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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

Information sources


A handy source of information is the distribution lists, which are explained in detail in Chapter 16, Participating in the Sakai community. The lists contain a lot of questions and answers, many of which are relevant for issues associated with live deployments. There is a highly useable searchable index at http://www.nabble.com or http://old.nabble.com for long standing lists. On either of the front pages of Nabble or Old Nabble, there is a search form; if you type in the word Sakai, the returned results mention the various distribution lists followed by the most recent postings. Searching in this way, you will find more than 30,000 matching posts.

The development list is the highest volume list; it has embedded within its contents a lot of hard-earned experience. Clicking on the link Sakai should take you to a page similar to the one shown in the following figure:

By selecting a forum and then searching, you can see if anyone has asked the community directly for help...