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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

Introducing Portfolios


Due to the relative complexity of its setup, this book has not covered the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) site type yet. An ePortfolio is a set of web pages, perhaps containing attachments, which show who you are and what you have accomplished. Institutions use ePortfolios in numerous ways: they may serve as student resumes or can be used to assess the education history of instructors, teaching assistants, or students.

The majority of use cases center around the student. Portfolios have the potential to make the flow of students between different institutions and into employment easier, by communicating the skill sets and experience in straightforward online structures.

The application designers have designed the Portfolio site from a series of wizards, forms, and resources. A form is the electronic version of a paper form and allows inputs of type text, date, integer (whole numbers), decimal, or complex entities, such as telephone numbers or e-mail addresses. A portfolio...