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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

Summary


The administrator workspace is the online location for the majority of the daily administration chores. Here you can manipulate resources, create and modify sites and user populations, and even see through the eyes of those users.

Sakai is a Java-based application and therefore it is a distinct advantage for an administrator to have basic Java programming experience.

The MOTD tool is simple to use, but should be seen in the wider context of organizational policy. The messages sent from this tool have high impact, as they appear on the front page of your application.

A realm is a set of roles with permissions. When an administrator creates a site, a user, or a group, the running application uses a specific realm template to copy the default values for each.

The most difficult-to-use tools are Realms and Sites. This is due to their flexibility and the complexity of the underlying concepts. The Realms tool enables modification or creation of new templates. The Sites tool is for the creation...