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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Overview of this book

Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means to manage users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy features and tools, which make it uniquely the Learning system of the present as well as the future.This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the previous book, Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools and features, this book delivers everything you need to know.Written by Alan Berg, a Sakai fellow and former Quality Assurance Director of the Sakai Foundation and Ian Dolphin the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation with significant contributions from the Sakai community, Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide is a comprehensive study of how Sakai CLE should be used, managed, and maintained, with real world examples and practical explanations.The book opens with an overview of Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. Next, the underlying structures and tools are described. In using Sakai for Teaching and Collaboration, there is a detailed discussion of how to structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students, from creating course sites to understanding their use in different organizations around the world.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Sakai CLE Courseware Management
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Terminology
Index

Help is your friend


The Sakai instance administrator has their own set of tools for manipulating sites, users, membership resources, and so on; teachers, students, and project members have other sets of tools. As Sakai evolves, new tools come into play and older tools are phased out.

Universities such as Indiana University (https://oncourse.iu.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/!gateway-500) have large bodies of helpful online material. However, the most immediate and up-to-date source of information is Sakai's own context-sensitive help system. You'll find a question mark icon in each tool's work area; click on it and the searchable context-sensitive help appears, as shown in the next screenshot:

Each tool registers its help file with a central service that is kept up-to-date with the most recent changes in Sakai and its tools. If you discover errors, technical or non-technical and/or see limitations in the help text, then contributions from the community are always encouraged.

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