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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.
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Sakai CLE Courseware Management
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Terminology
3
Index

Chapter 2. Feet First: Running the Demo

The demonstration version of Sakai allows administrators, teachers, students, and project workers to experiment with the core features of Sakai and many of the most popular tools.

It also allows evaluators to explore how Sakai can be used to create a rich learning environment. Administrators and implementers alike can easily gain an appreciation of the issues that may affect a production installation of Sakai.

The demonstration is a supportive sandbox in which to learn, because it has more tools enabled than are normally available in a production environment. The demonstration includes almost everything you need to run the program and does not require extensive effort to install. The demonstration is a self-contained environment that includes the application server Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org) and Hypersonic SQL (http://hsqldb.org/), an in-memory database that stores changes in text files. The only thing required to run the demo is a copy of...

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