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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


Planet Sakai is an excellent blog aggregator to keep in contact with the Sakai buzz.

Sakai is built up on top of third-party frameworks, such as Spring and Hibernate. For the inquisitive, it is worth reading up on which frameworks are used and what capabilities exist. For developers, this may help avoid reinventing the wheel. For administrators, it may provide the background knowledge to support pinpointing issues.

Sakai was written in Java. You can tune the Java Virtual Machine and enable Java Management Extensions via the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. The Sakai Foundation has listed the settings for production servers in JIRA. These settings act as excellent initial values for any new deployment.

The Apache web server is useful for delivering static content, rewriting URLs, and for a standard source of logs for log parsing. It has many modules that can extend its functionality, such as mod_deflate, which compresses network traffic.

Course migration is possible, but with some limitations...