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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

Creating tools


This section looks at building tools from the source code.

Building tools

To give an interested reader some basic Java knowledge, we present to you a head start, an approach to downloading and deploying the tool source code.

Please note that this chapter makes the basic assumption that you have previously installed Maven, Subversion, and Java, and have a connection to the Internet.

A majority of tools build in the same way. First, this section describes the build recipe in words and then in actions for the Question and Answer tool. For a developer, a working recipe is first to retrieve the source code and then to build the demonstration version of the code. After that, you can deploy the demonstration package. The important point to realize is that you need the source code and binary of your server on the same machine.

Next, download the source code of the particular tool in question, placing it inside the root directory of the source code for Sakai, build the tool, and finally...