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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

Configuring logging


When you start up the demonstration, logging goes to your command console, and many text flashes past your eyes. The motivation for this start-up verbosity is that if you have any misconfiguration, you will see their warnings early.

Within Sakai, the two most commonly used logging frameworks are Apache common logging (http://commons.apache.org/logging/) and Log4j (http://logging.apache.org/log4j). Despite the use of more than one framework, a Log4j configuration file manages all the logging within Sakai and allows for central control of all aspects of the logging. You can find code the relevant Log4j property file within the source at /kernel/log-configure/src/conf/log4j.properties. Any changes made to this file are only seen the next time Sakai starts up.

Log4j is a popular Java framework for logging application events. It has a reputation for efficiency. The framework separates the formatting and the destination of logging from the programming of the logging code. There...