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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


Many tools in the wild are not included in the Enterprise Code set. The source code of these tools is stored, in part, in the contributed section of the Sakai Foundation's Subversion repository (https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib).

JForum, Melete, and Mneme, from Etudes (http://etudes.org), are of the highest quality, and deliver significant functionality.

Unlike the core tools in Sakai, Contrib tools vary in quality. Checking out what others have deployed and performing your own vigorous testing lowers the production risks. I included in this chapter toolsets currently in place at the Universities of Michigan and Cape Town as a strong hint.

The SASH and Config Viewer tools are for administers.

If neither others, nor I have mentioned any tool that you like in this book or in the Sakai confluence Wiki, I would advise that you update Confluence with pertinent information.

Individuals or small groups of individuals have written many of the tools; therefore, if you like a specific tool...