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The idea for project glue came out of the Course Exchange project. The key requirement of Course Exchange is that a student at one district/college be allowed to enroll in a class offered at another district/college from a single use interface Each
Each district/college uses different Student Information Systems, Student Directories and Master Data sets to support their own student population. Project Glue was born out of the necessity for colleges to share course and student information from disparate systems using a common set of API interfaces, "College Adaptors" are District/College specific implementations of the standard API interfaces.
In reality, there x major Student information systems used across the CCC system including
- Banner
- PeopleSoft
- Colleague
Banner, PeopleSoft and Colleague adaptors have been implemented and colleges using these systems can used the pre-created adaptors with only configuration changes.
Colleges that have implemented custom SIS will need to develop custom College Adaptors.