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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

Creating flashcards


Most tools have similar structures and once you have learned a few basics, learning other tools is easier. The online help explains how to perform functions like adding and deleting an item, such as a forum or an announcement. The help also has accurate descriptions of each tool and the benefit of being the most up-to-date source of user support.

Reading the help is like looking at an old television picture close up: you see the dots, but the overall picture may be harder to discern. However, before you can truly understand the overall picture, you need to have some idea of what a Sakai tool is. To build an understanding of the relationship between tools, you can create a set of flashcards, one per tool.

An example flashcard editor that runs on the same platforms as Java is JFlash (http://flashcards.sourceforge.net/). JFlash is a simple editor and viewer that runs on any machine with Java 1.5. For an example of learning flow, after reviewing flashcards, each with an...