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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

Common error messages


There are numerous ways that Sakai — as a web-based application — can fail, mostly leaving log file evidence that is ready for interpretation behind.

This section's purpose is to give you a glimpse of which types of issues can exist. It explores a small set of messages. The methodology that was used for discovery purposes was to simulate issues by deliberately breaking the demonstration in a number of interesting ways.

During the experiments, failures forced the consumption of CPU time, causing the test computer to heat up, generated many gigabytes of log file within a few seconds, and generally harried and stressed the server.

Java version

Maven compiles Sakai 2.7 or above with version 1.6 of Java. If you run the application with an old version of Java, such as version 1.5, the JVM will generate the following error message:

Unsupported major.minor version 50.0

50 is the version number Sun uses to represent Java 1.6!

Java is backwardly compatible. Therefore, if your system...