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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

Chapter 12. Understanding Common Error Messages

The smooth running of a Sakai deployment and users' perception of its quality depends on how fast problems are resolved. The sooner you deal with an issue, the quicker it is resolved, and the lesser the disturbance to an end user. Being honest and admitting the fact that there are errors does not imply that Sakai is buggy, just that it is designed from the bottom up to help system administrators to act fast.

Things can go wrong: a piston blown in a car engine, lack of petrol to get you to your destination, or without warning, a hanging office application. I have not interacted with software yet that is perfect. There is no strategy to remove every single defect from a given software product. The primitive computer used for the first lunar landings had as few as 10,000 lines of machine code to control it. The complexity of the task was high, but the number of lines that errors could hide in was low. A modern operating system contains tens of...