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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

Basic concepts


To fully communicate with the community requires an understanding of a number of basic concepts and associated terminology. These are based on the specific technologies used and Sakai's way of doing things. The concepts and terminology are explained in this section.

Internal ID

The first concept is the difference between a user's name, account, and internal ID. You will often come across the internal ID if you manage users and sites. In the previous screenshot of the User tool (the tool, that the administrator uses for resetting passwords or changing e-mail addresses), the tool displays the user's internal ID at the bottom.

The internal ID is a randomly generated string that is very unlikely to be repeated (perhaps once in twenty-thousand lifetimes of the universe). The internal ID points to a unique object within Sakai and is extremely user-unfriendly. The data design calls the user ID. The Enterprise ID (EID). The EID is unique throughout the enterprise and consistent for...