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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

Chapter 4. My First Site

There are some brilliant, yet ecologically unsound car advertisements where you can almost breathe the fresh air and feel the water splattering across the side window as you traverse through muddy nature in its full glory. You may get that same feeling of unrestricted freedom and flexibility when you create a site with Sakai for the first time. The original planners have designed site creation for minimum fuss and lots of ad hoc interaction. Tools such as Wiki, Resources, Announcements, and Podcasts are quite intuitive and enable researchers, teaching professionals, and interest groups to get together and do work online with little Sakai-orientated learning effort.

This chapter explains how you can create a project or course site without publishing it immediately. Avoiding publishing until the last minute enables you to experiment with the toolset balance without others seeing your noble failures. It also enables you to place your content and nudge it until perfection...