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...