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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

The Resources tool


The Resources tool is the most-used tool in Sakai. Think of it as your online storage container — a location where you can safely place your education-related files. You can use the Resources tool as a part of My WorkSpace or as a part of any given site you are a member of.

Each resource has its own unique URL, which you can copy by right-clicking (Control-clicking on a Macintosh) on your web browser. You can use the link in wiki documents and e-mail messages, and the resource can be made public for others to use by editing its properties from within the Resource tool.

By default, resources in My WorkSpace are hidden from others and are not public. They cannot be configured to restrict the access to a given interest group, such as a membership of a course. However, you can restrict resources, in sites, to sections or groups, or you can make them available to the members of the whole site.

As long as you use the same user account in Sakai, the URL for a given resource in...