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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 Administration tool set


In the demonstration version of Sakai, when you log in as an administrator, you have a workspace and an administration workspace, a citation administration tab, and a portfolio administration tab. The workspace and administration workspace are the same for the default admin account; however for new administrators, other than the default admin account, the workspace is the standard My Workspace that all the new users get the first time they log in. Admins have the potential to directly visit any site created through site tabs, because the admin user is a member of all the sites that are created.

The following table lists the tools and their uses. Notice that the common names of tools, such as Resources, are the same as those of the tools that the end users see. This is because some of the administrative worksite tools are the same as they are for users, but they have a different view due to the extra permissions. The tools such as Users, Aliases, Sites, Memory...