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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

Using course tools together


Depending on how your local institute has set up the worksite setup wizard, you will have the choice of extra tools on top of the ones available for the project sites. The following table describes some extra Core tools, not mentioned in the previous table, that are more specific to course sites.

Tool Name

Purpose

Common Name

Assignments

For posting, submitting, and grading assignment(s) online

sakai.assignment

Drop box

For private file sharing between the instructor and student

sakai.dropbox

Forums

Display forums and topics of a particular site

sakai.forums

Gradebook

For storing and computing assessment grades from Test & Quizzes or that are manually entered

sakai.gradebook.tool

Post'Em

For uploading the .csv formatted file to display feedback (such as comments, grades) to site participants

sakai.postem

Presentations

For showing and viewing slideshows of image collections from Resources

sakai.presentation

Roster

For viewing the site...