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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

Enterprise-level quality


High-quality Core tools are not born by chance. The Sakai community undertakes a variety of deliberate processes to turn a tool's aspirations of quality into reality. The processes that contribute to the quality of the end release include:

  • The Quality Assurance process

  • Maintenance releases

  • Automated testing

  • QA leads taking responsibility for problems

  • Automatic code analysis

In this section, we describe each of these processes and their role in creating a high-quality Sakai release.

The Quality Assurance process

As Quality Assurance (QA) is crucial to the success of the community, the Sakai Foundation plays an active role in orchestrating the testing of Sakai software. The Foundation employs a QA director whose role is to orchestrate a variety of different testing regimes. In December 2009, there was a transition in leadership from Pete Peterson of the University of California Davis to Alan Berg of the University of Amsterdam. In addition to employing the QA director,...