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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

The Apache web server


The Apache web server is the most popular web server used on the Internet. This indicates that a large proportion of all Internet-related system administrators have encountered and configured Apache before. According to netcraft (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html), Apache dominates the market place with over 60% of overall market share. The server is stable, secure, highly configurable, and proven to scale to even the most demanding and acidic environment imaginable. Urban folklore mentions reliable services forgotten and running on very antique computers only to be found wanting when major earthquakes hit.

Sakai is highly scalable, especially behind load balancers with or without Apache server(s) in front of the Tomcat server. Therefore, the need to deploy the web server as part of your infrastructure is a matter of taste. The advantages of deploying Apache normally outweigh the extra complexities of the configuration and any extra learning...