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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

sakai.properties


sakai/sakai.properties is the main text file that configures how Sakai works. Anthony Atkin's Config Viewer tool (http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/CNFV/) lists over 300 properties that you can use within this file. These properties impact on numerous aspects of how a particular Sakai instance works, and they lead to a wide range of potential customizations. From the URLs of welcome messages to mail routing, locations of DNS servers, and file content, this global configuration file is central to the smooth running of your local infrastructure. The Sakai Admin Guide (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/qgA5Ag) delivers an excellent overview of the mainstream properties and the effects of their changes. It is a necessary read for any budding administrator.

The key features of the sakai/sakai.properties file are:

  • Changes are not seen live. You will have to restart any servers that you have updated.

  • The file structure follows the Java property file conventions...