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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

The tools and structure of a Sakai site


You can think of Sakai as a framework that allows you to create the kind of online experience you want for your students. There is not a single way that a Sakai course site needs to function — it is ultimately up to you, with assistance from your Sakai user support team, to determine how the course is presented to the students online.

Still, there are a few common ways to structure courses, as well as common activities (such as explaining a homework assignment) that take place in most classrooms. This chapter addresses how to best use Sakai to support these structures and activities.

Not all Sakai sites are used for courses. In many institutions, it is common to find Sakai used for research work groups and administrative collaborations. In fact, at many institutions, there are more collaboration sites as they are called in the Sakai community than there are course sites. Therefore, these types of sites are included in the overview.

Many institutions...