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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


Web services are one of the standard approaches to enterprise integration. The services allow for loose coupling with consuming applications. Lazy coupling implies that you can replace one service with another without the code in a client application needing to change.

Sakai has a basic set of SOAP-based web services available, which an administrator can turn on by setting webservices.allowlogin=true in the sakai/sakai.properties file. There are more services that you can deploy stored in the Contrib section of Sakai.

By placing text files containing a few lines of Java in the right location in Sakai, a programmer can create new web services rapidly. Many client-side libraries remove the need to understand the underlying complexities of the protocols involved.

The Entity Broker exposes managed data (entities) within Sakai, such as the representation of users and sites by RESTful web services. You can discover currently available services by visiting http://host/direct.

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