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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

Migration


Note

Section author, Zach Thomas, is a software engineer who has contributed to Sakai since its first public release in June of 2004. He is a Sakai Fellow, speaks at conferences on topics relating to Sakai adoption, and runs a Sakai consulting business named Aeroplane Software. In a previous life, he co-founded a modestly famous folk punk rock band named Okkervil River. He lives in San Marcos, Texas, with his wife and two little boys.

Migrating course content

If you wish to migrate site content from an LMS, such as Blackboard, to Sakai or vice versa, then you should be aware of the current strengths and limitations of Sakai. In this section, Zach Thomas, who built most of the migration software, discusses the process.

A bit of history

Sakai has a checkered past when it comes to content migration. In the very early days, the core development team established a mechanism for exporting the content of a worksite's tools. This feature is available in the Administration Workspace and is...