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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

Managing project sites


To run through the workflow mentioned in this chapter, let's assume that you have made two user accounts, one named project_access and the other named project_maintain. If you want, before you log on you can provision your accounts via the New Account option on the left-hand side of the front page of Sakai. Each site has a membership of users. Each user can have one of a number of specific roles such as teacher or student. For a project site, you can either be a maintainer or simply have access rights. Each role gives you specific permissions. The maintainer of the site has many more powers than someone who is just going to use the site. Each tool has its own set of permissions. For example, in Announcements, by default the application allows the maintainer to send out announcements, but the tool does not allow a user in the access role to do this.

Note

Sakai is ultra-malleable. Administrators can create new site types with different roles. If you have been using an...