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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

Tool-specific help


The online help tool is your best friend. It will be an extensive source of information as you work your way through this book. Sakai is evolving rapidly, and there will be subtle changes that emerge after publication. Luckily, the developers and Sakai user support staff keep the online help relevant, and focus the text on the action needed to produce results. Each tool has its own section, called on by using the tool's internal name. For example, the Sakai application knows the Announcements tool as sakai.announcements. Most of the time, when there are context-sensitive links to help, the internal name is used as part of the link. To review the text for announcements within the unmodified demonstration, browse the site at http://localhost:8080/portal/help/main?help=sakai.announcements. For other hosts and/or port numbers, simply replace the localhost:8080. Throughout the rest of the book, the relevant URLs will be mentioned. For example, without the host or port parts...