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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

Existing web services


Sakai includes by default most community-requested web services, and there are a few more services in the contributed section of the source code repository. This section describes the currently available services and the next section explains an example use, creating a new user.

Recapping terminology

In general, developers write web services for other developers' code to connect to (consume). Therefore, terminology can be confusing. Recapping from the last chapter: in Sakai, a realm is a set of roles and their associated permissions. When you create a site, a copy is made from a specific realm template for that particular site type. The permissions can be then modified for the roles in the site, and members added to the site with any of the specific roles. Internally, Sakai uses Authz Groups to keep track of the groups of users. An Authz Group is an authorization group (a group of users, each with a role and a set of permissions of functions assigned to each role). A...