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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

Summary


In Sakai, you can create project, course, and portfolio sites from the Worksite Setup tool. Within a site, you can manage the site itself via the Site Info tool. There are two types of role within a project: the access and maintainer roles. The access role has fewer permissions than the maintainer's. Publishing at the last minute enables you to get your site just right.

Online help is your first stop for current information about a specific tool or point of confusion.

Sakai is changing rapidly; expect the tool mix to vary.

Using multiple browsers allows you to play out different roles at the same time.

As an instructor in a course, you can use the Section Info tool to manipulate sections. As a student, you can join or switch sections using the Section Info tool.

Tools such as Resources and Announcements are group-aware.

Tools such as Announcements, Resources, and Gradebooks are section-aware.

Over time, expect more tools to become section-aware.

In the next chapter, you will read about the...