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...