with integrating these systems into your current architecture includes:

• Single Sign On (SSO) for seamless connectivity to your identity infrastructure
• Portal Channels for delivery through your institution portal platform using open standards
• Student Information Systems to provide a complete student life-cycle without disruption
• Management and Reporting platforms providing a dashboard view of the LMS activities

Tools Development The CommonNeed philosophy is that innovation in teaching & learning will occur on the edge of an LMS where few constraints are imposed by the engine itself. We are driving towards a goal of allowing any tool supporting teaching to be deployed on any open source, commercial or hybrid platform.

CommonNeed is an active participant in the IMS Integrated Learning Environments (TI version 2) and Common Cartridge specifications in an effort to achieve the goal or true portability with the open standards community.

LMS Hosting Common Need will host any of the following Open Source LMS platforms for you and will work with you to integrate them back into your student registration and management reporting infrastructure to provide a seamless user experience for your institution user community.

Our secure data center is ready to host your mission critical LMS services and integrate them with your current support systems.

We are ready to integrate any of these platforms either hosted or deployed at your institution with your Student Information System including SCT Banner.

If you are still evaluating your distance learning needs then check out our 'free' sandbox evaluation environment.

System Architecture Services A solid architecture is the backbone of any long term technology platform and CommonNeed participates in many open architectural groups to to help raise awareness in the importance of good architecture and also to share ideas and best practices with peers and the wider community.

The most important advantage to educational institutions is the lowering of the cost of ownership while providing for flexibility to innovate.