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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

Using Core tools in Sakai 2.6


Not all Sakai Core tools are a part of every user's experience with Sakai. In addition to the common end-user tools that are easily found in most Sakai sites, a number of administrative tools have reached the Core status. In addition, Sakai's ePortfolio system, the bundle of tools collectively known as Open Source Portfolio (OSP), is also a part of the Enterprise bundle. Some organizations deploy Sakai without OSP tools and some organizations deploy OSP without using the other tools in Sakai. The following table lists the end user tools for Sakai 2.6:

Tool

Common Name

Purpose

Announcements

sakai.announcements

For the posting of current, time-critical information

Assignments

sakai.assignment.grades

For posting, submitting, and grading assignment(s) online

Calendar Summary

sakai.summary.calendar

For calendar summary information

Chat Room

sakai.chat

For real-time conversations in written form

Drop Box

sakai.dropbox

For private file...